On 12/24/22 01:21, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 3:59 AM David Christensen
<dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote:
On 12/23/22 23:16, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 10:29 PM David Christensen wrote:
[...]
When I boot the flash drive in a Dell Precision 3630 Tower that has
Windows 11 Pro installed on the internal NVMe drive, the internal PCIe
NVMe drive is not visible to Linux:
[...]
The M.2 2280 NVMe SSD and a slim DVD +/-RW drive are the only storage
devices in the computer. AFAICT there are no Optane devices.
According to https://www.dell.com/us/dfb/p/precision-3630-workstation/pd,
the machine has Optane.
"Expandable and flexible: Scalable storage featuring SATA, SAS and PCIe
NVMe SSDs can be configured for up to 28TB delivering top performance
for complex projects. Plus, Intel® Optane™ Memory massively boosts your
system’s responsiveness while keeping high capacity storage costs to a
minimum."
I believe that is marketing speak for "the computer supports Optane
Memory", not "every machine comes with Optane Memory".
I believe that's the pseudo-RAID you are seeing in the UEFI setup screen.
Maybe you can see the physical drives using raid utilities.
My expectation is that if I install two HDD's in the two lower HDD bays
and connect them to the two black SATA connectors on the motherboard, I
should be able to use the motherboard firmware Setup utility to
configure the drives as non-RAID, RAID0, RAID1, and possibly JBOD. If I
install a third drive in the front HDD bay, connect it to the
motherboard white SATA connector, remove the DVD+/-RW drive, get a
suitable 2.5" HDD bracket, install a 2.5" HDD, and connect it to the
motherboard blue SATA connector, I might be able to configure the drives
as RAID10.
David
