"very little processing is offloaded to the host server's processor"
? why is any offloaded to the host?
seems odd to me.
There's fast PCIe flash and then there's Micron's just-announced P320h PCIe flash. PCIe flash is for servers needing minimal I/O delays in fetching data to memory. Instead of having that data on hard disk drives, which have millisecond delivery times, the servers can stir on the cards attached to the PCIe bus and have the data …
Hehe - Yeah you could, but you'd need mega space, and like you say - power to drive it - which means more heat, and more fans etc.
Does anyone know the answer to my original Q? Does this appear to the PC BIOS as a drive / array or not?
I want to know, as my palm reader told me I'm going to win the Euro-Millions this week and I've no reason not to believe her.