Adding An NVMe M.2 SSD drive to a Dell PowerEdge R820

The processor and memory specs on my Dell PowerEdge R820 running VMWare ESXi 7 for my Homelab are completely fine. Unfortunately, the storage performance was lacking...
PCIe to NVMe M.2 SSD Card Adapter - https://amzn.to/330Jjet
Alternative Adapter - https://amzn.to/2NWdBv7

So, I used a generic $14 PCIe card that allowed me to use an existing M.2 SSD drive as a VMWare datastore.

IOPs went from 1K to 54K and power consumption went down by 40W.

Although, I was fortunate enough to have an existing SSD laying around, other homelabbers have had success with the following drives:

Samsung 970 EVO 500GB - https://amzn.to/3bwc2vo
Samsung 970 EVO 1TB - https://amzn.to/2R2agIU
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