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I'm confused about what I'm seeing. That machine has just 4 lanes of PCIE gen3. No details at all about the "daughterboards" / carrierboards for the M.2 drives.
by gigel82 3y ago
I'm confused about what I'm seeing. That machine has just 4 lanes of PCIE gen3. No details at all about the "daughterboards" / carrierboards for the M.2 drives.
Also near the end he's talking about 100Mb/s write speeds, which is worse than what I'm getting with SATA HDDs (of the spinning rust variety).
I have a whole bunch of 1Tb NVMe drives I pulled from servers and would really love an inexpensive solution to chuck them all in for a NAS, and this article's title gave me hope, but I don't think it's what I'm looking for.
- 1MachineElf 3y agoEven if the read speeds are limited by the drive interface, for a NAS, 100Mb/s decent for the most common denominating factor - a gigabit link.
- ehutch79 3y agoIt has a 2.5gb link, per the article
- rasz 3y agoIts a clickbait article from the "better than raspberry pi" variety
- CameronNemo 3y agoIt probably gives each drive 1 pcie gen2 lane? Or maybe two drives get a gen3 lane and the other four get gen2... I dunno. There is very little details on how he made it happen in the text, that is to be sure.
- geerlingguy 3y agoThis kit uses SATA, relying on one of those M.2 6-port SATA adapters for the split-out, and a custom PCB sandwich that routes the SATA signals to three sets of two slots.