The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/aywwts4 on 2024-08-26 13:35:26.
Turned my X570 into a homeserver/NAS doing research but a lot of the advice here is years old and mostly points to PCI 2.0 LSI 9200-8i type cards.
Already maxed out 8 SATA ports with 6x 22TB drives in a raid Z2, but the addiction demands more.
My Define 7 XL can comfortably fit about 14 additional drives. but I can always get creative with zip ties and E-SATA...
- My motherboard has an M2 slot open,
- 2 x PCI Express 4.0 x16 slots (Runs in 16x and 4x)
- 3 x PCI Express 4.0 x1 Slots
- (One of the following (one is running the OS): - 1 x Hyper M.2 Socket Gen4x4 (M2_1), supports M Key type 2230/2242/2260/2280 M.2 PCI Express module up to (64 Gb/s) - 1 x Hyper M.2 Socket Gen4x4 (M2_2), supports M Key type 2230/2242/2260/2280/22110 M.2 SATA3 6.0 Gb/s module and M.2 PC
Looking at SATA expansion slots, most of them look ancient, wayyy too many sata lanes on 1x PCI-E 2.0 seems to be the default, and navigating the ebay-old-server-flea-market is not intuitive.
Trying to find anything to take advantage of modern PCI i came across this, is this a terrible hack?
Put this in the top 4.0 x16 slot...
https://www.newegg.com/asus-model-hyper-m-2-x16-card-v2-pci-express-to-4-x-m-2/p/N82E16815293043
PCI Express 3.0 x16 Supports four additional NVMe M.2, which I then fill with https://www.newegg.com/orico-pm2ts6-bp-pci-express-to-m-2-card/p/17Z-0003-00027 which turns each M2 slot into 6x SATA slots...
Then this in the 4x slot
https://www.newegg.com/p/2S7-09HH-00YG5
With the goal of spacing things out/not maxing out any of this so I don't saturate any lanes when everything is reading/writing at once. There may be software raid0 SSDs in the mix as well.
It seems like these use a lot more modern PCI standards and lanes than a lot of alternatives? Or I could be totally stupid here.