If I was to pickup an Icy Dock for 4x NVMe U.2 drives, what PCIe x16 card should I be looking at? This is x570 platform so a single x16 is all I'm getting (I have bifurcation). I'm new to U.2 drives, other than my single optane on a PCIe adapter in ym gaming rig, so the cabling is something I need to learn about (so many different connectors..). Current builds all use SATA and SAS.
I did run across LRNV9349-8I which promises 8 drives on a single x16 slot, has a pcie switch onboard, obviously. Are these safe and worth it to use on TrueNAS? I get performance will be degraded but I'm only accessing it at 10Gbps and then super fast app performance isn't a huge deal. I have 2x 5.25 bays so eventually getting 8 drives might be the move for me, if this card is good for TrueNAS