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loeg
on May 29, 2022
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Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server
The active pcie switches are a lot more expensive than the passive splitters that only work on systems with pcie bifurcation.
fomine3
on May 30, 2022
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Nowadays some recent consumer platforms supports PCIe x16 to x4/x4/x4/x4 bifurcation that should be enough. For RAID, switching (dynamically shares bandwidth between SSDs) is nonsense, isn't it?
amluto
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For a large scale storage system (more NVMe devices than PCIe lanes), a switch is mandatory. Or a “RAID” card or another switch-like device.
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