Ben T. Fender composed on 2024-02-27 17:38 (UTC-0500):
The usb connection is the bottleneck, so I'm looking for mobos with multiple extermal M2 slots :-)
If I consider an ePcie card to be *more or less* removable then with 2 slots and this I get 4 removable M2 drives
think I'm gonna order 1 for my death-star
I have two cards similar to that, but only X4. They do work, but I only use them for extreme backups or cloning. Probably most if not all mATX motherboards have no X8 slots, so to use an X8 in one of them you'd have to "waste" an only X16 slot. Full ATX boards are much more likely to have an actual X8, but often if there is a graphics card in an X16, there is no place for a second simultaneous X8. IOW, with only two X8 possible from a motherboard and both populated by those X8 NVME cards, graphics would need to be handled by either onboard graphics, or an X4 or X1 graphics card (if such things actually exist), DisplayLink (aka via USB), or if very lucky(?), a PCI graphics card. If you really need another 4 NVMEs, you might should be looking at a PCIe splitter, perhaps something like: <https://www.amfeltec.com/flexible-x4-pci-express-4way-splitter/> -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata