AveryFreeman

This is a great thread, thanks for sharing. I saw the Mini-PCIe to M.2 adapters for NVMe drives on eBay, and I was like "That's not really possible, is it?" Do you have any NVMe benchmark speeds you could share with us? Did you ever find out if the slot is 1.0 or 2.0? BTW I've used Clover to boot from NVMe in a desktop PCIe slot w/ adapter, in case you're interested: https://www.win-raid.com/t2375f50-Guide-NVMe-boot-without-modding-your-UEFI-BIOS-Clover-EFI-bootloader-method.html Usually Clover is used for making hackintoshes, so most guides are Mac-centric, but you can make a Clover boot disk using Boot Disk Utility (link in guide). Booting using an NVMe requires a usb flash drive (or other drive) for bootloader, but you can take it out until you're ready to reboot/turn on the computer again... Or you could put it on the EFI partition of the PATA drive.

Hi, Just wondering if anyone else out there had this idea, I was thinking of using either an X99 or C612 board for pfSense with my 10Gbe network, probably something like an i7-6800K because of stupid fast clock speeds to drive routing and possiblity OpenVPN. I have an I've Bridge E3 server running pfSense right now and my iperf speeds have been underwhelming to say the least (tops out around 4Gbps). I could probably change some tunables but I don't ever see it getting much faster due to hardware limitations. Is anyone else out there running a setup like that for pfSense? Perhaps in ESXi, with an HTPC GPU passthrough? Heh. Lots of ideas...