Here's a weird video:
Poor Man's version of Linus' new NVME NAS box…
Asus B250 MINING EXPERT Motherboard has 19 PCIe slots!
Use 18 of them to mount 18 x 4TB Sabrent sticks using PCIe to M.2 adapters
Use the last PCIe slot for a 100Gb ethernet adapter and you'd have one strange NAS box.
18 X PCIe 1x lane is 250MB/sec = 4500MB/sec so would be interesting to see if it got anywhere near a CPU that had the PCIe lanes in the first place.
This would soon get interesting/serious if you could find a mobo that had numerous Gen3x4 slots (and appropriate adapters) so not to throttle the NVME I/O...
mmm…