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[Billy Irle]

Hi I’m working on a nas that will be running truenas I was going to have it run an m.2 as the boot drive, but I decided It would probably be better to run 2 in a raid 1 the only problem is my motherboard only has one m.2 slot, so I’m looking for a pcie card that has both m.2 and sata on it so I have the extra sata ports as well if this doesn’t exist then just in general what a good pcie to m.2 card to buy is

[Electronics Wizardy]

What system specs?

 

Id just run a single ssd for boot, ssds are reliable, and Its easy to recreate the data if you lose the boot drive.

 

Why not get a sata ssd for boot, then you can just use a normal sata card.

[Quickstrike]

I use an NVME PCIE adaptor by Sabrent. You can get cards that hold up to 4 NVME SSDs like this
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For more Sata drive M.2, Use a Sata converter card like this

[Needfuldoer]

1 hour ago, Quickstrike said:

I use an NVME PCIE adaptor by Sabrent. You can get cards that hold up to 4 NVME SSDs like this

Does that one require the motherboard to support PCIe bifurcation? There are versions that don't, but they usually have some kind of bridge chip on them.

[Quickstrike]

On 2/8/2022 at 5:18 PM, Needfuldoer said:

Does that one require the motherboard to support PCIe bifurcation? There are versions that don't, but they usually have some kind of bridge chip on them.

I got no idea. In the case a a 4 NVME card, I guess you would need bifurcation but in my understanding, most recent architecture support it. How old is your CPU?

[Needfuldoer]

The machine I'd use it in is a Dell PowerEdge R720, so Intel C602 chipset with Ivy Bridge CPUs.

 

It's not really a big deal, a single-drive PCIe card works fine for the media database.