On Sat, 19 Sep 2020 17:06:32 -0700 Jason Barnett <[email protected]> dijo:
>Good luck in your parts hunting, and the reddit forum is great if you >have the ability to wait for a deal, or as a research tool. >https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales/ I entered a message on Reddit, but after some time there has been no response. I put it in a forum labeled as for Thunderbolt 3 discussion, but that may not have been the best place. I'm also having a difficult time communicating with vendors of enclosures. Evidently they're all too busy to take more orders. Apparently there are only two multi-bay enclosures, both with four bays: An OWC Express 4M2, which is advertised as being able to handle only drives up to 4TB, totaling a max of 16TB, and a Netstor NA622TB3, which does not clearly state what size drives it will take. Neither company has replied to my queries. There also exist PCIe cards that will take up to four NVMe drives, and there are several Thunderbolt enclosures that can take up to three cards. One such card claims that it needs 16 lanes for maximum throughput but, of course, none of the enclosure vendors gives a clue about how many lanes their enclosures provide. And for all of the above I can find no reviews or benchmarks, although there was some discussion on Reddit about the PCIe 3x16 card. As for NVMe drives, there now exist 8TB drives from two different vendors, although the prices approach $1500. And again, no reviews or benchmarks. You can get a 2TB drive for almost exactly twice the price of its 1TB sibling, but a 4TB drive will typically cost two and a half times what its 2TB sister goes for. In other words, 2TB is the best price point at this time. And prices seem rather volatile; refresh a Newegg page 24 hours later and many prices are different. Still poking around. :) _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
