On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 14:12:07 -0500 Bill Barry <[email protected]> dijo:
>You could bypass the slow access to an external enclosure with this >motherboard >https://www.newegg.com/asus-rog-zenith-ii-extreme-al/p/N82E16813119227 >It has 5 PCIe4 M.2 sockets. It also has 10Gps Ethernet and some >USB3.2 for external access. >If you stretched the definition of "external enclosure" to just be >another computer, this one would make things pretty fast. I thought of just using a computer for an enclosure, but this motherboard is over $800, and after adding a CPU, some RAM and a case it would come to at least $2K. And then how do I get data in and out of it? I'd be back to networking. There do exist motherboards with Thunderbolt 3 ports, and if they don't have enough M.2 NVMe slots there are a couple brands of PCIe cards that can take 4 NVMe drives. And Thunderbolt is supposed to be bidirectional. But some of the NVMe drives that I have been considering come with mammoth heat sinks, so spacing is an issue. This morning I called Sabrent because they offer 8TB NVMe drives, but when I asked them what kind of enclosure I could use they had no idea - 'we haven't tested them in any enclosures.' Not very helpful. The tech guy said 'you can just remove the heat sinks.' Yeah, right. And have the drive die in six months from overheating. :( _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
