I have four 4TB M.2 NVMe & three 2TB M.2 NVMe just laying around. I would like to use these to build a second NAS. I tried using the Geekworm X1011 PCIe to Quad M.2 Key-M NVMe SSD HAT Peripheral Board for Raspberry Pi 5 setting up software Raid myself, but this failed horribly, as this board has so…

Maybe, some high end gamer motherboards (like the 1000+USD range) support 4 NVMe on board. But for consumer grade CPUs the number of available PCIe lanes is really limited. YOu can use a PCIe card for this purpose, if: YOur MoBo has a free x16 PCIe connector That connector is actually wired up t…

A used H12SSL-whatever with a Rome Epyc from eBay plus NVMe carrier boards can hold up to 26 M.2 drives, and they are relatively cheap. As it’s an ATX motherboard it fits in a standard tower case, or even in a rack mount. I’ll point out with that sort of hardware, one can easily go overboard and o…

You really only provided one specification, four 4TB NVMe M.2 drives. With that in mind, you could also take a look at doing a Google search for “TERRAMASTER F8 SSD NAS”. This has had a few reviews on it as well and looks decent. It comes with a 10Gbps port and while I’m not sure how much RAM co…

I immediately gravitated toward that, despite the price, until I looked at the specs and realized it won’t come close to the performance the NVMe are capable of. I could live with that if the price weren’t outrageous.

Yes, TrueNas is the only NAS software I’m running, other than Proxmox Backup Server, if that counts. I’ve had a Synology before, and I wasn’t a fan. I do actually have over 10 NetApp machines, that I won as part of an auction, stocked floor to ceiling in my garage. lol, so yeah I’m looking to run so…

[image] joeschmuck: TERRAMASTER F8 SSD NA Wow, this Terramaster is slick. Unrelated, to the Terramaster, is it accurate that using Thunderbolt with TrueNas can cause problems with ZFS? Aside from the server infrastructure, every device in my home has TB3, 4, or 5.

[image] fakebizprez: Thunderbolt with TrueNas TrueNAS essentially has no Thunderbolt support. Yes… they may accidentally include it, but its not tested, and there’s no guarantee that it will work with any particular update or not. Wish it weren’t so.

[image] Stux: TrueNAS essentially has no Thunderbolt support. Yes… they may accidentally include it, but its not tested, and there’s no guarantee that it will work with any particular update or not. Wish it weren’t so. As an unofficial comment, this is only partially true. All of the things …

[image] fakebizprez: until I looked at the specs and realized it won’t come close to the performance the NVMe are capable of Kudos for checking hardware specifications. But you missed the point that it doesn’t really matter than each drive gets a x1 PCIe 3.0 link: That’s still more than enou…

If I am correct, TB is an Intel proprietary technology, so it is not surprising that AMD did not have it. But I might be uttely wrong in this.

Hardware Rec for M.2 NVMe Build

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Hardware Rec for M.2 NVMe Build

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