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…

Hardware Rec for M.2 NVMe Build

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etorix May 12, 2025, 6:26am 2

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Hardware Rec for M.2 NVMe Build

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