[ale] A modest proposal for the times

[Solomon Peachy]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 06:39:27PM -0400, Steve Litt via Ale wrote:
> The other thing is that most motherboards I've seen can house a maximum
> of 2 NVMes, and if you use both something or other gets degraded. So
> 16TB on one computer is very difficult.

NVMe slots are effectively just PCIe in a very small form-factor; if 
your motherboard has any spare PCIe slots you can use cheap passive 
PCIe->NVMe adapters until you run out of slots.

There are also PCIe adapters that can hold 2+ NVMe drives, but they may 
require motherboard/chipset support to function properly (the cheap ones 
rely on PCIe bifrucation and the fancier ones use an active PCIe 
switch/router)

Another option is to use SATA-attached SSDs; they're going to be slower 
(and cheaper) than NVMe but still vastly faster than spinning rust. A 
quick perusal of Newegg shows you can get 4TB drives for under $170, 
which is still over 2x the cost of spinning rust at the 16TB mark.

ANYWay...

 - Solomon
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Solomon Peachy			      pizza at shaftnet dot org (email&xmpp)
                                      @pizza:shaftnet dot org   (matrix)
Dowling Park, FL                      speachy (libera.chat)
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