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Honeg0d

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migrating my data from HDD to SSD has me wanting multi TB M2 PCIe, but, expensive.
right now Raiding multi HDDs gives the volume needed.

it feels like we will be looking at Raiding M2 drives soon..ish.

at which point I will be wanting lots of PCI lanes, or am I missing something ?
 
They make some PCIe cards that offer multiple M.2 slots. The problem is pci lanes. Perhaps AMD has an answer coming with their rumored 16c/32t CPU.. if it's like some of the big ones it could have up to 128 pci lanes.
 
yah.
right now running 8/8, video/drives with 8*1tb 960's in raid6 looks [H] though.
{ok, so it actually wants 4 lanes/drive ? so much for that plan. /edit}
but @ $650 per each (PRO) a $5200 array is steep, right now.

there would need to be a device to plug into the slot to plug the drives into, with cooling.
I like the idea of active cooling the drives but anything better than a duct with a fan blowing across the bare drives looks to involve complexity when swapping drives around.
 
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fluffy heat pads on a copper heatsink that clamped to the hot modules using a single thumbscrew would satisfy me,
if the thermal pads were better at conducting heat than air would be.
 
What are you going to do with that array?

The reason I ask is that you may be better served with Sata SSDs in Raid. They are cheaper per GB and much easier to find a solution to get several into a system (You must already ahve something with 8 Sata ports) . They are still going to be way faster in every way.
 
Do SSDs get that hot or just only in arrays?
Never even given two shits about them vs spinning rust lol.
 
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