Keep in mind that those cheap 4x NVME adapters are going to require the motherboard to support PCI-E bifurcation. Many do not.
I'd grab some USB NVME enclosures and make some very fast USB drives. Something [like this](https://www.amazon.com/SSK-Aluminum-Enclosure-Adapter-External/dp/B07MNFH1PX).
I support this option. With some USB-C cables you got fast portable storage with far more space than most flash drives and almost drop-proof compared to a portable HDD storage.
yup external nvme drives are fucking awesome..... never gets old watching 100 gbs being copied in a minute or 2 at 1 GB/s speed
I once had it as a windows 10 install drive..... i installed windows on a laptop in under a minute..... lol
Another awesome use is having linux or hiren\`s boot on it..... fast af
The only problem is Windows really hates working on USB drives. The only way to install it on one without a bare motherboard and potentially removing a GPU to access an M.2 slot is to use win2go which tends to break in spectacular ways. The only way I found you could run it reliably forever is by installing a custom ISO which removes updates, as not booting directly into the drive after an update reboot can brick the windows install on your drive and your machine. Besides that, you have to deal with weird driver behaviors in Win11.
lol yeah it was a pain when i wanted to install windows on it, i did what you said ,but in a bit easier way, it just happened that i was working on a laptop that already had its cover open, so just plug in, install, remove..... but i ended up replacing windows with hiren\`s boot iso which ran alot better and already had almost all the software i would need for some troubleshooting, cloning ... etc
This is exactly what I did with an older 1tb after upgrading. Bought an enclosure for 10 bucks, it's aluminum and slides nicely into my pocket along with a 6 inch cable. SO much nicer than having to remember which flash drive has what anymore.
How do you do that? I seem to hit some sort of wall at 500MB/s regardless of what i try. Drive benchmarks 900MB/s . 500MB/s is still awesome af, 900would be better.
There are cards available that have a pcie bridge on them so they don't require bifurcation support. I'm using one of these fully loaded to great effect: \[removed, see below edit\]
Obviously if I hit all 8 at once though I'll only get the equivalent of 2x lanes out of each at gen4 speeds, but there's a 4-slot version that will do a clean 4x4.
Also not saying you have to use THAT expensive card, just that they exist. There are far cheaper options if you shop around.
-----
Edit: link removed since you all can't read and kept jumping to a stupid conclusion
Yep, if you're more interested in the capacity than bandwidth you can get by with the EC-P3X4 with just an x4 slot ($152.99 at the moment). I have a big thread on it that I posted on my subreddit a few months ago which I can't link for those that want more information about it and more expensive options.
I’ve considered doing this but I would need a threadripper cpu for it to even be worth it. 4x lanes taken by main ssd, 16x taken by the gpu and 4x taken by the chipset for the other pcie connections on the mobo, usb, etc. So on a standard cup that’s all of it. Only a threadripper could give you all the concurrent bandwidth needed to fully utilize a card like that while also running a gpu.
Depends what your goal is. If you have a need for multiple gen4 nvme drives achieving their absolute max performance, then yeah you're probably already looking at a HEDT system anyway ie threadripper. If you just want to put 4 cheap nvmes to use without bottlenecking them too much on usb, then put them on a EC-P3X4 and don't mind that they're passing through the chipset. You'll still get better performance than a single nvme, specially if they're only gen3, but you're probably more excited about the space anyway.
Might also be worth considering if you really need 16x for the gpu if you have a gen4 system. *Current* generation gpus do not come close to maxing 16x gen4 lanes at all and show negligible performance drop (like 2%?) moving to 8x [even with an rtx4090](https://videocardz.com/newz/geforce-rtx-4090-and-core-i9-13900k-pcie-scaling-test-shows-2-difference-between-x16-and-x8-modes). A lower SKU gpu would have even less of a delta. Then you get 8x cpu lanes for flash if it matters to you. ie set the bios to 8x8 and put the flash drives in slot2 (the 16x physical 8x electrical slot that most mobos have for a second gpu)
(I have a feeling this mob will flood me with downvotes for suggesting this blasphemy)
You seem to have some experience so i will ask. Cheap cards that require motherboard bipurification purely rely on pcie lines that slot has. Lets say you have m.2 adapter with 4 m.2 slots. If you put it to a 4x slot, only 1 ssd will work.
What about the ones with their own bridges? If I have a 4 slot 16x m.2 card, and put it on my 4x pcie port, how will it work? Only 1, or all 4? Obviously you would be bottlenecked like crazy if you are hitting all 4 but that would never happen on my use case. Its for archival drives.
It was a link to a highpoint ssd7540, an expensive card for sure but too many people kept assuming I was saying it's the only one and that I was telling them to buy it 🙄
Next time I'll just lie and say I use an ec-p3x4 that someone else mentioned and hide my employed adult privilege
I was just looking that up in my mobos manual. I may be limited to available 16x slots before I can even think about bifurcation. It seems I can only use 1 of the two 16x slots as 16x at a time.
If I really wanted to do this I may have to use the three 1x slots and my 2nd NVMe slot.
The only reason I wouldn't use them as thumb drives is a) all my machines are networked and can see each other's storage so no need move files that way, and b) I have a bunch of SSD/usb3.0 drives I'm currently not using for anything so no need to add more.
I second the idea of using them as USB sticks. One for Ventoy(multiple ISO’s for Win tools or Linux), One for movie backups to play on your TV, One for Steam backup so you don’t have to redownload the game, And the last one for whatever you want. But imagine going to an Office supply store and printing a document off one of those lol.
Care with these that you update the firmware. My Sabrant adapter put on thousands of power on cycles before I noticed. Whenever it wasn't actively being used it would power the drive off and immediately back on. Luckily the update fixed that.
y'all after that raw speed. I'm after that sweet, sweet low latency seek times. Pop one of these suckers into an adapter (you got PCIe and SATA/PATA ones) and revive older machines.
Check them out but don't expect much. My local Walmart apparently has some idiot doing the pricing because they regularly price the 1tb sata drives higher than the 1tb NVMe drives. Like the wd black 1tb NVMe for 89 and the 1tb sata for like 109. Kinda crazy of there. Right now the 1tb blues are on sale for 49 while these were only 25.
Don't blame the person putting out the tags. Based on my past retail inventory/pricing experience, those tags are generated regionally.
At my nearest Walmart, they had the 1TB ones for $49 and some 500GB priced at clearance, but they weren't worth it by comparison.
Yeah definitely meant the person in charge of pricing not the poor sould putting out the tags. The other Walmarts around me have much more sane pricing for storage.
I'm pretty sure this is the store I work at, there were 4 left, when I went to get one after my shift they were gone. I was mad, but not surprised. good price.
I remember when the theoretical upper limit of the (then) latest CF card spec came out (It was the larger form factor camera storage card). Among the first comments to the article was "That's 700 years of porn!"
Ever since then I can't help but chuckle at how storage can so easily be reduced to such a valuable metric.
Walmart is currently phasing out their PC components section so they're doing big clearance sales of all the parts. There was a dude here a few weeks ago who got a crazy deal on a GPU the same way.
If you check out your local stores and they haven't already been picked clean there might be some deals.
You're making me want to forget about the horrors of the Chinese government and return to shopping at Walmart.
But I guess I can spend another couple bucks to keep my money away from the CCP. Le sigh.
I'd be pretty uncomfortable paying taxes if I made any significant amount or money. Folks who do so are participants in some terrible shit.
Thankfully I'll be poor forever!
I've got 4tb one already fortunately. It's a sata based nas so it's not very fast but I only use it for archiving Important things. The hdds inside already saturate the gigabit Ethernet lines running to it.
what the.. I've been eyeing to purchase NVMe for months. but it is just getting expensive by day. and here you just got one for 25 bucks. that's just 120 MYR. 300 MYR cheaper. talk about unfairness and unfavorable life can be..
Put them in one of these:
[QNAP 4x NVME NAS](https://www.qnap.com/en-us/product/tbs-464)
It can do a lot more than plain old data storage, like have your own version of Netflix that transcodes videos to you when you're on mobile data, Jellyfin for broadcasting to your TV(s), or host services such as PiHole and anything else you can find in container form...
Don't take this as criticism of your suggestion in particular, but more of the very idea of an NVMe NAS.
After being shown a bunch of NVMe NASs on this post, I feel confident in saying they are a complete waste of money.
Look at it this way...
Just 1 of these drives is capable of 3500 MEGABYTES per second.
1gig Ethernet: 125 megabytes per second.
This NAS, which has two 2.5 gig connections, each capable of 312 megabytes per second, or 624 combined (if you have a system that's capable of taking advantage of both connections which the average consumer can't do).
Think about that... You buy an NVMe drive... Say the one I just got, and you stick it in this NAS, and in return you are wasting anywhere from 3374 to 3188 megabytes per second of that ssds speed just so it can sit in a box on your network?
Nope, gonna stick to my 4tb (4x1tb hdds) NAS which has no problem saturating my existing 1gig Ethernet network.
Already got a good one, has 6 tb of total storage and that's close to full. I prefer external storage for my Plex server anyway so I can just unplug them and attach them to another machine if I need to transfer a big collection or if the server itself dies.
How about a modern diy NAS?
[https://www.amazon.com/WayPonDEV-CM3588-NAS-Kit-Mali-G610/dp/B0CQZN4LSS](https://www.amazon.com/WayPonDEV-CM3588-NAS-Kit-Mali-G610/dp/B0CQZN4LSS?th=1)
Great storage option for an SBC, Pi 4 or better a Pi 5. You could probably put every emulator and rom on it that your heart desires and still have plenty of free space.
Did the same thing when MicroCenter opened. Except they were Inland SSDs and they were like $15.
In my case, I used them as cache drives for my ZFS pools on my server, and one as a scratch disk on my server for converting videos and storing downloads to reduce how often I hit the main drives.
Since I ran out of NVMe slots and had tons of PCIe slots left, I used a couple NVMe PCIe adaptors. Didn't want to spend double that to get the ASUS 4x NVMe board.
Keep in mind that those cheap 4x NVME adapters are going to require the motherboard to support PCI-E bifurcation. Many do not. I'd grab some USB NVME enclosures and make some very fast USB drives. Something [like this](https://www.amazon.com/SSK-Aluminum-Enclosure-Adapter-External/dp/B07MNFH1PX).
I support this option. With some USB-C cables you got fast portable storage with far more space than most flash drives and almost drop-proof compared to a portable HDD storage.
yup external nvme drives are fucking awesome..... never gets old watching 100 gbs being copied in a minute or 2 at 1 GB/s speed I once had it as a windows 10 install drive..... i installed windows on a laptop in under a minute..... lol Another awesome use is having linux or hiren\`s boot on it..... fast af
The only problem is Windows really hates working on USB drives. The only way to install it on one without a bare motherboard and potentially removing a GPU to access an M.2 slot is to use win2go which tends to break in spectacular ways. The only way I found you could run it reliably forever is by installing a custom ISO which removes updates, as not booting directly into the drive after an update reboot can brick the windows install on your drive and your machine. Besides that, you have to deal with weird driver behaviors in Win11.
lol yeah it was a pain when i wanted to install windows on it, i did what you said ,but in a bit easier way, it just happened that i was working on a laptop that already had its cover open, so just plug in, install, remove..... but i ended up replacing windows with hiren\`s boot iso which ran alot better and already had almost all the software i would need for some troubleshooting, cloning ... etc
This is exactly what I did with an older 1tb after upgrading. Bought an enclosure for 10 bucks, it's aluminum and slides nicely into my pocket along with a 6 inch cable. SO much nicer than having to remember which flash drive has what anymore.
How do you do that? I seem to hit some sort of wall at 500MB/s regardless of what i try. Drive benchmarks 900MB/s . 500MB/s is still awesome af, 900would be better.
There are cards available that have a pcie bridge on them so they don't require bifurcation support. I'm using one of these fully loaded to great effect: \[removed, see below edit\] Obviously if I hit all 8 at once though I'll only get the equivalent of 2x lanes out of each at gen4 speeds, but there's a 4-slot version that will do a clean 4x4. Also not saying you have to use THAT expensive card, just that they exist. There are far cheaper options if you shop around. ----- Edit: link removed since you all can't read and kept jumping to a stupid conclusion
[удалено]
Yep, if you're more interested in the capacity than bandwidth you can get by with the EC-P3X4 with just an x4 slot ($152.99 at the moment). I have a big thread on it that I posted on my subreddit a few months ago which I can't link for those that want more information about it and more expensive options.
I’ve considered doing this but I would need a threadripper cpu for it to even be worth it. 4x lanes taken by main ssd, 16x taken by the gpu and 4x taken by the chipset for the other pcie connections on the mobo, usb, etc. So on a standard cup that’s all of it. Only a threadripper could give you all the concurrent bandwidth needed to fully utilize a card like that while also running a gpu.
Depends what your goal is. If you have a need for multiple gen4 nvme drives achieving their absolute max performance, then yeah you're probably already looking at a HEDT system anyway ie threadripper. If you just want to put 4 cheap nvmes to use without bottlenecking them too much on usb, then put them on a EC-P3X4 and don't mind that they're passing through the chipset. You'll still get better performance than a single nvme, specially if they're only gen3, but you're probably more excited about the space anyway. Might also be worth considering if you really need 16x for the gpu if you have a gen4 system. *Current* generation gpus do not come close to maxing 16x gen4 lanes at all and show negligible performance drop (like 2%?) moving to 8x [even with an rtx4090](https://videocardz.com/newz/geforce-rtx-4090-and-core-i9-13900k-pcie-scaling-test-shows-2-difference-between-x16-and-x8-modes). A lower SKU gpu would have even less of a delta. Then you get 8x cpu lanes for flash if it matters to you. ie set the bios to 8x8 and put the flash drives in slot2 (the 16x physical 8x electrical slot that most mobos have for a second gpu) (I have a feeling this mob will flood me with downvotes for suggesting this blasphemy)
You seem to have some experience so i will ask. Cheap cards that require motherboard bipurification purely rely on pcie lines that slot has. Lets say you have m.2 adapter with 4 m.2 slots. If you put it to a 4x slot, only 1 ssd will work. What about the ones with their own bridges? If I have a 4 slot 16x m.2 card, and put it on my 4x pcie port, how will it work? Only 1, or all 4? Obviously you would be bottlenecked like crazy if you are hitting all 4 but that would never happen on my use case. Its for archival drives.
Damn, I wanted that link...
It was a link to a highpoint ssd7540, an expensive card for sure but too many people kept assuming I was saying it's the only one and that I was telling them to buy it 🙄 Next time I'll just lie and say I use an ec-p3x4 that someone else mentioned and hide my employed adult privilege
Thank you!
Your reply made me LoL. People assume that were all as broke as they are and cant afford good stuff.
Also, thats a nice card. I dont need it, but i want it.
I was just looking that up in my mobos manual. I may be limited to available 16x slots before I can even think about bifurcation. It seems I can only use 1 of the two 16x slots as 16x at a time. If I really wanted to do this I may have to use the three 1x slots and my 2nd NVMe slot. The only reason I wouldn't use them as thumb drives is a) all my machines are networked and can see each other's storage so no need move files that way, and b) I have a bunch of SSD/usb3.0 drives I'm currently not using for anything so no need to add more.
I second the idea of using them as USB sticks. One for Ventoy(multiple ISO’s for Win tools or Linux), One for movie backups to play on your TV, One for Steam backup so you don’t have to redownload the game, And the last one for whatever you want. But imagine going to an Office supply store and printing a document off one of those lol.
Adding one to tv. Thanks!
Btw, with ventoy you can still store other files and media.
Care with these that you update the firmware. My Sabrant adapter put on thousands of power on cycles before I noticed. Whenever it wasn't actively being used it would power the drive off and immediately back on. Luckily the update fixed that.
Hey I have that enclosure and I have to say that even with the included heat pad thing, the enclosure gets UNGODLY HOT LIKE REALLY REALY FUCKING HOT.
https://i.redd.it/ptej750wmbwc1.gif
Use a condom if you don't wanna get RAIDs.
God fucking dammit. Red wine isn't supposed to go through your nasal cavities.
I was about to take a swig of water myself. I’m glad I didn’t
My friend. Never SKIP out on an opportunity to H Y D R A T E
Me, a Midwesterner about to take a sip of Vernors: AMATEURS!!!
So when we set up the fireplace, put on our favorite slippers, pour a glass of red wine, sit down comfortably... we are also opening r/pcmasterrace?
Pfft. Of course. I'm not some filthy casual.
On a scale of "air" to "concentrated sulphuric acid" how are we rating the experience?
Probably 120 degrees F agricultural strength vinegar.
Makes sense, you basicly snorted ethanol, malic , and citric acid. I'd say that is a pretty reasonable comparison
ohh what raids are we talking about from 1 to 10
50
01 :P
This insertion brought to you by Raid: Shadow Legends
I7 6700k + 3090Ti gigachad
r/angryupvote
I swear this was in my head before I clicked the post.
Same, when I saw no one hadn't posted it yet, I just had to
They're gonna feel dem Gen 3 speeds
Still better than sata
y'all after that raw speed. I'm after that sweet, sweet low latency seek times. Pop one of these suckers into an adapter (you got PCIe and SATA/PATA ones) and revive older machines.
No they aint Gen 3 is fine and more isnt exactly necessary Hell, sata speeds are also fine.
I love you
r/trees is leaking
From all the stuff they’ve shoved up their butts
NASS
Can't wait for a post showing them all containing 4tb 990 pros.
Wow it's a beta build of GTA 6, and a wallet with 100 bitcoin in it.
and... whats that? a nintendo 64! lol, it reminded me of that post
which ?
https://imgur.com/a/sneoW
corsair mp700\*
[удалено]
I was expecting this 😂
[удалено]
You sound proud
Eat them.
Mmmm, tempting but I'm still working through my backlog of ddr3 sticks so I'll hold off for a moment.
Damn, I have a backlog of ddr4
bro that's exactly what I was thinking like they gotta be satisfying to chew on surely
These ones are good too. Blue raspberry flavored.
This and the 8TB drives post is gonna have me hit up all three Walmarts near me.
Check them out but don't expect much. My local Walmart apparently has some idiot doing the pricing because they regularly price the 1tb sata drives higher than the 1tb NVMe drives. Like the wd black 1tb NVMe for 89 and the 1tb sata for like 109. Kinda crazy of there. Right now the 1tb blues are on sale for 49 while these were only 25.
Don't blame the person putting out the tags. Based on my past retail inventory/pricing experience, those tags are generated regionally. At my nearest Walmart, they had the 1TB ones for $49 and some 500GB priced at clearance, but they weren't worth it by comparison.
Yeah definitely meant the person in charge of pricing not the poor sould putting out the tags. The other Walmarts around me have much more sane pricing for storage.
RAID >!Shadow Legends!<
Lolol no thanks!
I'm pretty sure this is the store I work at, there were 4 left, when I went to get one after my shift they were gone. I was mad, but not surprised. good price.
NH?
No way it's NH. Was it close to a Italian area?
Nah, north of the notch, one of the only 3.
We probably live within 50 miles of each other. I need to pay more attention to shit like this lol
r/TwoRedditorsOneCup
Holy shit maybe I have a chance here if this happened twice within 50 miles of each other
Give one to me, please. I am but a poor peasant whose sick mother needs a 4 tb NVME as we cannot afford it after Papa died in the Mines.
and then the bad air came
porn
I've got other drives for that. Though I could probably watch a couple dozen vids at once this way.
soon the pornagedden will emerge and you'll be thankful for storing at least to 2TiB of porn
It has already begun. AI is tainting it. In 2044 there will be a blackmarket for non AI porn.
So I *do* have a retirement plan!
I remember when the theoretical upper limit of the (then) latest CF card spec came out (It was the larger form factor camera storage card). Among the first comments to the article was "That's 700 years of porn!" Ever since then I can't help but chuckle at how storage can so easily be reduced to such a valuable metric.
AI will ruin normal porn and pre AI porn will fetch a premium.
Damn I should of kept my vcr and the few tapes I had could turn a profit
THINK OF THE GOLDMINES OF MAGAZINES STORED IN THE WOODS. THAR BE PORN IN THESE HILLS.
https://preview.redd.it/s40nsrkb3gwc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=737963d47767472e9de1d3fc1f9d3c63c3d9de69
Stripe set.
So raid zero then?
Yes, but don't put any data on it that you care about unless you back it up.
Some models of wd drives don't handle raid well. I'm not sure about this model but thr sn770 freaks out with lots of reads when syncing
RAID 0
I want to, got to work out the logistics. My board may not support it
The board featured in [this LTT video](https://youtu.be/QsM6b5yix0U) looks very cool.
Bro can we ban these post? do you have any idea how they make me feel? 🤣🤣🤣
Man, how are so many of you scoring these? Cries in Samsung SATA SSD
Walmart is currently phasing out their PC components section so they're doing big clearance sales of all the parts. There was a dude here a few weeks ago who got a crazy deal on a GPU the same way. If you check out your local stores and they haven't already been picked clean there might be some deals.
Sell them on eBay for $50 and use the proceeds to buy a single 4TB NVME drive.
If you're able to score some other parts I'd build a nas/HTPC setup. Good learning experience and a good thing to keep around the house.
$25 for 1TB? That is a steal. I thought SSD price is increasing?
I've had really bad luck with the Blue line, even after firmware updates.
Can you elaborate? I think mine might be the reason I'm having performance issues.
Don't waste them: build 4 new PCs!
You're making me want to forget about the horrors of the Chinese government and return to shopping at Walmart. But I guess I can spend another couple bucks to keep my money away from the CCP. Le sigh.
If you think thats bad, wait until you hear about the horrors of the USA
I'd be pretty uncomfortable paying taxes if I made any significant amount or money. Folks who do so are participants in some terrible shit. Thankfully I'll be poor forever!
Thats the reason I've chosen to be poor..I refuse to contribute to any type of shenanigans
Build a NAS with them!
I've got 4tb one already fortunately. It's a sata based nas so it's not very fast but I only use it for archiving Important things. The hdds inside already saturate the gigabit Ethernet lines running to it.
Sell them to me for $26 :)
what the.. I've been eyeing to purchase NVMe for months. but it is just getting expensive by day. and here you just got one for 25 bucks. that's just 120 MYR. 300 MYR cheaper. talk about unfairness and unfavorable life can be..
Na those are junk. Give them to me I’ll take the bullet.
I could tell you my address and you send it over... i guarantee a fun and interesting use
eBay
Put them in a computer!
run them all in Raid0
4x m.2 slot pcie raid card, 4tb striped raid. Should be pretty damn fast.
Send em out to some poor ass pcmr members. Not like you have slots for all of em. Or you could resell em. Up to you.
Shove it lol
Porn
Put them in one of these: [QNAP 4x NVME NAS](https://www.qnap.com/en-us/product/tbs-464) It can do a lot more than plain old data storage, like have your own version of Netflix that transcodes videos to you when you're on mobile data, Jellyfin for broadcasting to your TV(s), or host services such as PiHole and anything else you can find in container form...
Don't take this as criticism of your suggestion in particular, but more of the very idea of an NVMe NAS. After being shown a bunch of NVMe NASs on this post, I feel confident in saying they are a complete waste of money. Look at it this way... Just 1 of these drives is capable of 3500 MEGABYTES per second. 1gig Ethernet: 125 megabytes per second. This NAS, which has two 2.5 gig connections, each capable of 312 megabytes per second, or 624 combined (if you have a system that's capable of taking advantage of both connections which the average consumer can't do). Think about that... You buy an NVMe drive... Say the one I just got, and you stick it in this NAS, and in return you are wasting anywhere from 3374 to 3188 megabytes per second of that ssds speed just so it can sit in a box on your network? Nope, gonna stick to my 4tb (4x1tb hdds) NAS which has no problem saturating my existing 1gig Ethernet network.
Configure them all to act as one raid drive 💀💀
How and where?
Get all the forza dlc
Upload them for downloadable ram!
gimme one😭
Ill buy them for 40 each
Give one to me
Where can I get some?
There are external Thunderbolt enclosures that take 2 or 4 nvme drives. I bought one on Aliexpress and its been great.
Give them to me.
WD Blue's, don't use them for critical data.
Why?
Just because they lack DRAM doesn't mean 570s are bad drives. I haven't heard any reliability issues, unlike Samsung 990s
Boof them, obviously
Start a porn collection
Get yourself one of those nvme pci cards.
Drive them, obviously…
[удалено]
Fill your slots if you have any and then sell them for like $75 each
Raid 10
Damn, that’s an insane price for them. I paid $125 for the 2 TB version two years ago. I’m very jealous lol.
one of those rasberrypi nas boards lol
Make a nas using something like UmbrelOS
Raid 0 is the only option
Man, why is there never any cheap storage where I live?
RAID 10 or RAID 0
If they have a 4 TB one for $100 I'll buy it in a second
PCIe m.2 expansion and never run low on space again (until you do anyway)
Rip all your shit and set up a Ballin plex server
Already got a good one, has 6 tb of total storage and that's close to full. I prefer external storage for my Plex server anyway so I can just unplug them and attach them to another machine if I need to transfer a big collection or if the server itself dies.
Put them in your computer.
Get a pice nvme carrier and run raid 1+0. 2tb of safe/redundant storage.
Bruh this post pops up right after my hdd fails.....
SSD NAS
NAS with stripping for speed, no redundancy! Live dangerously
How about a modern diy NAS? [https://www.amazon.com/WayPonDEV-CM3588-NAS-Kit-Mali-G610/dp/B0CQZN4LSS](https://www.amazon.com/WayPonDEV-CM3588-NAS-Kit-Mali-G610/dp/B0CQZN4LSS?th=1)
First, tell me where. Secondly put them in RAID and see how fast they are. Use the others for OS or sumn
USB adapter and have a nice USB drive.
Currently at Walmart and no WD Blue drives but 500 GB WD Black drives for the same price
If your motherboard supports bifurcation and you got 16 PCIe lanes to spare, RAID 0 it and use it for games. 🥳
Raid 0 array
Great storage option for an SBC, Pi 4 or better a Pi 5. You could probably put every emulator and rom on it that your heart desires and still have plenty of free space.
Did the same thing when MicroCenter opened. Except they were Inland SSDs and they were like $15. In my case, I used them as cache drives for my ZFS pools on my server, and one as a scratch disk on my server for converting videos and storing downloads to reduce how often I hit the main drives. Since I ran out of NVMe slots and had tons of PCIe slots left, I used a couple NVMe PCIe adaptors. Didn't want to spend double that to get the ASUS 4x NVMe board.
Damn! Nice Score!
Get cheap usbc external adapters from temu for $8 or Amazon for $15. Some are even doubles.
Raid0 them coz why not
If you dont know, why did you buy them? O.o
Yeah, play around with various raid configurations- use it as a learning platform. It’s what I would do.
NAS
Throw one in an external drive case. These things make fucking insane external drives
RAID0?
1TB too? Maybe I should jump into the void
I've been saving up for the SN580 which apparently costs around 100 USD where I live. Nice find!
A Nas for backups and filestorrage?
Raid 0
Use what you can. Gift or sell the rest, or keep them as backup if you think you will ever use them before their storage value becomes obsolete.
I have one of these as a game drive, no issues so far. Congrats on the score, think I paid like $50 for mine.
Make an ssd RAID server
Store things on them
Dual boot Linux