On Tuesday, 9 June 2020 16:45:56 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Peter. > > Either an annoyance, or some potentially useful info: > > On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 15:46:43 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I'll try this in a minute - thanks for the idea. I've stuck with device > > names so far because (i) I can read them, and (ii) I can't ever have > > more than one NVMe device in this box. > > If the reason for the "can't ever" is the lack of M2 slots on your > motherboard, you can get a PCIe board with an M2 slot on it. This way > you can get two NVMe devices in a single box. Provided you've got enough > PCIe lanes, and suchlike. This is precisely my setup, where I've got two > 500 Gb NVMe's in a raid-1 configuration.
I've heard of that arrangement, but I haven't looked into it because the spec says the M2 device occupies both PCI-x slots. There may be ways round this, but my 256GB drive is enough for me; I do have a couple of 1TB SATA SSDs as well. -- Regards, Peter.
