So there are tons of mining motherboards with 10+ PCI-E x1 slots out there on the super-cheap. There are also loads of enterprise-grade 22110 SSD's out there on the super-cheap. Most, if not all, of each of these are PCI-E 3.0 as I recall.
Has anyone experimented with using, say, an Asus B250 Mining Expert with a bunch of slower PCI-e 3.0 SSD's (i.e. Samsung PM963 or 953) and a swarm of m.2 PCI-E x1 adapters with a 25GB nic in the x16 slot? Most of these have onboard graphics anyway.
12g SAS drives can get crazy expensive whereas controllers are cheap; nvme drives can be cheap but expanders would probably be crazy expensive... but an asus B250 mining expert (or similar) with a ton of PM963's might actually be interesting. I think they sell retaining clips that should keep the m.2 sticks secured in the slot on their adapters (maybe).
Thoughts? or is this completely stupid?
Has anyone experimented with using, say, an Asus B250 Mining Expert with a bunch of slower PCI-e 3.0 SSD's (i.e. Samsung PM963 or 953) and a swarm of m.2 PCI-E x1 adapters with a 25GB nic in the x16 slot? Most of these have onboard graphics anyway.
12g SAS drives can get crazy expensive whereas controllers are cheap; nvme drives can be cheap but expanders would probably be crazy expensive... but an asus B250 mining expert (or similar) with a ton of PM963's might actually be interesting. I think they sell retaining clips that should keep the m.2 sticks secured in the slot on their adapters (maybe).
Thoughts? or is this completely stupid?