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    PCIe switches, "Multicast" & drive mirroring.

    I haven't dealt with dedicated PCIe switches before, and I'm trying to make sense of a feature that is advertised with almost all of them: "Multicast" (from PEX 8749 datasheet) As an example, let's say I have two PCIe x4 NVMe drives in a software Raid1/mirror setup, so the drives would...
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    Multiplying SAS ports without backplane?

    I would like to connect 16 drives to an onboard LSI SAS2308 6Gbps HBA. The HBA is present on my X9SRH board in form of blue SATA-style connectors, eight of them. Would it be possible to "multiply" these 8 ports, so I can connect more than 8 drives, without having to use a backplane? It's my...