Doing a small NAS build, the mobo (E3C236D2i) has 6 SATA ports I want to use exclusively for drives and I don't want to use an HBA in the expansion slot (want 10 gig or additional networking ports). However there is an onboard USB 3.0 port I was thinking of using with some sort of boot device.
Was looking on Amazon a while back and took notice of some NGFF / M.2 enclosures.
Example: https://www.amazon.com/Enclosure-Ex...1517921637&sr=1-28&keywords=m.2+usb+enclosure
Anyone have experience with these and was it positive/negative? I'll probably just end up installing FreeNAS or something but I don't want to use straight up traditional USB flash drives, even if these bottle neck the max traditional storage performance I would still end up with better performance than most flash drives. I think someone said their 850 Evo still gets around 350/330 read/write after plugged into one of these in a USB 3.0 port.
Was looking on Amazon a while back and took notice of some NGFF / M.2 enclosures.
Example: https://www.amazon.com/Enclosure-Ex...1517921637&sr=1-28&keywords=m.2+usb+enclosure
Anyone have experience with these and was it positive/negative? I'll probably just end up installing FreeNAS or something but I don't want to use straight up traditional USB flash drives, even if these bottle neck the max traditional storage performance I would still end up with better performance than most flash drives. I think someone said their 850 Evo still gets around 350/330 read/write after plugged into one of these in a USB 3.0 port.