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[MiniKnight]

@acquacow that's deserving of its own build thread in the DIY forum.

Its also something you can't do with Ryzen.

 

[acquacow]

Well, pci-e 2.0 x16 is good for 6GB/sec... that's pretty substantial... you could get 4 lower speed drives and stripe them easily.

It seems to scale them well too.
Amfeltec Squid x16 PCIe board + four SM951s

6GB/sec in a single slot is pretty epic. I have 4 slots dedicated to get 6GB/sec right now...

 

[BigDaddy]

Oops, you are right! Thought that was just a better price for the link below. Here is the PCIe 3.0 version

PCI Express Gen 3 Carrier Board for 4 M.2 SSD Modules (SKU-086-34) ($609.00) : Saelig Online Store

Costs just a lil more for the card, but worth it.

$609 for the board
$199 each for 4 MyDigitalSSD BPX 80mm (2280) M.2 PCI Express 3.0 x4 (PCIe Gen3 x4) NVMe MLC SSD (480GB)
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$1405 Total
10.4GB/sec
5.6TBW wear life
5yr warranty on drives
73 cents a GB!

 

[BigDaddy]

Well, pci-e 2.0 x16 is good for 6GB/sec... that's pretty substantial... you could get 4 lower speed drives and stripe them easily.

It seems to scale them well too.
Amfeltec Squid x16 PCIe board + four SM951s

6GB/sec in a single slot is pretty epic. I have 4 slots dedicated to get 6GB/sec right now...

If I wasn't broke I'd be throwing my money at one of the PCIe 3.0 versions and 4 of those bpx.

or maybe 4 cards and 16 960 pro, for 56GB/sec... Which is like the speed of ram?! or am I missing something here?

tinkertry has a review of the board, but would really like to a more comprehensive one from someone here. Or someone could buy me one and I'll do it

 

[Patriot]

m.2's are going to have low TBW... If you want obscenely fast grab Intel's P3608 drives... they are pcie 3 x8s
3GB/s writes, 5GB/s reaeds... and 3 writes per day. I think hitachi has an x8 card that is half the price.

 

[acquacow]

Oops, you are right! Thought that was just a better price for the link below. Here is the PCIe 3.0 version

PCI Express Gen 3 Carrier Board for 4 M.2 SSD Modules (SKU-086-34) ($609.00) : Saelig Online Store

Costs just a lil more for the card, but worth it.

$609 for the board
$199 each for 4 MyDigitalSSD BPX 80mm (2280) M.2 PCI Express 3.0 x4 (PCIe Gen3 x4) NVMe MLC SSD (480GB)
-----------
$1405 Total
10.4GB/sec
5.6TBW wear life
5yr warranty on drives
73 cents a GB!

So... someone actually did it...
Intel P3608 1.6TB vs. Amfeltec 4x 1TB 960 Pro

 

[Deci]

well thats pretty neat that it scales well.

if you have a read heavy use case, thats a cheaper solution than the larger single card NVME solutions and you could even do a soft raid5 or 10