Gregory's ServerThis PCIe card is so quirky. Dual NVMe + 10GbE + dual USB-C all in one. Pretty neat little combo.
https://www.sonnettech.com/product/mcfiver-pcie-card/overview.html
Paul Haddad :tapbots_logo:
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Alexey Skobkin
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Tim Van Dijck
@paul I was wondering if all those things combined wouldn't saturate bandwidth, then I looked up how much bandwidth modern PCIe has 🤪 
Eric Peacock
@paul Supposedly it's popular and sells well. Plus, I've never regretted anything I've bought from Sonnet. Of course it has some bandwidth trade-offs at 8x, but considering that it eats only one slot but provides so many things I really couldn't complain; I already have full-speed NVME cards eating up slots for the big stuff.
Eric Peacock
@paul IMO Sonnet is weird about announcing and promoting products; I could swear I'm on their email marketing list, yet I never get anything about new releases. Instead things suddenly appear on their web site — like the three new PCI cards they just released, one of which is a solid-state RAID wet dream 8x NVME card.
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@evilpeacock this thing? https://www.sonnetstore.com/collections/computer-cards/products/sonnet-m2-4x4-pcie-card-silent Nice that its low profile but the HighPoint 1204 is a bunch cheaper and same thing (high profile though).
Eric Peacock
@paul Thats the 4x card (I've got one!) — there's now an 8x version. The only reason I didn't go with the HighPoint is that the drivers seem to cause a lot of grief with OS updates in forums. The Sonnet card is driverless, and fan-less. Their products aren't the cheapest for sure, but usually there's a good reason. https://www.sonnettech.com/product/m2-8x4-pcie-card/overview.html 
Kraig
@paul I *think* 4 can get more of the full throughput utilized by the i-o channel, whereas I believe 3 maxes out around 2800 MBps, reserving the rest for video? Or something? The more I search, the more confused I get. Which is highly related to how inconsistently different manufacturers handle the throughput for various devices…
Kraig
@apicultor @paul That post was informative, but not particularly recent… 
Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
@paul I wonder how that works because I don't think that should normally fit inside a PCIe x8 slot.
Apicultor 🐝
@paul Their Echo 11 Thunderbolt 4 Dock is great. I suspect this will be as well, and for the price it's good value.  |
@paul that is amazing! I've been hunting for something that would handle nvme but with the extras this offers I think it's a winner for sure