Recent content by Angstromm

Right, agree, more opportunities for things to go awry. And this is for critical data transport, backups, etc. Don't want things getting FUBAR on me. I guess I could try it and run extensive testing to see if there are any potential issues. Hey, and thanks again!

Thanks SkyNetRising, appreciate you responding. I'd like to keep the top slot for the greater bandwidth it offers (or OS drive). So, if possible, I'd like to fine another viable solution. But if nothing else suffices, then yeah, that's the way I'll have to go...

Great suggestions, thestryker, thanks! Yeah, I could lose the PCIe 5.0 drive, but bummer! That, of course, is the cleanest solution but the loss of all that performance...sigh. I also, at some point, was planning to set this up as a desktop computer and might want to game some, so keeping the...

Thanks USAFRet, appreciate the response and suggestion. I want a compact solution and my 8-bay, basically 8"-9" cube case (Jonsbo N3) works really well for my needs.

I have an NGFF NVME M-Key PCI Express to SATA 3.0 6Gbps 5 Port Adapter Card but discovered that the M.2 slot I want to use is on the back of my mobo, so no clearance to run SATA cables off the adapter. I see only two potential solutions: 1. Make a cutout in case under the mobo's M.2 location...

So far, all the laptops I've looked at only support 1 M.2 Gen4 slot, the other M.2 slot being Gen3. This of course nullifies any benefit to running RAID-0. Bummer. Is anyone aware of any laptops that support 2 Gen4 slots? Or is this situation a result of current limits in the technology?

Thank you for the fulsome review, appreciate it! There are a couple of critical (to me) pieces of info missing in the review: 1. Only one of the two M.2 slots supports PCIe Gen4 speeds; the other slot is only Gen3. Very odd, that! And a deal breaker for me. That means a RAID-0 config will be...

No real solution here; just commiseration. Apparently, this is an issue a number of X79 Deluxe owners have been experiencing—check over at [H]ardForum to see similar posts. Here’re all the trouble shooting steps I took before getting an RMA from Asus: Checked and reinstalled latest drivers...