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I have a NAS Thecus 5500 http://www.thecus.com/product.php?PROD_ID=22 with a JBOD 4TB drive EXT4 which I am copying through windows 10 Workstation i7 16GB to a NAS Thecus 6850 http://www.thecus.com/product.php?PROD_ID=71 with 6 x 4TB RAID 5 btrfs. It is through a 1000 ethernet connection. The...

I was wondering why a u.2 adapter only feeds into 1 m.2 device. They support 8 lanes from a pcie 3.0 adapter to u.2? Is this more efficient or it runs as a 4 lane adapter? https://www.addonics.com/products/ad25m2u.2.php Why I say this as this I am a storage newcomer and saw this pcie 3.0 16...

probably Sata II only https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Desktop-Hardware-and-Upgrade-Questions/How-to-get-SATA-3-6-0-Gb-s/td-p/6005868

same problem. Wanted to plug in Addonics AD4SA354M2 3.5" Quad M2 (NGFF) SSD Drive. So the HDD sata II mechanical is not the limiting factor

1. What do you think a RAID (of whatever type) will do for you? Provide redundancy and speed. A hardware raid may reach up to 12 2. What do you use this system for? Odd games but primarily wordprocessing alongside photo and data backups 3. What are the rest of the parts? a raid 10 on RST...

Is it a good idea to use raid 10 on my old motherboard with a hardware controller or buy a new motherboard with an sata ssd / nvme raid solution? I see much confusing chatter about sata ssd / nvme

Does anyone know if the X399 GIGABYTE Designare EX motherboard has a Thunderbolt 3 card available yet or rumored to be available sometime? Am I right that this October 2017 released board is the only X399 Threadripper Thunderbolt option? Any thoughts if it is being held off because of new...

Can I boot to Windows 10 x64 on an m2 SSD 32GB SATA II or small HDD Sata 2, then have the boot loader redirect to the OS installed on another drive such as a PCIe 16 holding a PCIe x4 adapter with a nvme storage card? In this way I have fast boot from a small drive, overcome the limitation...