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Doesn't really matter in the context of the question. I'd just like to know about any NVME-to-NVME RAID controller cards. But, I'm interested in the mirroring of RAID 1 for uptime rather than speed. Trying to recover from a hardware failure using a backup with today's data sizes takes days...

I understand that I would be sacrificing speed. I want the mirroring of RAID 1 but I don't necessarily need the increased speed RAID 1 could offer. There are adapters that convert m.2 sockets to PCIe sockets. They look to be basically socket adapters, there doesn't seem to be an IC involved...

An NVME slot doesn't have to support multiple drives for this to work. One of the features of a RAID controller is making multiple drives look like one drive.

I've been looking around for a RAID controller that plugs into an NVME slot, hosts NVME drives, and is bootable but haven't found anything (at all, let alone bootable). Has anybody seen something like this?

Oh, this is great! Can get them on Amazon, new, for less than $200. Other 24 port cards I'd seen were $1000+. I imagine the difference is that this one is meant for use with SATA specifically (with the idea that one would use SAS-to-SATA cables) while the others are meant for SAS. The Intel...

Did you have a recommendation for such a card in the same price range?

Haven't gotten that far, still working on it. I know I need a motherboard that supports bifurcation. The CPU just needs to support throughput as a NAS with 10GbE. I figure I might be able to get a motherboard that has a 16x and a 4x slot. I'm not sure if I can find a PCIe 4x 10GbE card. Maybe...

Any idea if these would work together? StarTech Quad M.2 PCIe Adapter Card PCIex16 QUADM2PCIECARDB M.2 NVME PCI-E PCIE 3.0 X4 X8 X16 To 6 Port 3.0 SATA Adapter Card 6Gbps Chassis server PC Computer Expansion

I don't know where I got the idea, but doesn't de-ionized water naturally re-ionize? How do you keep it de-ionized? Is this a rapid process? (What kind of time line are we talking about?) If so, what's the point?

I'm hoping to find somebody who was using Windows 7 from a disc they got when they went to one of Microsoft's free Windows 7 launch parties and then upgraded that system directly to Windows 10 via the current promotion. If you're such a person, could you download and run Microsoft's Volume...

"What do you look for in open-world/sandbox games? What aspects of it appeal to you or make the experience enjoyable? And as an extra follow-up, what do you think these kinds of games will be like in VR?" Playing as a world-building (or world-destroying) demigod in man's cloths. For...