Greetings from the hinterland.
I have need/interest in having as many NvMe M.2 SSD's as I can get into my system.
The Board comes with 4 M.2 connections. 1 1Tb is used for my win 11 drive, 2 1Tb for gaming, and 1 3Tb NvMe for UHD movie archive for Plex.
UDH 2160p ATMOS movies are extremely large files, often 30 to 80 Gb. And they need fast read/write drives to prevent any buffering. I cannot use reg HDD, too slow.
I have my graphics card in the first or PCIe1 5.0 X16 slot from CPU.
The 2nd or PCIe2 3.0 X1 slot is empty.
PCIe3 3.0 X4 has a NvMe adapter card which is supposed to hold 2 drives. I can only get one to work at a time.
PCIe4 3.0 X1 has a adaptor card for multiport USB connections
So, currently I have 5 NvMe drives. 7Tb total. All close to full. I'm an idiot I know, but that's not what we're discussing at the moment.
My questions:
I have need/interest in having as many NvMe M.2 SSD's as I can get into my system.
The Board comes with 4 M.2 connections. 1 1Tb is used for my win 11 drive, 2 1Tb for gaming, and 1 3Tb NvMe for UHD movie archive for Plex.
UDH 2160p ATMOS movies are extremely large files, often 30 to 80 Gb. And they need fast read/write drives to prevent any buffering. I cannot use reg HDD, too slow.
I have my graphics card in the first or PCIe1 5.0 X16 slot from CPU.
The 2nd or PCIe2 3.0 X1 slot is empty.
PCIe3 3.0 X4 has a NvMe adapter card which is supposed to hold 2 drives. I can only get one to work at a time.
PCIe4 3.0 X1 has a adaptor card for multiport USB connections
So, currently I have 5 NvMe drives. 7Tb total. All close to full. I'm an idiot I know, but that's not what we're discussing at the moment.
My questions:
- Can I populate all 4 PCIe slots? I seem to remember reading somewhere that on this board, if the X4 slot was used, the e4 slot was not available or something like that. True or can I, for example, put NvMe adapters in all available slots? I couldn't find my original users manual and the one online was too brief.
- Why am I unable to use 2 x NVMe drives in the one adapter card I've got?