Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources 5.7.x

[Peter Humphrey]

On Tuesday, 9 June 2020 16:45:56 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hello, Peter.
>
> Either an annoyance, or some potentially useful info:
>
> On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 15:46:43 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > I'll try this in a minute - thanks for the idea. I've stuck with device
> > names so far because (i) I can read them, and (ii) I can't ever have
> > more than one NVMe device in this box.
>
> If the reason for the "can't ever" is the lack of M2 slots on your
> motherboard, you can get a PCIe board with an M2 slot on it.  This way
> you can get two NVMe devices in a single box.  Provided you've got enough
> PCIe lanes, and suchlike.  This is precisely my setup, where I've got two
> 500 Gb NVMe's in a raid-1 configuration.

I've heard of that arrangement, but I haven't looked into it because the spec 
says the M2 device occupies both PCI-x slots. There may be ways round this, 
but my 256GB drive is enough for me; I do have a couple of 1TB SATA SSDs as 
well.

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Regards,
Peter.