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    Difficulty understanding PCIe bifurcation r.e. adding an NVMe SSD adapter card

    Ok cool. I think your mention of hardware RAID when I had not suggested it in the thread made me second-guess my assumptions. But by the sounds of it, I'm not doing any hardware RAID here.
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    Difficulty understanding PCIe bifurcation r.e. adding an NVMe SSD adapter card

    This is the consensus among everyone and I have taken it on board already. Has anything I've said made you think I am going to do hardware RAID? Maybe what I'm saying is hardware RAID without me realising?: These parts a. Plus something like this to connect the 3rd SSD to the mobo Plus any...
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    Difficulty understanding PCIe bifurcation r.e. adding an NVMe SSD adapter card

    Thank you for all the advice, this is really useful. As I understand it, unRAID is a bit more user-friendly for beginners? In terms of my use-case, it's really just going to be media storage and music streaming, and occasional movie streaming. Probably using Plex, Jellyfin or Enby. I ended up...
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    Difficulty understanding PCIe bifurcation r.e. adding an NVMe SSD adapter card

    Thanks, but wow that's expensive. I really only need 1 additional M.2 NVMe slot.
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    Difficulty understanding PCIe bifurcation r.e. adding an NVMe SSD adapter card

    Update: To recap, I bought these parts. I have listed the exact price I paid for each. I haven't built it yet. They are all in their individual boxes. And yes, I didn't pay for the RM650x as a friend gave me it for free. However, after some digging, I have found these parts (exact prices I...
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    Difficulty understanding PCIe bifurcation r.e. adding an NVMe SSD adapter card

    I've always said that I'll be going with UnRaid, TrueNas, or Proxmox, not Windows. Not sure exactly what you are advising against
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    Difficulty understanding PCIe bifurcation r.e. adding an NVMe SSD adapter card

    Cool. So to conclude, RAID Z5 should be possible to set up with 3x NVMe SSDs (with 1 of those SSDs connected via a PCIe x4 adapter?
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    Difficulty understanding PCIe bifurcation r.e. adding an NVMe SSD adapter card

    I think I am fairly committed to setting the 3 drives up in a way that allows for a single drive failure without any disruption. Further down the line, I would look to add further drives, which would add more usable space as well as more redundancy. I am going to back the whole array up on...
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    Difficulty understanding PCIe bifurcation r.e. adding an NVMe SSD adapter card

    Sorry if I'm wrong here, but I thought NVMe SSDs saturate up to 4 lanes quite easily? So why did you put it in a x1 slot? Does it perform a lot worse than if you gave the SSD 4 lanes? Are you saying that you pool your drives and then mirror them as backup? What is your personal backup solution...
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    Difficulty understanding PCIe bifurcation r.e. adding an NVMe SSD adapter card

    Could you send me a link to an example? Correct. Can you explain this a bit further? I don't know what the difference between software and hardware raid is - I haven't set it up yet and am pretty new to this. You're saying that software raid is better than hardware raid. Is software raid...
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    Difficulty understanding PCIe bifurcation r.e. adding an NVMe SSD adapter card

    Thanks for this! Yeah, the more I scratch my head over this, the more I'm inclined to follow your advice and just whack a simple M.2 adapter in the second x16 slot. But because I'm using this project to learn as much as possible, I would also like to iron out this more complicated approach...
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    Difficulty understanding PCIe bifurcation r.e. adding an NVMe SSD adapter card

    This is true, and I was already aware my motherboard doesn't support it (as I say in my original post). However, I am also aware that certain adapter cards exist which have chips on them (such as PEX8747 chips) which manage bifurcation themselves, which makes it possible to bifurcate on this...
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    Difficulty understanding PCIe bifurcation r.e. adding an NVMe SSD adapter card

    Read my post again, I think you missed something I say.
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    Difficulty understanding PCIe bifurcation r.e. adding an NVMe SSD adapter card

    Thanks, but (sorry if I didn't make this clear originally) I'm committed to using the 3x 4TB SSDs in a RAID configuration. I want 8TB usable space. So I really am just looking for responses that address my questions - both to actually achieve it as well as my pure desire to learn more about this.
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    Difficulty understanding PCIe bifurcation r.e. adding an NVMe SSD adapter card

    I've read some great threads on here on this topic, but I am struggling to know exactly what to do (and buy) in relation to my own issue. First, my setup. I haven't built this yet and they're all still individually boxed up, but I have all the following: Motherboard: MSI MPG Z390M GAMING EDGE...
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