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Although he likes to think he lives life in the fast lane, Neil Mohr isn’t sure what to do with 6TB of 3GB/s storage…
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Neil Mohr
is so old he remembers thinking a 16KB expansion pack was a bit over the top.
Here’s LVM reporting on the status of our RAID 5 build process.
How do you increase storage on a system with no more drive slots? That’s a reasonable question, especially when most modest motherboards only offer two NVMe slots.
As storage prices have spiked over the last year, it’s not too hard to believe you have a few older NVMes hanging around, or if you have a system with a smaller NVMe boot drive, you’re looking at options to expand your main storage pool. Sure, there are older SATA options, but why would you opt for 500MB/s speeds when even PCIe v3 NVMe offers 2GB/s? While speed is a consideration here, the real reason for this tutorial is about adding NVMe slots to a system – while 4+ SATA ports is the norm, NVMe numbers remain limited.