M.2 PCI-e

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M.2 PCI-e 2017-02-15 03:10:51 Post No. 58951811
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M.2 PCI-e Anonymous 2017-02-15 03:10:51 Post No. 58951811 [Report]

I dunno if /g/ is the place for this, but I want to build a thing.

Basically I want to figure out how to build a PCI-e M.2 adapter, I've seen x4 cards that house 1 or 2 M.2 cards, usually with the second hooked up to a SATA port.

What I'm looking to do, however, is to figure out how that works, then scale it to x16 so I can mount 4 x M.2 cards.

Once I get it working, I can look at things like raid configurations, however the first step is simply to get the cards mounted and showing up individually, whereby I can set up a software RAID0 or RAID10.

I'm a software engineer in a hardware engineering team, with access to pretty much any equipment I'd need, short of the chips such as PCI-e bridges.

So how about it, anyone know how to go about it, or even have a card on hand that I can take a closer look at?

Anonymous 2017-02-15 05:10:08 Post No.58952897
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Anonymous 2017-02-15 05:10:08 Post No.58952897 [Report]

Bump?

Anonymous 2017-02-15 05:15:07 Post No.58952939
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Anonymous 2017-02-15 05:15:07 Post No.58952939 [Report]

Why not ask the team you work with, or are you in the remedial school team?

Anonymous 2017-02-15 05:24:54 Post No.58953019
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Anonymous 2017-02-15 05:24:54 Post No.58953019 [Report]

>>58952939

I have, the lead electrical engineer has asked for high-res images of an existing adapter card. His team is under the pump hard at the moment, so I'm trying to reduce the amount of his time I waste to a minimum so I can use him more during the physical build of a prototype.

If I ask too much of him I'll end up having to trade favours in the form of giving him more access to my software guys, and they are already overburdened after I lost my best guy.

Plus I'm trying to do as much as I can without someone holding my hand, learning more on his side of the house can only make us better at working together on our joint projects - this is as much a learning exercise for me as anything else.

Anonymous 2017-02-15 05:51:25 Post No.58953207
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Anonymous 2017-02-15 05:56:26 Post No.58953253
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Anonymous 2017-02-15 05:56:26 Post No.58953253 [Report]

>>58953207
https://www.thedebugstore.com/squid-pcie-x16-m2-ssd-sku-086-01-fs-16.html

Anonymous 2017-02-15 06:02:30 Post No.58953291
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Anonymous 2017-02-15 06:02:30 Post No.58953291 [Report]

>>58951811
This shit already exists.

Anonymous 2017-02-15 06:47:30 Post No.58953653
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Anonymous 2017-02-15 06:47:30 Post No.58953653 [Report]

>>58953253
>>58953207
That's mighty expensive, but exactly what I want kinda.

I just need to step it up to NVMe support and PCI-e 3. Thanks mighty neckbeards.

I wonder about raid too, though I guess I'd take NVMe over RAID

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