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AdrianB1 on May 29, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server

Very valid point, but I don't know how fast you will hit the chipset speed limits; that NIC is connected to the chipset that is connected to the CPU via a 4x PCIe link and from there to the nVME with 4x PCIe link. In theory you have 4 or 8 GB/sec max bandwidth, but the CPU-chipset link is not dedicated. If you go for Threadripper the math is very different, you have lots of direct CPU connections for (multiple) NIC and multiple nVME.

walrus01 on May 29, 2022 [–]

you may be referencing the original post's cpu/motherboard combo which is not the same as the pci-e bus/lanes, slot and setup on my home file server and desktop PC.

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