[moondev]

You can do all that now with the mini, it has 4 thunderbolt ports.

[WaltPurvis]

I thought it was pretty clear I was talking about something much different from hanging multiple external devices off the back of a Mini.

[armitron]

Thunderbolt isn't nowhere near close in performance to built-in PCI express slots.

[moondev]

I guess it depends on the width you need. Indeed you won't be able to run x16 or x8 but x4 is possible which is enough for full-speed nvme or dual 10GbE