[gigel82]

Now we just need a super cheap SBC with tons of PCIe lanes to chuck all those old M.2 drives into.

[sheepscreek]

This has been my plan over the last few months! Finding a cheap PCIe 4 motherboard + CPU with many slots has been a challenge. Need PCIe 4 or else you’ll quickly saturate your bandwidth. Even with PCIe 4 - you still can. The fastest (affordable) network solution means using 10 GbE - which can be saturated by just one modern gen NVMe SSD :-/

[justinclift]

> The fastest (affordable) network solution means using 10 GbE ...

That's one of those "it depends" things. If you only have a small number of computers that need connecting, and you're ok with using 2nd hand gear... then 40GBe Mellanox adapters from Ebay are pretty affordable. eg stuff like this (there's a bunch):

* https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/293393033570

* https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/175163685084

Note - I don't know those sellers at all.

[wmf]

There's the Asustor although it only has one lane for each SSD.