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by bpye 104 days ago
You can definitely get PCIe on some micro PCs. I have a Lenovo m920q that I use with a Mellanox NIC as my router.

You could certainly install a SAS or SATA controller, the issue would be having somewhere to mount the drives, and a way to power them. External SAS enclosures are not cheap.

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> External SAS enclosures are not cheap.

Sadly this is what I discovered.

I'd hoped there would be cheap external drive bays to mount HDDs in and connect to the mini PC over SATA.

But alas there isnt really.

It makes more sense to just use a PC Case and mount the drives that way.