How many NVMe drives can you have at once ?

[River]

NVMe SSD drives.

Sorry.

Does it depend on the mobo ?

[Shaggy]

Depends on the mobo.. You can add additional drives with a PCIE adapter card.

[mtono]

it does depend on the mobo. some have two slots, some only one.
i dont know if there are adaptors or something like that to fit more NVMe SSD drives to a mobo.
my2ct.

[mtono]

Origineel geplaatst door Shaggy:

Depends on the mobo.. You can add additional drives with a PCIE adapter card.

i see

:-D

[🦜Cloud Boy🦜]

it depends on motherboard, also depends on pcie lanes which depends on CPU.

[Omega]

Depends on the platform. One, or a hundred.

[mtono]

Origineel geplaatst door Omega:

Depends on the platform. One, or a hundred.

interesting! can you explain the "hundred" thing?

[Omega]

Origineel geplaatst door owl rly?:

Origineel geplaatst door Omega:

Depends on the platform. One, or a hundred.

interesting! can you explain the "hundred" thing?

It was a hyperbole.

There is enterprise-class hardware available with have 24+ NVMe/U.2/CXL slots per server. But it is not a hardware segment I have huge familiarity with (It is kinda out of my price range).

[mtono]

ok. thank you very much, man!

[River]

Thank you everyone.

[_I_]

you can get usb nvme adapters
but dont, they are not any faster than any other sata ssd due to usb limits
only really useful for cloning os if upgrading a nvme on board with only 1 nvme slot

[ChickenBalls]

even 2 TB nvme ssds are cheap now
so it doesnt make sense to buy a bunch of low capacity ssds

[Andrius227]

There are pcie adapters with up to 4 nvme slots.

[Cathulhu]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFwFDZDQWAA
You can go to ridiculous amounts if you have the money for it.

[Overseer]

Current gen is limited to 28 PCIe lanes. But the chipset takes some of these. So at least AMD boards can have a maximum of 2 M.2 PCIe 5.0 slots. The rest is all about how much bandwidth you want to share across as many M.2 slots as you can get to work through whatever you craft.

[_I_]

pci-e lanes can be divided automatically

one lane can serve several devices at the same time