Some mainboards have very few PCI-e slots.
I ended up with a similar adapter because the onboard SATA on my board was flaky with optical drives and I rip CDs.
Comment on m2 to sata adaptor board suggestions?
Egonallanon@feddit.uk 3 days ago
What’s you use case here? If you just need more ports for data drives and have a free pcie slot a used SAS HBA cards and use breakout cables to give you a bunch more data ports. These are very durable cards.
HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
B0rax@feddit.org 3 days ago
I have one installed on a raspberry pi 5 with NVMe adaptor.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
mini home server based on an orange pi 5 plus. I have 2 M2 slots available, and I’m trying to use the M2 M-key slot for this. there are no full pcie slots on this board.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 3 days ago
What version and how many lanes does the Orange Pi have in that slot?
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
PCIe 3 x4 on the M-key, PCIE2 x1 on the E-key