M.2 To Sata Adapter

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Hello,

I wrote with my provider and I have only space for one more HDD. But the board has 2 M.2 slots. Can i use this adapter for the disks? Does anyone have experience with it and is it reliable and compatible with Linux (especially Proxmox)

Namvo M2 NGFF NVME M-Key PCI Express zu SATA 3.0 6 Gbps 6-Port Adapter Konverter Festplatten-Erweiterungskarte https://amzn.eu/d/0eTrlZdd

Or are there any better options to add more hdds? It has to be done easy and in one go, because I have to book a remote job for this task

Thank you!

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Should work just fine, just make sure they don’t jam the sata cables too strongly, otherwise that little pcb will crack.

ASM1166 is just a controller chip (meaning full bandwidth to each of the 6 ports), which is what you want. Plug and play on Debian Linux 12 (I’m using one on a PCIe card) so its supported on Proxmox as well (proxmox=debian).

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Thank you for your quick reply. Will order these then and send them to the datacenter. Hopefully they do a good job there.

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Do you have PCIe free slots? There are good adapters for those too.
Ouh, I just realised this is an old post. Nevermind.

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I’ve written countless responses only to delete them without posting once I realize I’m responding to years old post. There is something about how discourse is sneaking old posts to read that I keep falling victim of. I think the problem is it bundled “new and unread topics” together — which is bonkers if you think about it…

example right as we speak

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Yes I feel you with the old posts shown as new and even with “unread” replies. Kinda weird behavior of this forum.

But yes i ultimately went with an Pcie to SAS controller, because I changed from Tower housing to Rack build and the Hard drives are connected to an SAS board.

For my Server at home in the other hand I went with the one posted above, because I had already ordered it by that time and didn’t want to waste it. Works like charm for my truenas build.

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The adapter you linked is on the [ASM 1166]( ASM1166 | PCIe Gen3 x2 to 6 x SATA Controller|ASMedia Technology Inc.), which is pretty good. Just don’t cram it full of SSDs, and you won’t hit any performance issues with it:

Short Review: Edging ASMedia 1166 PCIe Gen3 x2 M.2 to 6 x SATA HBA Chipset. It doesn’t suck :+1: - Hardware Hub / Storage - Level1Techs Forums

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