3 tiers of drives ?

[richardjb]

Check the number of PCIe channels available for this. You don't want to impact other aspects of the system.

Ahh this is something I don't yet understand, when do I hit a limit and what is the impact ie
If I have an 3950x on Aorus Extreme with

2x NVME PCIe v4
1x 2080ti PCIe v3
1x 10GB Fibre NIC​

I hope this isnt moving too far from storage.

 

[Mcnumpty2323]

Ahh this is something I don't yet understand, when do I hit a limit and what is the impact ie
If I have an 3950x on Aorus Extreme with

2x NVME PCIe v4
1x 2080ti PCIe v3
1x 10GB Fibre NIC​

I hope this isnt moving too far from storage.

It's in your motherboard manual
Depends on the board
Roughly
The more M2 drives you use
You will lose some sata ports
Though obviously there's a pci~e lane limit
I have 3 x M2
This loses me 2 sata ports
But also using 3 x sata drives
So not exactly starved of drives
And possibly able to add a pci~e
M2 card too

 

[Quartz]

Ahh this is something I don't yet understand, when do I hit a limit and what is the impact ie
If I have an 3950x on Aorus Extreme with

2x NVME PCIe v4
1x 2080ti PCIe v3
1x 10GB Fibre NIC​

I hope this isnt moving too far from storage.

I think that the specifications indicate that you're fine with two M.2. drives but you're over the top and will see some GPU performance degradation thanks to the NIC. Go Threadripper.