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Well, my wife's gaming PC ran linux for the last few years. And, as a non-technical person, she never noticed, nor had issues playing games.

Most of my steam library works, either native or via proton (happens automatically)

Protondb.com

My method was easy.

Completely removed and eradicated windows, and forced myself to adapt and learn Linux.

Used it for gaming and everything. No regrets.

If your motherboard doesn't support bifurcation, you can always use these cards: https://static.xtremeownage.com/blog/2022/r720xd-bifurcation/

I have had good experiences with them.

Am... I the only one who literally wouldn't even notice lemmy.world going down.... if it were not for the posts they are making, regarding their downtime?

I actually looked up the chip numbers, and its a "splitter".

I, don't know WHY there is a splitter, as a splitter isn't needed, and these cards are advertised to only work on motherboards supporting bifurcation. However, there is indeed, a splitter.

The documentation is also, REALLY horribly translated.

Note: Without pcie splitter function in this host adapter (ASM1182E chip), so motherboard must support PCIe Bifurcation. Otherwise, only one M.2 PCIe SSD will be recognized. If you are not sure PCIe Bifurcation of your motherboard, please consult motherboard munufacture or contact us via amazon message

Here is the documentation for the chip itself: https://www.asmedia.com.tw/product/213yQcasx8gNAzS4/b7FyQBCxz2URbzg0

I, am not 100% certain how, where, or why it fits in there. Perhaps, its for link power management? Or something.

But, I can confirm, these cards DO require bifurcation to be enabled. Without bifurcation, you only see the first drive.

I honestly just started using it again a week or two ago. I have been extremely pleased with the features it offers.

The bottom screenshot, is from proxmox, which is the top-level OS in play.

From https://lemmyonline.com/comment/768355

A bit of everything. Publicly facing websites. Lemmyonline.com. A few popular discord bots.

Linux ISO collection and streaming.

Lots of automation.

Lots of things around software development. Lots of things around systems and network administration.

Some kubernetes too.

A bit of everything, and nothing in particular.

I'm out of room to add more drives!

Every one of my servers is basically completely full on disks. I need more servers.

Hopefully that doesn't happen soon! I don't have too much room for more flash, lol.

But, I have quite a bit of available space, so, there shouldn't be any concerns. Also- tomorrow, after a few adapters arrives, I'll be adding another 2x 1T flash drives my Optiplex 5060 SFF.

The two ZFS pools are only 4 devices. One pool is spinning rust, the other is all NVMe.

I don't use raid 5 for large disks, and instead go for raid6/z2. Given z2 and striped mirrors both have 50% overhead with only 4 disks- striped mirrors has the advantage of being much faster, double the IOPs, and faster rebuilds. For these particular pools, performance was more important than overall disk space.

However, before all of these disks were moved from TrueNAS to Unraid- there was a 8x8T Z2 pool, which worked exceptionally well.

Backups backups backups.

Anything you don't want to lose, follow the 3.2.1. rule.

Snapshots / Raid are not backups.

Also, unraid is fantastic for handling bulk media. ZFS is fantastic for keeping things safe. (and fast).

And ceph is great for squeezing 20k IOPs out of 6 million IOPs worth of enterprise SSDs!

incumbent homeowners have locked in interest rates that make it irrational to sell, so those homes stay off the market, too.

That is the exact reason I want to move, and build... but, am not doing so. My current interest rate is under 2%. If I were to get a new mortgage, it would cost me a LOT of money due to the current interest rates.... Especially when I want to buy a house worth quite a bit more than my current home.

There are no free PCIe slots left! That is a huge problem!

I'm doing pretty good so far.

I have not noticed any issues with it.

And- prior to Jan of this year, I used two of them in an r720xd because it didn't support bifurcation. And- can't say I ran into any issues.

I also, have not checked to see if it was hot either though.

I believe it's much more common places these days.

Although, of the.... 10 or so computers I have laying around my house, only two of them supports bifurcation.... although, most of my computers are a decade old.

If only federation existed... and other instances existed....

Whats the problem?

Each NVMe uses 4 lanes. For each of these x8 slots, they have two NVMes, for a total of 8 lanes.

The x16 slot already has 4x NVMe in it, lol. The other x16 slot has a GPU, which is located in that particular slot due to the lovely 3d-printed fan shroud.

One of the other full-height x8 slots also has a PLX switch, and is loaded with 4 more NVMes.