Comment on Pineboards AI HAT enables Hailo-8L and NVMe boot storage on a Pi 5Comments−jsheard2yManufacturers are pushing the Pi 5s PCIe interface to the absolute limit now, well beyond what's practical, but it's fun at least.https://geekworm.com/products/x1011Four NVMe drives multiplexed onto a single PCIe lane? Sure, why not!https://pineboards.io/products/hat-upcity-lite-for-raspberry...The OP also has a board which breaks the lane out to a full size PCIe slot, so you can put a 4090 in there. You shouldn't, but you can.−ssl-32yWe used to multiplex drives onto a SCSI bus.We also once multiplexed everything on a single ISA or PCI bus.It's not necessarily the most performant thing for parallel[ish] operations, but there's nothing broken about the idea. It works.
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Manufacturers are pushing the Pi 5s PCIe interface to the absolute limit now, well beyond what's practical, but it's fun at least.
https://geekworm.com/products/x1011
Four NVMe drives multiplexed onto a single PCIe lane? Sure, why not!
https://pineboards.io/products/hat-upcity-lite-for-raspberry...
The OP also has a board which breaks the lane out to a full size PCIe slot, so you can put a 4090 in there. You shouldn't, but you can.
We used to multiplex drives onto a SCSI bus.
We also once multiplexed everything on a single ISA or PCI bus.
It's not necessarily the most performant thing for parallel[ish] operations, but there's nothing broken about the idea. It works.