What arm board :p
Honest question. All the ones I have seen are really awful and I would love to tinker with something that has real pcie (Ampere workstations do not count)
Both the ROCKPro64 and the NanoPi M4 from 2018 has a x4 PCIe 2.1 interface. Same goes for almost all RK3399 boards that care to expose the PCIe interface.
Update: there’s also the more recent NanoPC-T6 with the RK3588 that has PCIe 3.0 x4.
They could’ve exposed more SATA ports and / or PCI lanes and decided not to do it.
And… let’s not even talk about the SFF 8087 connector that isn’t rated to be used as an external plug, you’ll likely ruin it quickly with insertions and/or some light accident.
Everything was fine until…
Fucks sake. I’ve seen ARM board with PCI better than that.
What arm board :p
Honest question. All the ones I have seen are really awful and I would love to tinker with something that has real pcie (Ampere workstations do not count)
Both the ROCKPro64 and the NanoPi M4 from 2018 has a x4 PCIe 2.1 interface. Same goes for almost all RK3399 boards that care to expose the PCIe interface.
Update: there’s also the more recent NanoPC-T6 with the RK3588 that has PCIe 3.0 x4.
This boards seems extremely poorly designed, have a look at the CPU specs: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/97926/intel-atom-processor-c3758-16m-cache-up-to-2-20-ghz/specifications.html
They could’ve exposed more SATA ports and / or PCI lanes and decided not to do it.
And… let’s not even talk about the SFF 8087 connector that isn’t rated to be used as an external plug, you’ll likely ruin it quickly with insertions and/or some light accident.
PCIe 2 x4 is the same speed as PCIe 3 x2, no?