Hi Homelab community, After spending lot of time on unraid and homelab subreddits, I finally decided to host a NAS and started purchasing hardware. I bought 8 x 8tb drives(6+2parity drive+ 2 spares) but having trouble finding a motherboards which support 2 pcie x8 cards. All the boards I am checking on Newegg have 1 x16, 1 x4(mechanically x16), couple of x1(some boards have mechanically x16 slots but electrically 3+ slots are x1) Seems like I am missing something as I couldn’t be the first person who is looking to use 2 pcie slots. I want to use an HBA card (requires one x8 slot) and dual 10gbps nic (requires one x8 slot)
I am open to AMD/Intel though leaning more on Intel due to qsv i5-12600k + LGA 1700 motherboard Or 7600 + AM5 motherboard
Any help would be appreciated
Bingo!!
I will check the board manual for confirmation.
Reg why I am looking for x8 slot is that all the dual 10gbps cards I found are pcie3 x8. Can I use an x8 card in x4 electronic slot and will it have half max bandwidth ie 4GB/s instead of 8GB/s? or system doesn’t recognize it?