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Re:Upgrade Raspberry Pi 4 with a NVMe boot drive by brirec on Monday November 23, 2020 @10:27PM (#25194971)
What sort of distance are we talking? What sort of devices? Running a PCIe lane to a client seems a little odd to me, but I figure I’m missing context
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Re:Upgrade Raspberry Pi 4 with a NVMe boot drive by FullyFunctional on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @12:06AM (#25195459)
Up to 2 m over copper, longer over active optical. Why? Because of insanely low latency and very high bandwidth (PCIe gen 3 x4 in 2010!). No kernel involvement, app direct to storage. Way ahead of the time.
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