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What's a fax?

There is just a plx chip on the nvme card to divide the lanes up, it's the reason that card is so expensive. Your machine would see the drives just like normal. I've got a asus x299 workstation board which has plx chips onboard to give more pcie slots, which is ironically why the bifurcation from the CPU doesn't work on that motherboard. So my nvme drives have to go through 2 plx chips (1 on the motherboard and 1 on the nvme card) before getting to the CPU, and they work just fine. There are some lower cost brands like Syba. SI-PEX40152 is a quad m.2 board.

No bifurcation needed for this card. I've got the 4 nvme slot version and it works fine. Just pricey.... https://www.highpoint-tech.com/ssd/ssd7140a-overview

Bigger UPS, as the battery ages it will lose capacity and you will have even less time. Maybe not enough to shutdown.

I've been using a HDhomerun tuner for several years with no issues, works great. First with a HTPC running JRiver, now with Unraid and Emby docker. Emby handles all the live tv and recording. They are basically set and forget.

That's interesting. I got so tired of hearing the high pitch whine that I tossed a water block on it. I remember looking around forums for a way to slow it down, but never found anything. The P state looks like it changed. P0 is high performance, P8 would be some throttled down state.

LG WH16NS60 with makemkv, supports 4k blurays with firmware update. Also a pioneer drive for standard blurays, can't remember the model. I've had others in the past, never had any trouble with any working with makemkv, so I'm not sure if there's a best. For direct play I've tried using a windows 10 VM with a passthrough blu-ray drive with anydvdhd, but it just wasn't reliable unless I passed through the entire sata controller the drive was on. Realistically I can rip a disc and have it playing in 30-40 minutes, so I just gave up on direct playing them.

Confirming that this works for motherboard onboard NICs as well. On a X299 board with (1) Intel 219V and (1) Intel 210AT, the 210 would show up for pfsense, but not the 219V. Putting them on the same Bus in the XML as described above allowed pfsense to see both of them and it's working fine. Thanks