Motherboard to switchboard won't populate your PCIe slots properly
TheZachMueller · x · 2026-10-11
TheZachMueller notes that going motherboard → switchboard won't give you the populated PCIe slots needed to actually work, and that he typically avoids slimSAS because the adapters usually aren't slimSAS anyway.
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