Looking for a pcie riser for Lenovo p320 tiny

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I was working on a x86 router.
Found a used Lenovo P320 tiny online.
To my surprise it does not have the property pcie riser installed.
I have a 4x nic which has to go in there.
Off hand searching showed it is available on ebay.com.
I have attached pictures showing the pcie port and a picture of the pcie riser.
Would be obliged if someone could locate one riser for me.
 

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As I couldn't find the pcie riser card , I took another approach.
Mods please close this thread.
 

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ibose said:
You can try in Ebay, I saw a few listings but they are based out of China. I spoke to one of the sellers and the shipping was coming out to be prohibitively expensive so gave up. Alternately, if you have someone coming over from umrika, try this -

01AJ940 Lenovo Pcie16 Riser Card

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I was working on a NAS:-
The solution I found was to use an Optane NVME drive in one of the NVME slots. Linux sees it as 2 drives the 32gb Optane cache as one and the remaining 512gb of SSD as another if we disable the Intel driver from the BIOS. So I'll use the 32gb as a cache disk on the full 64tb drive array and the 512gb of NVME storage as the boot drive for proxmox and this is also where truenass resides . So using just one M.2 NVME 3.0 x4 slot, I am getting 2 drives that serves 2 different purposes. Shout out to @vivek90a for selling me the Optane drive. The second NVME slot is used for a PCIe 3.0 x4 dual 10gbps nic. Loaded the system with 64gb of ram . The inner PCIe 3.0 x8 slot will host a 8x HBA controller with dual external SFF-8088 connectors that can host upto 8 drives without Daisy chaining them.
Making this a killer NAS on a 35w CPU.
 
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Mann said:
The inner PCIe 3.0 x8 slot will host a 8x HBA controller with dual external SFF-8088 connectors that can host upto 8 drives without Daisy chaining them
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So you sourced the pcie adapter ? Interesting use case as a nas but that means you will need to house the board in a different case. And how are you looking to power it ?
For the one I have, I am looking to either convert it into pfSense router or hackintosh. For my Nas, I found it simpler to pull a T cpu out one of these older tinypcs and put it in a old GA-H97N board and add a 6 port SATA card. I got support upto 12 HDDs but currently using 6 HDDs and 2 SSDs as cache for Xpenology DSM 7.
 
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To power it I also bought a Lenovo 170w 19v psu again from @vivek90a. Using two buck converters for 5v and 12v and a sata power cable from a modular PSU.
For the case I'll just double sided tape the tiny to a 4bay HDD cage.
And I don't yet have the PCIe rise
r, but working on sourcing 2 of them from China.
 
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vivek90a said:
interesting project, is it going to serve as NAS
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Yes, using it as a Nas is my current project. If the 4 core 7400T is lacking, I would then reconsider another Lenovo p340 or p350. But rest of the components would be the same. Simple cntl+C / cntl+V
Have most of the things besides the riser.
Let me know if you guys are interested in a build log.
 
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So I have the HBA card , and I think it'll fit famously, once I have the riser.
But again there is Plan B :)
 

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So I have the HBA card , and I think it'll fit famously, once I have the riser.
But again there is Plan B :)
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Great. Currently I was also in the same page like you.

I have got m920q with one NVMe port. I'm planning to build the NAS through HBA card on it. Could you share your experience how you ended up for your NAS?

1. How you sourced the HDD cage? Seems costly?
2. How did you sourced the PCIe raised for HBA card? Are you able to close the enclosure? HBA card model?
3. How was the HBA card power usage and temperature. Is your MiniPC able to keep up the HBA card cool ?
4. Would you recommend using mini PC for NAS build?
 
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1. How you sourced the HDD cage? Seems costly?
2. How did you sourced the PCIe raised for HBA card? Are you able to close the enclosure? HBA card model?
3. How was the HBA card power usage and temperature. Is your MiniPC able to keep up the HBA card cool ?
4. Would you recommend using mini PC for NAS build?
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1)https://ibhejo.com/startech-com-4-b...3-5in-sas-ii-sata-iii-6-gbps-hdd-hsb4satsasba
2)Bought one from @aasimenator
3)Works Great no problems with temps etc.
4)I fancied a super small, hot swappable, super powerfull NAS so I build one. Honestly if you are ok with a bigger size it will be far cheaper.
 
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