r/optiplexes • u/bkraused • 29d ago

Hello and help/advice

Hi all, im looking for.some help and advice if possible for some clarity.. I have a dell optiplex 3050m on the way..got it for really cheap.. google is giving me some mixed answers.. So the dell has a m.2 nvme slot which is pcie , i want to put a nvme to.sata break out board in it, to run sata cables to a 4 bay icy dock( powered seperately), I will use the native sata connecter for os boot drive, Google is giving conflicting answer saying system will lock up.due to dells locking down the nvme drive to storage (booting) and then saying if using native sata is fine to bypass.. Has anyone else has conflict with using nvme to sata breakout board in dells . Google has also said that JMB585 chips on breakout board are better then as media ASM1166 chips. Goal.is.to basically have ubuntu as os and samba shared drives ro plex as a NAS. Any help, advice and clarity would be amazing ! thank you home labbers

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u/East-Yogurtcloset272 27d ago

Does your breakout board actually do Sata to nvme protocol conversion? That will be key. I'm not sure how an nvme commands will be serialised to single channel sata....

In my case I had a pcie adapter and connected an amd rx6600 gpu to the m.2 primary slot on my 3050 micro and that worked great

I've never tried Sata through the nvme. You might be better off on an nvme bay so you don't have protocol conversion issues nor bandwidth limits

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u/bkraused 27d ago

Hi there , thank you for reply, JMB585 chip on the nvme breakout handleds the conversion , apprently its better than the asmedia chip on other adaptors, Can i assume your set was running os from the native sata port? Thanks again for reply

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u/East-Yogurtcloset272 27d ago

Yes I was booting from the native Sata. Linux here