Card and CPU upgrade for M.2 slot
Card and CPU upgrade for M.2 slot
Check your CPU's capabilities regarding M.2 slots and add-on card limits. Your Threadripper 3960X supports multiple M.2 drives, but ensure your motherboard can handle the RAID setup and available slots. Confirm with the manufacturer if adding more drives will affect performance or stability.
The system will employ PCIE and Threadripper with ample channels. How will you set up the RAID configuration?
Only 4/4x support and sufficient CPU plus chipset lanes are available.
This indicates you need space for four x16 slots plus one x8 slot, though the exact layout depends on your motherboard's configuration. I suspect at least one of these is reserved for your GPU. It’s unclear what the current M.2 slots are doing, but if your board still has an open x16 port, you should be able to install the Hyper M.2 alongside four 4x slots.
The biggest issue with this layout is extra delay when a core needs to reach memory that's physically connected to another core group. This can hurt performance for memory-heavy programs that aren't optimized for NUMA. I haven't found many benchmarks about SSDs discussing this, maybe because SSDs are usually slower than RAM, making the extra wait less critical.