The slots do not support bifurcation, so any adaptors will either need their own controller, or will be limited to 2 drives if you want to stick with NVMe drives.
System also supports 2 regular SATA SSD drives, 2.5", which is a lot easier to install than an additional NVMe drive, in 2 caddy's located in the bottom of the case.
It also supports a 3.5" drive at the front of the case with a caddy.
I have an R10 with the 512 Boot drive. I bought from Amazon a 1TB NVMe and a 2TB SSD (Both Samsung EVOs. And I also bought a PCIe riser card because there's no available extra NVMe slot. It's not expensive, has a heatsink for the drive and fits below the GPU in the case. Also Amazon.
The SSD slots nicely into one of 2 available brackets on the bottom of the case. SATA and power cables are also already in place.
I also removed the metal box where the 3.5" drive goes, So I can fit a second front fan in the future.
My machine boots from the 512GB, has apps and games on the 1TB and file storage etc on the 2TB
Thanks! I wasn't sure if there were any SSD drive bays or not. The power and sata cables are included in the computer? I'll buy some if need be, but it would be very nice if they were already included, and just want to make sure.
I'm not familiar with what bifurcation is. I planned on most likely getting a PCIE adapter and adding a second NVMe drive using that, but am not sure what adapter to get and what NVMe drives will work with the adapter and the computer. Are there any adapters that you recommend? I'm looking to most likely get a Sabrent rocket NVMe SSD drive to add, but as far as I'm aware there's only one PCIe slot so only one adapter and one additional NVMe drive will fit.
There are 2 types of adaptors for this purpose. One that relies on bifurcation, and 1 that does not.
Bifurcation is where you can split the PCIe lanes on a slot in sections. So for example a drive that requires 4 lanes which is almost all of them, can be installed in an adaptor card together with 3 other drives, and the X16 lane can be split up in 4 times X4 lanes. That is called bifurcation, and not supported on these systems. Adaptor cards that rely on bifurcation are the cheaper ones.
The second option is an adaptor card that does not rely on bifurcation, but that requires the adaptor card to have a controller in order to share the existing lanes amongst the drives. These are the expensive ones.
There's a thread on the forums somewhere about experiences from other users with these expansion cards. Success rate seemed to be hit and miss.
Because the R10 only supports 8 lanes on the X16 slots, your options are limited.
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The slots do not support bifurcation, so any adaptors will either need their own controller, or will be limited to 2 drives if you want to stick with NVMe drives.
System also supports 2 regular SATA SSD drives, 2.5", which is a lot easier to install than an additional NVMe drive, in 2 caddy's located in the bottom of the case.
It also supports a 3.5" drive at the front of the case with a caddy.
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October 28th, 2021 21:00
forget the 3.5" Drive.
I have an R10 with the 512 Boot drive. I bought from Amazon a 1TB NVMe and a 2TB SSD (Both Samsung EVOs. And I also bought a PCIe riser card because there's no available extra NVMe slot. It's not expensive, has a heatsink for the drive and fits below the GPU in the case. Also Amazon.
The SSD slots nicely into one of 2 available brackets on the bottom of the case. SATA and power cables are also already in place.
I also removed the metal box where the 3.5" drive goes, So I can fit a second front fan in the future.
My machine boots from the 512GB, has apps and games on the 1TB and file storage etc on the 2TB
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October 29th, 2021 13:00
Thanks! I wasn't sure if there were any SSD drive bays or not. The power and sata cables are included in the computer? I'll buy some if need be, but it would be very nice if they were already included, and just want to make sure.
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I'm not familiar with what bifurcation is. I planned on most likely getting a PCIE adapter and adding a second NVMe drive using that, but am not sure what adapter to get and what NVMe drives will work with the adapter and the computer. Are there any adapters that you recommend? I'm looking to most likely get a Sabrent rocket NVMe SSD drive to add, but as far as I'm aware there's only one PCIe slot so only one adapter and one additional NVMe drive will fit.
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October 29th, 2021 16:00
There are 2 types of adaptors for this purpose. One that relies on bifurcation, and 1 that does not.
Bifurcation is where you can split the PCIe lanes on a slot in sections. So for example a drive that requires 4 lanes which is almost all of them, can be installed in an adaptor card together with 3 other drives, and the X16 lane can be split up in 4 times X4 lanes. That is called bifurcation, and not supported on these systems. Adaptor cards that rely on bifurcation are the cheaper ones.
The second option is an adaptor card that does not rely on bifurcation, but that requires the adaptor card to have a controller in order to share the existing lanes amongst the drives. These are the expensive ones.
There's a thread on the forums somewhere about experiences from other users with these expansion cards. Success rate seemed to be hit and miss.
Because the R10 only supports 8 lanes on the X16 slots, your options are limited.