Home Station 24.2

M.2 Slot

There is a spare M.2 M-key slot in the computer which can be use for adding extra hardware e.g. for an AI accelerator as seen below.

An alternative is to use the M.2 slot for a second NVMe SSD storage. The optional NVMe SSD should have as high Total Bytes Written (TBW) as possible.

We have been using the Silicon Power A60 1TB NVMe.

SP_NVMe

Our own test shows good performance for a 1TB NVMe drive at that price point with 5 years warranty and 600 TBW:

iozone -e -c -o -I -O -a -s 100M -r 4k -r 128K -i 0 -i 2

                                                              random    random     bkwd    record    stride                                    
              kB  reclen    write  rewrite    read    reread    read     write     read   rewrite      read   fwrite frewrite    fread  freread
          102400       4     2105     4562                      14928     4573                                                                
          102400     128     1628     3083                       4754     2950