[enronmusk]

That's $550 on amazon/newegg. It's not in the same price range at all.

[p_ing]

Oh, my bad, I don't recall mentioning price in my post. Rather I mentioned a system that has the PCIe lanes to accomidate 2.5G NICs + 4 NVMe drives without compromises.

[akho]

For the price, you can get four N150, with 36 lanes. It's a pointless comparison.

[wokkel]

Use an odroid h4: 2x2.5gbe and a 4*1 m.2 bifurcation card to get 4 nvme drives there. Performance is limited due to ethernet anyway.