PCIe M.2 adapters - eviltoast

This isn’t specifically Home Assistant, but so many people seem to be using Frigate with Home Assistant it feels close enough.

I recently got my first camera. I tried ZoneMinder for a while, but have given up - just overwhelmed with false positives for fog, rain, insects etc. and not being able to tune them out. Most people seem to be going Frigate so I’ll give that a go.

I don’t really want to use a USB TPU (no real reason) and my current server has no Mini PCIe or M.2 slots. I recall seeing people say they had bad experiences with PCIe M.2 adapters.

Does anyone here have any experience to share about any specific adapter?

  • xylol@leminal.spaceEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I use a ton of pcie adapters at work, but not really sure what you are doing? Pcie to m.2? Almost all the ones I’ve used off of amazon have worked fine except a sabrent one, it worked fine for a m.2 drive to have an os but when I used it for testing drives it didn’t work, it also took up a whole x16 slot for no raisin

    We use ones that look like this