Khadas Mind Pro - PCIe bifurcation feature

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Is there any chance the Khadas team could add a PCIe bifurcation feature to the BIOS ?

There are interesting adapters like this one that could enable multiple NVME drives to be added to the Khadas Mind Pro (with a custom bottom metal cover of course)

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Hello @jhonny

The Mind Pro is a consumer electronics product, and this feature is not currently planned for development.

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It would be great if Khadas offered an “alternate” / add-on bottom that has more NVME drives that could plug into an existing nvme slot and give you 4 x nvme slots. Many consumer devices have pice-bifurcation.

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Hello @jhonny

Could you please let us know what use case requires multiple NVMe slots? I can forward your request to our product team. If your needs align with our product definition, you may see an “alternate” or add-on solution in the future.

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E.g.

  1. for a portable video editing system. 4tb (2tb + 2tb) is not enough and the 2230 drives don’t have dram so they are slow.
  2. If you wanted to make it a portable gaming machine, same thing … 4tb is not enough to store your collection. E.g. if I want to take this on a plane with me and use it with VR glasses, I would want to watch a few movies, play a few games.
  3. Use it as a home NAS. Its a super low powered device with transcoding capabilities, it just doesnt have the storage capability.

P.S. Thank you for your consideration. I’m enjoying my Khadas Mind Pro very much

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Also is it possible for the Khadas team to share the 3d step file for the bottom metal cover of the Mind Pro ?

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Hello @jhonny

Thank you for your feedback. I will pass your suggestion along to our product team.

Regarding the 3D files for the product — these are internal company documents and unfortunately cannot be shared externally at this time. We apologize for the inconvenience.

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No problem. Thank you for your consideration.