Is the Cloud DMA client usable on a laptop with no free PCIe slot
Closed thread Closed by archivelaptop player. cloud dma sounds exactly like what i want on paper because the machine stays clean and there\'s nothing to rebuild, but the card still has to physically go in the machine and a laptop has no slot.
is this a non starter or is there a workaround. only thing i can think of is an external enclosure but i have no idea if that's a thing for this
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Replies are closedthe card is PCIe, so you need somewhere to put a PCIe card. a laptop with no slot and no thunderbolt enclosure is a non starter.
thunderbolt enclosure is a real route but it\'s fiddly and not every one works
how many laptops actually have thunderbolt though, most of the budget ones don't
not many, which is why most people on laptops just don\'t
honestly if you're on a laptop just run software. it's a fraction of the cost and the setup friction is zero.
that's kind of where i was landing. was hoping there was something clever.
the clever thing is a desktop. second hand office tower for the card if you ever want to go that route, but it's a whole project.
worth saying the software feature set is the same list anyway, you're not losing features by not going hardware
you are losing the architecture, that's the point of hardware. but you're not losing features, that's true.
right. software now, revisit if i ever move to a desktop. thanks all.