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Not really. Each card would only get 8 lanes. Then no more then two NVME drives will work in the storage card and that only if the board has bifurcation support
by bigfuz 6y ago
Not really. Each card would only get 8 lanes. Then no more then two NVME drives will work in the storage card and that only if the board has bifurcation support.
For PCI-E 3.0 i can recommend a card with a Broadcom PEX 8724 controller. Works well with 4 drives and is not much more expensive. The fan is horrible:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001782779648.html https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001782779648.html
- w0utert 6y agoNot sure why this is downvoted. Almost all (if not all?) consumer motherboards will drop the 2 x16 slots to x8 mode if you insert anything in the second slot. So using a PCIe riser for NVME SSDs means your GPU will get less bandwidth. This may or may not be noticeable, if you are running PCIe 4 the x8 will definitely not bottleneck the GPU, but x8 PICe 3 lanes probably will, especially for cards with less VRAM.