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You can use pcie switches on pcie x4 to 4xM.2x4 drives.
by zekica 4y ago
You can use pcie switches on pcie x4 to 4xM.2x4 drives.
- willis936 4y agoIf your motherboard is new enough. I run my home NAS+server on 2013-era enterprise hardware and use a Supermicro AOC-SHG3-4M2P to make it work.
- loeg 4y agoThe active pcie switches are a lot more expensive than the passive splitters that only work on systems with pcie bifurcation.
- amluto 4y agoFor a large scale storage system (more NVMe devices than PCIe lanes), a switch is mandatory. Or a “RAID” card or another switch-like device.
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- fomine3 4y agoNowadays some recent consumer platforms supports PCIe x16 to x4/x4/x4/x4 bifurcation that should be enough. For RAID, switching (dynamically shares bandwidth between SSDs) is nonsense, isn't it?