Lol, hopefully temporary in the sense that I only need it to work for a couple of minutes, long enough to boot a test system with the card installed in order to find out if the motherboard for which I can’t locate a manual supports PCIe bifurcation. If the board recognizes all the drives then I’ll shut it down and properly install 4 full-length (2280) Samsung drives which I have yet to order.
Nope, but being Mr. Magoo, I unknowingly bought another motherboard that turns out to have three M.2 slots on board in addition to plenty of x16 slots so I can just install single-drive M.2 adapters in each slot without needing bifurcation support. I put an i9 in it and holy shit is it ever fast, especially with NVMe RAID.
Only temporary in the sense that the tape will fail as soon as it starts to warm up from these SSDs and latent heat from other components?
Lol, hopefully temporary in the sense that I only need it to work for a couple of minutes, long enough to boot a test system with the card installed in order to find out if the motherboard for which I can’t locate a manual supports PCIe bifurcation. If the board recognizes all the drives then I’ll shut it down and properly install 4 full-length (2280) Samsung drives which I have yet to order.
Even when they do give the manual they rarely state and sonetimes randomy change between bios updates… Did it work? I need to know!
Nope, but being Mr. Magoo, I unknowingly bought another motherboard that turns out to have three M.2 slots on board in addition to plenty of x16 slots so I can just install single-drive M.2 adapters in each slot without needing bifurcation support. I put an i9 in it and holy shit is it ever fast, especially with NVMe RAID.