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.
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.