Does anyone make a 5.0 PCIE To NVME where the card does the bifurcation? I have an Asus W680 which doesn’t have bifurcation. I have an empty 5.0 x16 slot but it’s running x8. It should be enough for four ssds (Seagate 530R 4TB) running 7,000mbps correct?
Do a Google search for “pcie nvme with bifurcation”. You will see quite a few hits.
I believe that it true, theoretically, in a perfect world and if the adapter supports PCIE 5.0, and I have not seen any yet, but maybe there is one out there.
Make sure you read the specs and requirements. For four NVMe drives, if it says you MUST have a x16 slot, then it is not what you want.
Here is an example of one that I personally would buy if I didn’t have bifurcation on my motherboard. But look around.
Good luck and if you purchase an adapter, please post a follow-up and let people know how it went.
I am running a Sonnet McFiver on one of my systems. 10GB Ethernet and 2 NVME slots. I am bifurcating my single PCI16 slot.
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A PCIe 3.0 x16 or x8 switch card to 4*4 U.2 or M.2 is quite possible.
PCIe 4.0 will cost more than your motherboard.
PCIe 5.0, I dare not even consider…
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