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PCIe bifurcation

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Hey y’all, I bought a x4x4x4x4 4 slots M.2 PCIe card foolishly thinking that if it fits in the slot, it would surely work. In the end, I got 2 of the 4 SSDs working on my old AM4 X470 chipset. I’m coming to you for advice what the cheapest way to get to use this would be. I’ve noticed that a lot of CPUs have a PCIe lane limitation of 28, just short of what I need (I’d like to run the SSDs but also a x16 GPU). I’m not too keen to buy a threadripper setup for this occasion…

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You don’t necessarily need a raid controller, I think a pcie bridge or switch chip will work too. They’re still expensive but they’re significantly less than $500.

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