Please help me find a PCIe card which takes 2x m.2 NVME drives

Journey · 20 Feb 2021 at 16:21

pc-guy said:
Whatever pice card you linked in the first post with dual slot would never work in the OP’s motherboard.

He hadn't linked his motherboard when I had replied...

I am not going to argue with you since you seem to only care about arguing. You are waffling about bifurcation when the board only has a free 4x PCI-E slot, so my advice is sound, I told him to ignore what I had linked after he added the board.

pc-guy · 20 Feb 2021 at 16:25

Journey said:
He hadn't linked his motherboard when I had replied...

I am not going to argue with you since you seem to only care about arguing. You are waffling about bifurcation when the board only has a free 4x PCI-E slot, so my advice is sound, I told him to ignore what I had linked after he added the board.

Read your own post mate. You started arguing with me by replying to a sound advice with some muddled up nonsense!

Journey said:
Well in this case it does, as the it is a physical 16x slot wired for 4x, and on PCI-E 2.0 which limits the performance to 4x 2.0 so ~ 2,000 MB/s.

also your first post where you put forward the dual slot m.2 PCIE card and said you have had it working in a system had zero qualifications which lead to OP directly relying on your clearly wrong advice thinking he can plug multiple m.2 drives into his second x16 slots.

If I didn’t post a reply to this thread the OP would have bought that card and realised it won’t work. And only then did you correct yourself.

You should have qualified your advice with hardware requirements regardless if the OP gave you his motherboard specification or not. As these dual or quad slot m.2 cards clearly needs CPU and BIOS support for recognition of installed drives.

your lack of experience in this tells me you have no idea what you saying or doing tbh. And calling me rambling....

then pull out some enterprise solution with a starting price of £500 for a basic raid function to justify yourself is pathetically and complete off the topic.

Journey · 20 Feb 2021 at 16:30

pc-guy said:
Read your own post mate. You started arguing with me by replying to a sound advice with some muddled up nonsense!

Ermm... it is a 4x PCI-E 2.0 slot so it limited to a complete and utter theoretical maximum throughput regardless if it could be bifurcated or not.

He asked what the maximum speed he would be able to get through the slot was, my answer was precise.

See you later, thanks.

pc-guy · 20 Feb 2021 at 16:32

Journey said:
Ermm... it is a 4x PCI-E 2.0 slot so it limited to a complete and utter theoretical maximum throughput regardless if it could be bifurcated or not.

He asked what the maximum speed he would be able to get through the slot was, my answer was precise.

See you later, thanks.

I dread what system you build. Can you let me know who you work for please so I can note to avoid them like a plague. Thanks.

3080guy · 21 Feb 2021 at 22:17

Thanks for all the info guys, got there in the end. Cheers.

Hotwired · 21 Feb 2021 at 22:36

The arguing

Journey · 22 Feb 2021 at 00:00

3080guy said:
Thanks for all the info guys, got there in the end. Cheers.

Glad you got it sorted, sorry about the other guy they seem to like to cause lots of arguments for the sake of it.

3080guy · 23 Feb 2021 at 12:28

Couple more questions guys.
1) If I bought this, would it run a two m.2 nvme card in my mobo which does not support bifurication, because it supports hardware raid?
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus...roller-card-v2-90mc06p0-m0eay0-cc-001-as.html

Or not, because my bios does not support PCIe bifurication as discussed, despite the raid.

To confuse matters/me, at some point I just asked OC shop what to buy, and got a reply before yesterday after a short delay.

They recommended the card above. But by that time, Id already ordered a cheap single m.2 card which did not arrive on the delivery date (yesterday/amazon) so I may still be able to cancel that and get the board above, if is likely to work on my current motherboard.

It should work with 1 m.2 card now
But will it work with 2 m.2 cards now (or not, for the reasons already discussed).

Apologies if I seem a bit slow, but this looks like it has the hardware raid support which...bypasses the need for bios bifurication?
Thanks for the help

Journey · 23 Feb 2021 at 12:34

3080guy said:
Or not, because my bios does not support PCIe bifurication as discussed, despite the raid.

The RAID support is via the CPU, something called VROC on high-end Intel parts, not what you have. This in effect is still bifurcation as there isn't an actual hardware RAID chip on the Asus card itself.

If you want more details feel free to use the direct message system, you might need to configure your trust account first, little button at the bottom right of your post.

3080guy · 23 Feb 2021 at 13:13

Journey said:
The RAID support is via the CPU, something called VROC on high-end Intel parts, not what you have. This in effect is still bifurcation as there isn't an actual hardware RAID chip on the Asus card itself.

If you want more details feel free to use the direct message system, you might need to configure your trust account first, little button at the bottom right of your post.

Thanks for the help, its greatly appreciated, cheers Journey!

pc-guy · 25 Feb 2021 at 15:24

3080guy said:
Couple more questions guys.
1) If I bought this, would it run a two m.2 nvme card in my mobo which does not support bifurication, because it supports hardware raid?
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus...roller-card-v2-90mc06p0-m0eay0-cc-001-as.html

Or not, because my bios does not support PCIe bifurication as discussed, despite the raid.

this card wont work.

your board doesnt have bufurication. you cannot support more than 1 NVMe drive in your secondary X16 slot on that board.

VROC is a CPU raid feature even if you have a CPU with VROC support as the drives wont been seen by the CPU. You cannot get that addon card working because individual drives installed on that card wont be recognised by the board and CPU.

dont let someone confuse you with stuff.