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Morta

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Registered: 2019-07-07

Posts: 660

NVMe PCIe Card 4xM2 Slots

Hi

Is there a Card supported by ArchLinux like ASUS Hyper M.2 X16 Card ?

frostschutz

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Registered: 2013-11-15

Posts: 1,647

Re: NVMe PCIe Card 4xM2 Slots

driver-wise there is no issue

it mainly depends on hardware situation (depends on pcie bifurcation - so whether your mainboard/cpu supports splitting one x16 slot into x4 x4 x4 x4 - and of course there must not be a GPU in that slot)

that's why the description of those cards is also so strange, "supports up to 4". without bifurcation support, it's only one. on my machine it would support at most three.

and then I'd rather not have a card that introduces more fan noise into the system