I was considering to buy one of these items as I have an Aourus X570 Master and no longer use any mechanical Hard drives.
I know I can use the slot closest to the CPU as it is a x 16 and can be turned into 4 x 4 so thats ok.
BUT...always the buts. My concerns are the following.
I am using an MSI RTX 3080 which I can move to another slot and understand PCI 4 x8 is fine as it will run the GPU same as a PCI 3 x16.
However the the manual reads that if a card is in the 2nd PCI slot the 1st Slot drops to x8 which means very expensive add on for 4 ssd's if I can only use 2 of them.
So I was wondering is there is a possible work around so I could use the GPU and the Gigabyte Aorus gen4 aic adaptor fully populated with 4 x 2TB SSD's
Or am I barking up the wrong tree as my Aorus Master Motherboard is not as masterful as I had hoped.
Final query was if I were to purchase the adapter all the info only I found online relates to how fast and raid 0 but I was thinking to use a Raid 5 or simply use as JBOD ? That info I have been unable to confirm.
I know I can use the slot closest to the CPU as it is a x 16 and can be turned into 4 x 4 so thats ok.
BUT...always the buts. My concerns are the following.
I am using an MSI RTX 3080 which I can move to another slot and understand PCI 4 x8 is fine as it will run the GPU same as a PCI 3 x16.
However the the manual reads that if a card is in the 2nd PCI slot the 1st Slot drops to x8 which means very expensive add on for 4 ssd's if I can only use 2 of them.
So I was wondering is there is a possible work around so I could use the GPU and the Gigabyte Aorus gen4 aic adaptor fully populated with 4 x 2TB SSD's
Or am I barking up the wrong tree as my Aorus Master Motherboard is not as masterful as I had hoped.
Final query was if I were to purchase the adapter all the info only I found online relates to how fast and raid 0 but I was thinking to use a Raid 5 or simply use as JBOD ? That info I have been unable to confirm.