Question sata port bonding

[brcisna11]

Searched and stangely enough could not find any solid info,,,up front.
Surely,,,someone has tried sata port bonding/ aggregation
Seeings how sata is about obsoleted at this point could there be some way to make an adapter to go from M.2 nvme to 4 onboard sata ports of a consmer grade motherboard,to bond/aggregate the possible bandwidth.

Example. We have 4 desktops,,scattered around the house,,each one has no sata connection each with 4 sata ports. They are pretty much just dust collectors at this point.
Seems like if you get 560 MBs per channel times 2 an nvme drive would get decent performance.
Probably more troubl than it is worth type deal in the end

Flame suit on... Ideas...

TIA

 

[rgd1101]

you have to rewrite the bios

 

[kanewolf]

Searched and stangely enough could not find any solid info,,,up front.
Surely,,,someone has tried sata port bonding/ aggregation
Seeings how sata is about obsoleted at this point could there be some way to make an adapter to go from M.2 nvme to 4 onboard sata ports of a consmer grade motherboard,to bond/aggregate the possible bandwidth.

Example. We have 4 desktops,,scattered around the house,,each one has no sata connection each with 4 sata ports. They are pretty much just dust collectors at this point.
Seems like if you get 560 MBs per channel times 2 an nvme drive would get decent performance.
Probably more troubl than it is worth type deal in the end

Flame suit on... Ideas...

TIA

What storage do you propose connecting to this bonded port? There were motherboards which had special double-wide bonded SATA ports. Those ports never were widely supported and they are now obsolete. I believe the technology was called "SATA Express".

 

[brcisna11]

@kanewolf ,
Have never heard of this Sata Express, interesting.
I had mentioned in original message ,,the thought was to 'convert' a bonded sata port/controller into M.2 nvme (ssd),, to leverage the nvme throughput possibilities.
Am surprised someone much smarter than I,,hasnt tried frankensteining something like this just to see if it would work.
With all current mobo's doing M.2 nvme interfaces,,many x2 now,,,this idea is pretty unrealistic,,,in the end though.
After having had nvme for a few years now,, sitting an an sata ssd pc,,,is so stinkin slow,,,

TIA

 

[Bob.B]

@kanewolf ,
Have never heard of this Sata Express, interesting.
I had mentioned in original message ,,the thought was to 'convert' a bonded sata port/controller into M.2 nvme (ssd),, to leverage the nvme throughput possibilities.
Am surprised someone much smarter than I,,hasnt tried frankensteining something like this just to see if it would work.
With all current mobo's doing M.2 nvme interfaces,,many x2 now,,,this idea is pretty unrealistic,,,in the end though.
After having had nvme for a few years now,, sitting an an sata ssd pc,,,is so stinkin slow,,,

TIA

I've run this pc from a gen3x4 ssd and a sata ssd and see no diff in perf.

Other than benchmarks.

 

[USAFRet]

There is nothing inherently wrong or lacking with current SATA III SSDs and the associated ports.
They are fine, for a wide variety of use cases.

My main system has 4x of these, along with the 2x NVMe drives.

There is no market for bonded/combined SATA ports.