Quad M.2 SSD Cards with a PLX chip - An option for getting your PCIe lanes back

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Happy New Year, I am curious about your experience with the PLX card. Have you received it?

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I did and it’s not a PLX card :roll_eyes: The screen on the board stated 4x4x4x4 bifurcation, so there’s no PLX chip on that board. At all. False/misleading advertising, but hey, it’s Aliexpress so I kinda expected such.

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How annoying is that? The buried, misleading, or just false is constantly getting worse.

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in Feb 2025 when this post was made, this was indeed the case. Now, six months later, I am looking for high capacity SATA SSD and it seems like they no longer exist. Its actually cheaper now to use 8TB NVMe, specifically the Western Digital Black SN850X for $600 USD, than any SATA drive. Bonus: M.2 drive does not require extra SATA cables or power connectors…

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But I have SATA cables . . .

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SATA M.2 doesn’t need SATA cables either