M.2 adapter on x79 board?

[snoopunit]

Just a quick question about an m.2 adapter I found on newegg. Asus Hyper m.2 x16 pcie 3.0 x4 expansion card.

 

Looks like it supports up to 4x m.2 cards simultaneously, and I believe I have the pcie bandwidth to support it, however, I'm wondering how difficult it would be to make a boot drive on an asrock x79 extreme11 board.

 

Thanks.

[Zando_]

It won't run 4x M.2 cards. You can get modded BIOSes for X99 ASRock boards to enable bifurcation, but to my knowledge X79 can't do that. You need bifurcation (the CPU itself to split an x16 to x4/x4/x4/x4) since the card doesn't have it's own controller. 
 

[snoopunit]

3 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

It won't run 4x M.2 cards. You can get modded BIOSes for X99 ASRock boards to enable bifurcation, but to my knowledge X79 can't do that. You need bifurcation (the CPU itself to split an x16 to x4/x4/x4/x4) since the card doesn't have it's own controller. 
 

Ok thanks I guess I'll just wait till I upgrade and get a board with m.2 slots ready to go