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Has anyone used one of these m.2 to 5x SATA cards

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I was curious if anyone on here has any experience with the expansion card below. I don't have any available PCIe slots (both are already populated on an mATX board). I have an available M.2 slot so I thought this might be a good solution for some SATA expansion. Any feedback is appreciated, thanks!    

 

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Yeah it's doable, i think the bandwidth of a single x4 slot can support 5 sata (5x500MB/s).

It's all up to the controller chip.

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It requires the M.2 slot support SATA and the max total bandwidth is the same as 1 SATA port.

 

2 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

Yeah it's doable, i think the bandwidth of a single x4 slot can support 5 sata (5x500MB/s).

It's all up to the controller chip.

JMB575 is a SATA splitter, it does not use PCIe and cannot give full bandwidth to all slots at once.

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1 minute ago, Jurrunio said:

JMB575 is a SATA splitter

owh too bad in that case.

Well if you're just looking for expading the sata ports for some HDD, i think it's okay, as long as you're not accessing the drives in that card at the same time.

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9 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

It requires the M.2 slot support SATA and the max total bandwidth is the same as 1 SATA port.

 

JMB575 is a SATA splitter, it does not use PCIe and cannot give full bandwidth to all slots at once.

Damn, if that's the case then after 2-3 mechanical drives the BUS is pretty much maxed out. 

 

On a side note: it looks like the JMB585 supports PCIe Gen3 x2. That should give me the bandwidth I'm looking for. 

 

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