On 2026-05-22 Adam Thompson via Roundtable wrote:
I mentioned, not terribly long ago, a way to get 24 SATA ports relatively cheaply using M.key modules in a carrier board, as long as your motherboard has a spare x16 slot that supports bifurcation. While searching for something else altogether, I noticed someone has put it together as a package (except for the cabling) to make life easy, at a reasonable price:
Wow. That's pretty nuts. Better let someone else be the guinea pig first though! Why didn't they have this product 10 years ago? :-) And what the heck is "bifurcation" in this context, and how would you know? Would your average consumer board have that? And does this new card trick the system into thinking the SATAs are NVMe?? It is still possible to get 12 SATA on a x8 (or was it x4?) LSI card, and those things are on ebay pretty cheap now. Of course, then you need 2 slots to get 24. I wonder how the performance compares...