Where was I snarky?There's no need to be snarky though, is there?
(and I was sure I had a signature here with the server specs, apparently not)
I never said consumer board, I said consumer CPU. And I guess I was wrong, the xeon e series while not consumer, is still quite limited in PCIE. THAT is what I was trying to get at.What makes you think I am on consumer board?
A LARGE portion of people who are doing what you want to do don't realize that they need both bifurcation AND pcie lanes for each nvme. Since you didn't give all of the information that I needed in the other posts, I was trying to extract that in a tactful way.