please enjoy this piece of modern art i've just constructed
it's held together with sticky tape not just because it's thematically appropriate but also because i've lost the screws that came with it. or maybe the screws were never in the box in the first place. i'm not sure
"but does it work" yea sure, i just had to change port bifurcation to x4x4x4x4

@whitequark I tried a simliar thing, but turns out my (elderly) motherboard doesn't do bifurcation. So I had to buy the expensive card: https://www.sonnettech.com/product/m2-2x4-ssd-low-profile-pcie-card/overview.html

Cause it has its own PCIe switch.

@krono this is not a new motherboard, it runs on lga2011v3. it just has a good (chinese) bios. from... this year actually
@krono i actually stole the docs for a bunch of these PLX devices in hopes of designing my own switch PCB
@whitequark Now *that's* sounds like a story!