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Re:Samsung Demos Its First BGA SSD: 1500 MB/s Read Speed and... by haneefmubarak on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @09:23AM (#11814121)
Ah I missed the part about DIY - that sucks though.

You seem to be familiar with PCIe 2 though, so now I'm wondering - is there a chip that could convert the 1x PCIe 3 lane into a 2x or 4x PCIe 2 set of lanes? Also, worst case, if you really wanted to use this chip, couldn't you just use the chip with PCIe 2 (albeit slower, but I think revisions of PCIe are supposed to be cross compatible)?

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Re:Samsung Demos Its First BGA SSD: 1500 MB/s Read Speed and... by sklogic on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @10:01AM (#11814383)
> is there a chip that could convert the 1x PCIe 3 lane into a 2x or 4x PCIe 2 set of lanes?

Never heard of such a thing, although it might have been really useful.

> couldn't you just use the chip with PCIe 2

Did not even think of this option, sounds interesting. I guess we should wait for the datasheet for this chip to be sure.

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