i mean yes most likely until controllers improve and throughput improves but i technically have 4 4x slots at my disposal and i would like to figure out how to make the best of them. I heard from a technician that it is ether the North-bridge or South-bridge that is the limiting factor
Except PCie slots are normally 16x or 1x.
I see no reason why not although it would require a higher pin count making 8x thunderbolt over USB-C not possible. But a dedicated thunderbolt port would solve that. But most machines with thunderbolt support these days do so over USB-C. Only Apple seems to have dedicated thunderbolt ports.
each 4x is that and that only. I dont see why someone doesn't make a dock with two thunderbolt in to a 8x slot. but i guess that data will be split. there would need to be some development on that end
You'd have to look at a spec sheet. But that's what I'm saying, you otherwise wouldn't. However, what you're proposing would pose the same issue as if someone designed an external SSD that could pull from multiple USB 3.0 ports for double the speed; if you plugged both cables into ports that share a controller (and therefor, bandwidth), as is common with most consumer devices, you'd see virtually no benefit. Since individual TB controller cards are rather expensive to the end user, I'm guessing that most peripheral manufacturers are counting on said consumers only having the one included on the motherboard. And, as I've said, if that's the case, then no matter how many ports your device has, you won't see a benefit between using one and any number of more cables
I would have to think the storage and external ports would be on 2 different controllers, becuase why would two nvme ssd share the same bandwidth. I have the hades canyon nuc if that makes it any easier
That's not what I'm saying, I was making a comparison between the two scenarios
Correct. And you understand why that's an issue now, right? Cause if not I can draw a picture of what I'm talking about
