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Morning All. Not sure if I asked before, or in recent times. It seems from my component buying options late last year that things deemed of value have changed in the computer component world, and features on some components. Late last year I bought the Asrock X670-E Taichi motherboard thinking I could discretely enable/disable the four m.2 NVMe connectors but learned the hard lesson late in that this wasn't something native to the NVMe design as it lacks an external; controller and connects directly to the CPU. Worse yet was that this $300 motherboard lacked any ability to enable/disable the primary four SATA ports or the four secondary SATA ports. While they may be hot-swappable in the sense I can just physically unplug and plug back in their SATA connectors, I cannot turn individual ports on/off.
I used this feature on my elderly PC which is 11 years old. I since, haven learned that late hard lesson, that this isn't something Asrock seems to be interested in providing, and as others have posted online about the seemingly only verified manufacture these days is Gigabyte. But I take that news with a grain of salt and wonder if anyone on Anand might have been utilizing this discrete (per port) toggling in the BIOS (UEFI), and if so on what maker and chipset?
I used this feature on my elderly PC which is 11 years old. I since, haven learned that late hard lesson, that this isn't something Asrock seems to be interested in providing, and as others have posted online about the seemingly only verified manufacture these days is Gigabyte. But I take that news with a grain of salt and wonder if anyone on Anand might have been utilizing this discrete (per port) toggling in the BIOS (UEFI), and if so on what maker and chipset?