Using a bifurcation riser or adapter can expand your motherboard's M.2 SSD slot total

Most modern motherboards will come with between two and sometimes five M.2 SSD slots. This is ample capacity for most PC builds, including gaming systems where terabytes (TBs) of space will be required for storing modern games, but there may be a time when you require additional slots. This could be due to the cost of M.2 PCIe SSDs, which cost hundreds for more than 2TB, restricting how much you can add to your storage pool per slot. That's where PCIe bifurcation risers, splitters, and adapters come into play!