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Guru3D.com » News » ASRock introduces Quad M2 PCIe SSD add-in card (with active cooling)

ASRock introduces Quad M2 PCIe SSD add-in card (with active cooling)

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 01/12/2018 05:23 PM | source: | 15 comment(s)
ASRock introduces Quad M2 PCIe SSD add-in card (with active cooling)

If you have a need for 'moar' M2 SSDs, perhaps this is a solution for you? ASRock is about to release a Ultra Quad M.2 card. It can hold four NVMe M2 SSDs, with the ability to place it into a VROC RAID configuration.

The x16 Gen 3 PCI Express add-in card can hold four x4 Gen 3 M2 units of up-to 10cm. If you worry about power, not an issue here either, as the card is fed with a 6-pin PEG power connector. Inside you'll notice a number of things, the M2 cards are cooled with small thermal pads towards the heatsink, but also some active cooling is present in the form of a fan. The unit is VROC compatible, but that does require an expensive activation key from Intel.

  • PCIe Gen 3 x16 interface
  • Supports M Key type 2242/2260/2280/22110 M.2 PCI Express module Gen3 x4 32Gb/s
  • Supports Intel® VROC technology
  • Fully support Intel® latest NVMe M.2 SSD
  • Variable speed cooling fan
  • ASRock Ultra Quad M.2 Card Utility
 
 
Supports up to 4 PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe M.2 SSDs on AMD X399 platform and Virtual RAID on CPU (VROC) technology on Intel® X299 platform. Allows you to create a bootable RAID array with up to 4 M.2 SSDs. The 11-cm-long thermal pad is able to fully cover every NAND flash on M.2 SSD, transferring heat generated by the high-speed M.2 SSD onto the aluminum cover. 

The ASRock Ultra Quad M.2 Card will cost roughly 79 EUR/USD.


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Darkiee
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#5510431 Posted on: 01/13/2018 02:54 PM
This is something that got my interest for future. All depending how many Pcie lanes Zen+ gives.
And i don´t think the prize is that bad either.

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#5510437 Posted on: 01/13/2018 03:26 PM
"Very nice!!". Now to find out what threadripper 2 is going to deliver and this bad boy might be part of a New build.

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#5510442 Posted on: 01/13/2018 03:57 PM
This doesn't work in a 8 electrical/16 mechanical slot, for that you would need a highpoint SSD7101 which has a PLX chip inside to convert 8 PCIe (electrical) to 4x 4PCIe but at a cost (€ 400).
With EPYC which has so many PCIe it wouldn't be a problem.

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#5510531 Posted on: 01/14/2018 12:08 AM
Nice, this looks awesome! So here is a question : I have a MSI X399 mobo , 1950X Threadripper all setup with the NVMe RAID update( by BIOS and driver ), can I add this card in and RAID1 two sets SSD NVMe M.2s and run another set of two SSD NVMe M.2s in regular mode(so use all 4 slots)? Basically the add in card will add a new pool of 4 NVMe's M.2s to my system and let the mobo control them in RAID or how ever else I want?

If I can use my RAID on the mobo to config this card I will get this for sure and remove the NVMe's M.2s off my mobo. Thanks for the heads up on the new tech.

Found this: https://www.asrock.com/mb/spec/product.asp?Model=ULTRA%20QUAD%20M.2%20CARD * so it looks like that is a yes! *

"Bootable M.2 RAID Support

Supports up to 4 PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe M.2 SSDs on AMD X399 platform and Virtual RAID on CPU (VROC) technology on Intel® X299 platform. Allows you to create a bootable RAID array with up to 4 M.2 SSDs."

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#5510560 Posted on: 01/14/2018 08:19 AM
Nice, this looks awesome! So here is a question : I have a MSI X399 mobo , 1950X Threadripper all setup with the NVMe RAID update( by BIOS and driver ), can I add this card in and RAID1 two sets SSD NVMe M.2s and run another set of two SSD NVMe M.2s in regular mode(so use all 4 slots)? Basically the add in card will add a new pool of 4 NVMe's M.2s to my system and let the mobo control them in RAID or how ever else I want?

If I can use my RAID on the mobo to config this card I will get this for sure and remove the NVMe's M.2s off my mobo. Thanks for the heads up on the new tech.

Found this: https://www.asrock.com/mb/spec/product.asp?Model=ULTRA QUAD M.2 CARD * so it looks like that is a yes! *

"Bootable M.2 RAID Support

Supports up to 4 PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe M.2 SSDs on AMD X399 platform and Virtual RAID on CPU (VROC) technology on Intel® X299 platform. Allows you to create a bootable RAID array with up to 4 M.2 SSDs."
As far as i know, with Asus card you need to have mobo support. Mobo needs to be able to split X16 in to 4 X4 virtually, that needs to be done in bios, i am not sure about Asrock solution but i suspect it is similar, so double check everything before you pull the trigger

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