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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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varkkon
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#5510565 Posted on: 01/14/2018 09:04 AM
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


Cool hmmm, good point I will check it out first for sure. Thanks for the heads up and info.

Kevin cobley
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#5510721 Posted on: 01/15/2018 04:13 AM
The 6 Pin connector is an unnecessary sales pitch, NVme SSD's never draw more than 10w, usually less than 5w. It's like those sales pitches for 2 x 8pin graphics cards for a GTX 1080 that draws 180w.
Conflating power plugs with performance.

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#5510725 Posted on: 01/15/2018 05:47 AM
The 6 Pin connector is an unnecessary sales pitch, NVme SSD's never draw more than 10w, usually less than 5w. It's like those sales pitches for 2 x 8pin graphics cards for a GTX 1080 that draws 180w.
Conflating power plugs with performance.

Yes because a 6 pin is gonna raise the price that much more, and be the selling gimmick they need. SMDH.

IM not even gonna get into about dual 8 pins being a sales pitch for a 1080. Nice bait.

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#5510746 Posted on: 01/15/2018 10:02 AM
I allready had a PCI express 3.0 16x Card that can Mount 4 NVME SSD since January 2017. It costed 400 usd but it is Motherboard agnostic, i believe, as it has a splitter chip on it. So Motherboard doesnt Need to Support squat.
Here it is:
http://amfeltec.com/products/pci-express-gen-3-carrier-board-for-4-m-2-ssd-modules/

Lukart
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#5512654 Posted on: 01/20/2018 11:06 PM
Selling the same stuff Asus charges for double... ahah I guess Asustek made their biggest mistake when the spin off AR :D

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