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)

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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h0d
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#5510133 Posted on: 01/12/2018 05:56 PM

"The ASRock Ultra Quad M.2 Card will cost roughly 79 EUR/USD." For that price, I think I'll get 3 of them

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#5510141 Posted on: 01/12/2018 06:09 PM

Interesting... mind you i didn't think m.2's really got that hot and could be cooled with a simple fin stack.

Though i wonder if there will be bandwidth issues, or if this would soak the bandwidth away from say GPU's

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#5510149 Posted on: 01/12/2018 06:25 PM

What to expect from this, well you can check similar product from Asus,it is mind blowing
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#5510286 Posted on: 01/13/2018 12:15 AM

A really brilliant idea behind the product , With nm advancements and PCIE 4.0 , I am awaitng PCIE 4.0 Raid configuration which will produce hysteric benchmarks.

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#5510420 Posted on: 01/13/2018 01:34 PM

, exept in a really not improved ventilation (low cost tuning chassis) or heavy charge server, passive cooling could be enough.

But there is even WC for m2 now...
Anyway Cooler is always better... so why not

? and this one is a nice looking one.

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