Wednesday, October 4th 2017
ASUS Intros Hyper M.2 x16 Riser Card
ASUS rolled out the Hyper M.2 x16 riser card, an accessory which could prove useful for those who want to add up to four extra M.2 SSDs. The card features a PCI-Express 3.0 x16 upstream interface, which it splits into four 32 Gb/s M.2-22110 slots (up to 110 mm length), with PCI-Express 3.0 x4 wiring, each. The card doesn't have any serious HBA logic of its own, beyond simple circuitry to power the four M.2 drives, and put out power/activity status LEDs for each slot.
A monolithic, stylish brushed aluminium shroud doubles up as a heatsink for the M.2 drives. There's also a lateral-blower fan, which guides air from inside your case through the drives and outside through the perforated rear bracket. You can turn this fan off with a physical switch on the card, although there's no software-based fan-control. The card is 20.2 cm long, 9.6 cm tall, and 1-slot thick. The company is advertising the card to be compatible only with its X299 chipset-based motherboards, for now. The company didn't reveal pricing.
A monolithic, stylish brushed aluminium shroud doubles up as a heatsink for the M.2 drives. There's also a lateral-blower fan, which guides air from inside your case through the drives and outside through the perforated rear bracket. You can turn this fan off with a physical switch on the card, although there's no software-based fan-control. The card is 20.2 cm long, 9.6 cm tall, and 1-slot thick. The company is advertising the card to be compatible only with its X299 chipset-based motherboards, for now. The company didn't reveal pricing.
24 Comments on ASUS Intros Hyper M.2 x16 Riser Card
www.guru3d.com/news-story/eight-nvme-m2-ssds-in-raid-on-x399-threadripper-reach-28-gbs.html
So it's BS that it's only supported on X299.
Especially while they are reverting to some proprietary stand-offish nonsense yet AGAIN :)
hello, it's 1984 calling, and we want our antiquated stuff back!
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And I wanted this card for the Z390 system I'm going to build next year....pfff
- Supports Intel VROC technology, allowing you to use CPU PCIe® lanes to create BOOTable RAID arrays
That means you need to pay 100$ or so extra on top of stupid HEDT premium to get support for RAID(beyond RAID 1). Also you need to get Intel SSDs for that work which another crippling limitation for VROC.Here is a link to Pcper's review of the this Asus add in card: www.pcper.com/reviews/Storage/Intel-VROC-Tested-X299-VROC-vs-Z270-RST-Quad-Optane-vs-Quad-960-PRO
But if this only works on X299, it's a waste.
As such, a 2-drive version with 8 lanes wired up should be perfect for anyone willing to run their GPU in x8 mode (which ought to be pretty much everyone, as the performance loss is near zero) even on consumer platforms with 16 "GPU" lanes split across two slots. Then again, as long as the platform supports bifurcation this should work with the 4-drive version too, with the 3rd and 4th slot simply not working (as they won't be connected to anything), and it's not like the cost of this card is prohibitive, luckily.
I think is a no brainer...:rockout:
At the very least, I hope Raven Ridge will support 4k Blu-ray.
Damn... I'd like to have this for my X99-A....