Asrock Ultra Quad M 2 Card
Wednesday, January 10th 2018
ASRock Intros Ultra Quad M.2 Card
Source: https://www.techpowerup.com/240481/asrock-intros-ultra-quad-m-2-card
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Wednesday, January 10th 2018
Source: https://www.techpowerup.com/240481/asrock-intros-ultra-quad-m-2-card
15 Comments on ASRock Intros Ultra Quad M.2 Card
Atleast this ane works with Threadripper.
Squeamish production. I might have to effort one of these.
I'm digging it for sure. I really similar the quad adapters and this is at to the lowest degree more affordable than the Highpoint and Aplicata ones. Though, I reaaally doubt even the highest end Chiliad.2 NVMe SSDs in RAID0 would need more than the 75 watts the PCIe slot gives (in regards to the half dozen-pin ability connector).
ASRock is Joseph Joestar of the hardware industry.
I love this stuff, looks promising
This matter looks promising, but where the hell did they go those temps and what drives were they from?
And hither I idea my Evo's were running hot at 38-40c...and they are mounted on PCIE cards with merely an EKWB heatsink on each ane but NO fan....
Each individual drive on this card needs Adata XPG storm on information technology ;) Would be quite a light show and may be audio show ( was it 16 500 rpm on that trivial bugger ?)
...one correction. Asus card does support Grand.2-22110 drives (see picture)
"The ASUS carte features a PCI-Express three.0 x16 upstream interface, which information technology splits into four 32 Gb/s M.2-22110 slots (up to 110 mm length)"
The difference is that the highpoint SSD7101A RAID card has its Ain raid controller, unlike Asus's, and tin can practise RAID 0,1,5,10 without relying on software, that's why information technology'south $400...it is too capable of managing a raid array across multiple cards
When yous guys review this -PLEASE- effort and see if this device works in whatsoever other computers, Like Intel x99 for instance, fifty-fifty if it only does RAID-0. Praying that this thing is -NOT- sectional to the new X399 / X299 systems and volition actually work in any estimator. So please test this to run into if it'south true.
Resident Wat-man
If this thing works on older boards without RAID support simply, still allowing for 4xM.2 cards, then I'1000 all for it. My X79 lath notwithstanding has plenty of PCIe lanes to apply and upgrading simply almost everything else is too expensive right at present (remember DRAM and GPUs.)
Semi-Retired Folder
I'yard more interested in what happens if you use less than a x16 slot. If y'all use an x8 do 2 of the slots only go completely disabled, or do they all work but at one-half speed?
Resident Wat-man
I suspect you would lose the two last M.2 slots. If you look carefully at the card in the picture, yous can meet the correct-virtually Yard.2 slot traces going to the right nigh part of the PCIe connector without whatever switching hardware in between, which would (to me,) point that half the lanes would mean half the M.two slots if all the others are configured the same way but, the contrast and brightness makes it difficult to encounter if the others are wired that way. If ASRock is touting the length of the M.ii slot to the PCIe slot, then I suspect that they're not having lanes cross each other past grabbing two lanes from the beginning of the slot then 2 near the finish of the slot to permit them all to drop to 2 lanes if it'south electrically 8 lanes. Information technology would probably cost more to produce every bit well.
Wait at it this mode, if yous're because using 4xM.ii SSDs, you're probably not using a mainstream platform.
With 70$ price tag, I might just go crazy and try it out.. :D
Can this card hold 4xM.2 SSDs WITHOUT X299 and X399? ---AND---no Intel SSD required? I don't need RAID, simply want my old 1000.2 SSDs(multiple brands) can still work together on my Z170. If it can piece of work in this way, I'grand in !
Interesting times in that nosotros are on the cusp of am4 having the same raid ability every bit TR4 it seems, w/ the new 400 series mobos. These new mobos should exist able to do native bootable nvme 2x raid using an 8 lane dgpu.
I like the shorter traces.
I am skeptical of the shroud and cheesy fan arrangements on some of these board. I retrieve I prefer a bare lath & make my ain ventilation arrangements.
These powerful raid arrays are a case in point imo, as to why lane/core rich and quad channel ram amd tr4 is so much better than a similarly priced intel with its increasingly marginal ipc advantage.
Only a very few expensive intel rigs offer 16, or even 8, lanes spare w/ a 16 lane dgpu installed, so intel buyers can forget information technology. Do not be fooled by Intel's onboard nvme ports. They have a combined 4 lane bandwidth that just ane practiced nvme could saturate. Using their alleged nvme raid on these ports is ~useless for speed.
Folks dont seem to have got their heads effectually what a powerful resource ~ram speed storage is/promises to exist. I find it hard to believe many apps like games & vid editing can't utilise it to good effect. On Vega, such arrays tin can even be used every bit gpu cache extenders, for effectively unlimited gpu memory size.
For now its expensive, simply getting better and cheaper, but speed should non be confused with costly capacity - that'south a split issue for a carve up bulldoze. Very fast 256GB Evos are $120US ea., and pretty fast (~60% of Evo read speed & similar write speed) corsair (superior MLC nand) 120GB are $70 on newegg. Fifty-fifty 480GB is huge as virtual retentivity or a scratch drive.
It bears reiterating that these are mere adapters. They do no processing. They simply make a directly link from the nvme drive controller to the cpu. Just because there are expensive, seemingly like, intelligent raid cards similar highpoint out there for $500+, doesnt mean these simple cards need to be love likewise. $85US+ is too much. $55US~ would be off-white, merely its a sellers market atm.