If you need to add internal storage to your computer configuration and high-speed data transfers are critical to your work, today's PCIe NVMe SSDs offer tremendous performance.
Sonnet's M.2 4x4 PCIe card allows four M.2 NVMe PCIe SSDs to be mounted in a single x16 card slot, expanding storage by up to 32TB.
With the Sonnet M.2 4x4 PCIe card installed in your
Mac, Windows or Linux desktop PC or server, or Thunderbolt to PCIe card expansion system, you can use it for instant-access media storage or as a high-performance virtual memory disk. Mac users can even install macOS on an SSD to create an ultra-fast bootable drive and create a RAID 0 array with the other SSDs installed without loss of performance. Whatever you use it for, the performance of this card is impressive.
Sonnet's M.2 4x4 PCIe card is a full height, full length PCIe 3.0 card with a 16-lane (x16) interface. With a unique Sonnet-designed x16 PCIe bridge, the card dedicates four lanes of PCIe 3.0 bandwidth to each SSD you install. When installed in the PCIe 3.0 slot of a Windows PC with four SSDs formatted in a RAID 0 configuration, the card is capable of
8,500MB/s transfers. Aggregate transfer speeds of up to 12,000 MB/s are possible from four non-RAID SSDs.Sonnet has designed the M.2 4x4 PCIe card with a custom cooling solution that incorporates several components. These include a heatsink and an intelligent fan that monitors temperature and spins only when and as fast as necessary to minimise audible noise. Together, they enable SSDs to operate for extended periods - especially during large file transfers - without thermal slowdown in SSD performance, a problem faced by competing products.
Sonnet's M.2 4x4 PCIe card is ideal for use in a Sonnet expansion system, such as the Echo Express III-D, III-R or xMac Thunderbolt to PCIe. Integrating a Sonnet M.2 4x4 PCIe card into your system is simple - just insert it into a PCIe x16 slot and power up your computer. NVMe compliance ensures automatic installation of the required drivers. Compatible with macOS 10.14.4+, Windows 10 and Linux, the Sonnet M.2 4x4 PCIe uses the operating systems' built-in drive formatting utilities to format SSDs. Drive health monitoring is also performed via S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) data reporting.
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