Was makkelijk te installeren en te configureren. Binnenkort weer een paar M.2 aanschaffen.

A learning experience. You can load the slots up, but very few motherboards can read all 4. So read the fine print and work out if you can get the most out of this device.

I bought this to free up some PCI slots in my Dell Precision T7810 where I have GPU, Soundcard and multiple individual PCI NVMe disks installed. The card is well made with metal housing, included Thermal heat pads for each of the four NVMe drives and a fan to ensure good airflow inside the card housing.I have four 1Tb SSD drives installed, two are Samsung and two Sabrent and there's no issue with mixing disk brands. Installation was easy, but keep in mind this is a long PCI card so check you have enough room in the case.It's something of an exotic device aimed mostly at those with PC's capable of booting and running NVMe drives, but that are not new enough to have onboard dedicated M2 slot on their mainboard. This was the case with our Precision T7810 towers which run really well on NVMe disks but have a BIOS NVMe boot capacity limit of 1Tb meaning I cant simply put in a single or pair of 2Tb or higher NVME disks and be done.I opted then to install this card and after searching for and confirming that the T7810 will support the card went ahead and bought a couple of extra 1Tb Sabrent NVMe cards over Black Friday. You'll be best placed if you ensure you have the latest BIOS update installed first before migrating to this card.On the Precision T7810 it's a bit of a hit and miss process getting the system to power up and reach BIOS output on the monitor and we experienced long black screen issues at first, largely due to the number of different controllers on this Workstation and the huge scan time for the 64Gb ECC memory installed.After a bit of tweaking and a few hard power off cycles with the power button we eventually got to a working BIOS output on the monitor where the individual cards have to be configured in the drive and boot menu.Oddly as is normal for this card you can often find that at first full boot to Windows there will only be 2 of the 4 drives connected and visible in Device Manager. You just need to keep re-booting and refreshing Device manager. There are a couple of website guides telling you how to tweak the settings to overcome the two issues I've mentioned here.Once you have them installed and detected in Windows this card performs well, runs cool and allows you to avail of four high speed NVMe drives in either a RAID format, or as individual drives. In our case after reading up on the reliability of performance gains of pairing up the drives into a RAID 0,1 5 configuration we simply run them as standalone drives. The general consensus being that there's not a lot of improvement in real use performance with a RAID array but that it comes with much higher risk of catastrophic drive failure and data loss.The general feeling was that if you want higher disk throughput that you should move up to PCIe Gen 4 or PCIe Gen5 motherboards and that most of these come with pre-installed NVMe slots with a BIOS capable of booting from disk capacity greater than the 1Tb restriction on the Precision T7810.For the work we are doing the T7810 is now more than capable of whizzing through renders, design work and other high throughput operations without any really obvious delay to the user. We felt it's not worth upgrading to a PCIe Gen5 system as yet as the price premiums are very high as of Feb 2024 so we'll wait another few years until Gen 14 Intel i7 or i9 CPU machines with DDR5 and PCIe5 are much more affordable.So this ASUS card gives us all the space and throughput we need on our bombproof Dell T7810's and at a massive cost saving against going through another system upgrade cycle in the near future.

Ottima scheda PCI Express per l'utilizzo di SSD M2. Può essere utilizzata sia come 4x unità differenti sia come unità RAID per le schede madri compatibili. Attenzione però che la scheda è compatibile con quasi tutte le schede madri per l'utilizzo di 1 SSD, mentre se si vuole utilizzarne più d'uno dev'essere compatibile con i protocolli in descrizione.Ad esempio io, con il mio Alienware Area 51 R5 del 2019, che ha una scheda madre con chipset più vecchio di quelli compatibili, la scheda funziona ma anche se inserisco più di 1 SSD, uno soltanto verrà riconosciuto dal sistema. Nel mio caso volevo inserire 2 Samsung 980 Pro da 2Tb l'uno, ed uno soltanto è riconosciuto dal sistema.Sicuramente errore mio nel non essermi informato meglio precedentemente, ma non è poi così chiaro dalle informazioni della casa madre. Ad ogni modo, con 1 SSD funziona perfettamente, unità riconosciuta subito, veloce e funzionante.Soddisfatto ma darei più informazioni a riguardo.

He de decir de antemano que no he montado un RAID (por lo que mucha gente mirará una solución de este estilo). Simplemente, mi placa tiene dos slots M.2 y necesitaba más. Ha sido conectarla con un disco MVNE nuevo y funcionar a la primera. Eso sí, si lo vas a comprar, mira primero que tu placa acepte bifurcación PCI.La tarjeta es GRANDE. No la esperaba tanto, la verdad. Se le puede poner como pega que el ventilador hace bastante ruido, pero tiene un botón para desactivarlo y, como trae un bloque de aluminio para disipar tan grande no creo que necesites encenderlo jamás a no ser que tengas 4 discos en raid funcionando todo el rato por un setup muy extremo. El disco que tengo aquí va considerablemente más fresco que los dos que tengo en la placa.

It works well but the motherboard needs to support bifurcation (There is no pcie-switch on this board)Again, it does what it says, but watch out for how many PCIe lanes are available on your CPU+Motherboard.For all M.2 NVME devices to function the board must have all 16-lanes allocated, so you can not use the second "x16" slot on most consumer CPU's.AM4 gives you 16+4 cpu lanes, most often 16 for the first slot (if nothing populates the second, otherwise only x8) and 4 dedicated lanes to a "cpu-m.2-nvme" slot on the motherboard.I had to use a M.2->PCIe 4x adaptor cable to hook up a high speed NIC.If one existed I would have have prefererad a PCIe x8 board that only gave each M.2 Device two lanes..(the bandwidth would have been good enough for me) but unfortunately that does not seem to exist today.