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ASUS Hyper M.2 X16 PCIe 3.0 X4 Expansion Card V2

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Amazon has ASUS Hyper M.2 X16 PCIe 3.0 X4 Expansion Card V2 on sale for $39.99. Shipping is free.

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Features:
  • New two-phase power solution with up to 14 Watt output supports the latest NVMe drives
  • Large heatsink reduces M.2 SSD temperatures for unthrottled transfer speeds and enhanced reliability
  • Support for up to four PCIe 3.0 M.2 drives with transfer bandwidth up to 128Gbps
  • Intel VROC technology and AMD Ryzen Threadripper support enables creation of bootable NVMe RAID arrays using CPU PCIe lanes

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Amazon has ASUS Hyper M.2 X16 PCIe 3.0 X4 Expansion Card V2 on sale for $39.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member AquaHamster309 for sharing this deal.

Features:
  • New two-phase power solution with up to 14 Watt output supports the latest NVMe drives
  • Large heatsink reduces M.2 SSD temperatures for unthrottled transfer speeds and enhanced reliability
  • Support for up to four PCIe 3.0 M.2 drives with transfer bandwidth up to 128Gbps
  • Intel VROC technology and AMD Ryzen Threadripper support enables creation of bootable NVMe RAID arrays using CPU PCIe lanes

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460cidpower
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FWIT "Hyper M.2 x16 is designed specifically for Intel Virtual RAID on CPU (VROC) and the AMD Ryzen Threadripper platform for NVMe RAID support and features four M.2 slots, providing up to 128 Gbps of bandwidth per card." "Your motherboard BIOS must support bifurcation of PCIe lanes"

I don't know if it would work on other platforms.
heavyarms1912
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No. This is gen3
The purpose is simply to host multiple nvme drives on board that support pcie bifurcation.

P.S. pcie bifurcation is supported on many x570 boards primary x16 slot
aznsniper911
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I use this in quite a bit of builds, can confirm that it works on other platforms, the bigger issue when not used in HEDT is that not all bios/boards support bifurcation properly.

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looks like this is the cheapest its ever been


Thanks AquaHamster309
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FWIT "Hyper M.2 x16 is designed specifically for Intel Virtual RAID on CPU (VROC) and the AMD Ryzen Threadripper platform for NVMe RAID support and features four M.2 slots, providing up to 128 Gbps of bandwidth per card." "Your motherboard BIOS must support bifurcation of PCIe lanes"

I don't know if it would work on other platforms.
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Quote from 460cidpower :
FWIT "Hyper M.2 x16 is designed specifically for Intel Virtual RAID on CPU (VROC) and the AMD Ryzen Threadripper platform for NVMe RAID support and features four M.2 slots, providing up to 128 Gbps of bandwidth per card." "Your motherboard BIOS must support bifurcation of PCIe lanes"

I don't know if it would work on other platforms.
I use this in quite a bit of builds, can confirm that it works on other platforms, the bigger issue when not used in HEDT is that not all bios/boards support bifurcation properly.
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lots of caveats: https://www.asus.com/us/support/FAQ/1037507/

VROC only supported on Intel SSDs can also trip folks up
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Quote from 460cidpower :
FWIT "Hyper M.2 x16 is designed specifically for Intel Virtual RAID on CPU (VROC) and the AMD Ryzen Threadripper platform for NVMe RAID support and features four M.2 slots, providing up to 128 Gbps of bandwidth per card." "Your motherboard BIOS must support bifurcation of PCIe lanes"

I don't know if it would work on other platforms.
I think certain Intel HEDT xeon boards.
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juniorroseApr 02, 2022 03:57 PM
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Does this support gen 4
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Quote from juniorrose :
Does this support gen 4
No. This is gen3
The purpose is simply to host multiple nvme drives on board that support pcie bifurcation.

P.S. pcie bifurcation is supported on many x570 boards primary x16 slot
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Quote from 460cidpower :
FWIT "Hyper M.2 x16 is designed specifically for Intel Virtual RAID on CPU (VROC) and the AMD Ryzen Threadripper platform for NVMe RAID support and features four M.2 slots, providing up to 128 Gbps of bandwidth per card." "Your motherboard BIOS must support bifurcation of PCIe lanes"

I don't know if it would work on other platforms.
Without bifurcation you can use the first slot. I was given a few of these from different brands they all need bifurcation option in bios.
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ohheyitspaulApr 02, 2022 04:36 PM
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Quote from sadface :
Without bifurcation you can use the first slot. I was given a few of these from different brands they all need bifurcation option in bios.
There are some that handle bifurcation on the board itself, but they are typically much more expensive (especially compared to this price)
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slipperybargainsmanApr 02, 2022 04:39 PM
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As heavyarms1912 said it'll most likely be your primary PCIe x16 slot that'll support bifurcation. This is the slot that you'll generally use for your graphics card. Not a major issue but that does mean potentially exchanging some performance in order to use multiple SSDs in a single PCIe slot.

Asus maintains a list for boards here: https://www.asus.com/us/support/FAQ/1037507/
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ASUS FAQ showing which motherboards support the PCIe bifurcation needed to route the x16 lanes on this card to individual x4 lanes to the NVMe drives attached to the card.

https://www.asus.com/us/support/FAQ/1037507/
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OhFrugalApr 02, 2022 04:51 PM
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I understand this is a PCIe 3.0 x16 card. But what is the other unit in gray color shown in figures 1,2, and 5? TIA
Will it work, as four regular SSD drives in older motherboards without any of the fancy stuff?
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Quote from OhFrugal :
I understand this is a PCIe 3.0 x16 card. But what is the other unit in gray color shown in figures 1,2, and 5? TIA
Will it work, as four regular SSD drives in older motherboards without any of the fancy stuff?
Heat sink. Requires chipset, motherboard, and BIOS with PCIe bifurcation support.
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max1001Apr 02, 2022 05:37 PM
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Quote from OhFrugal :
I understand this is a PCIe 3.0 x16 card. But what is the other unit in gray color shown in figures 1,2, and 5? TIA
Will it work, as four regular SSD drives in older motherboards without any of the fancy stuff?
That's the cover.....
And no, only works with m.2 with supported Mobo.

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gerardoqmApr 02, 2022 05:53 PM
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I bought from Newegg a year ago at 62 usd so I think it's a fair price, and in my setup I used it with bifurcation at 4x4x4x4 with 4 Samsun 980 pro ssds and other than tinkering around with the bios settings and the RAID driver from AMD (CPU is a x1950 TR and a X399 taichi MOBO) I was able to get 14GB/s but other than reducing load times for games a little bit the most beneficial is for VMs.

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