Asus has quietly launched a brand new high-performance storage adaptor. Twitter/X storage sleuth momomo_us noticed that the Asus Hyper M.2 x16 Gen5 Card product pages have appeared. It is a vital replace to the Hyper M.2 x16 Gen 4 card with as much as double the potential bandwidth, thus supporting as much as 512 Gbps in case your platform is as much as it.
The product description says that the Asus Hyper M.2 x16 Gen5 Card permits the becoming of as much as 4 NVMe M.2 SSDs. Customers can combine and match storage gadgets. Official Asus specs point out customers will probably be combining PCIe 5.0/4.0 M.2 drives, and M.2 2242, 2260, 2280, and 22110 gadgets can all be fitted in any of the 4 slots with Q-Latch mechanism for straightforward set up and elimination.
With the latest and quickest drives, there could also be some concern over energy and cooling. Nevertheless, Asus has fitted an auxiliary 6-pin PCIe energy connector to this card and asserts that the onboard two-phase energy resolution delivers as much as 14W to every drive, which is greater than adequate.
With the shroud of the cardboard, you may see the 4 M.2 slots and a cooling fan. This works like a blower-style graphics card fan, taking in cool air from the fan finish of the cardboard and pushing it over the M.2 card slots to exhaust out of the extremely perforated fixing bracket. Asus signifies that that is sufficient, mixed with prime and backside M.2 thermal pads, to “cut back temperature-induced throttling throughout heavy, sustained information transfers.” The fan can profit from in depth management parameters from the Asus Fan Xpert 4 software program. You can even flip the fan on or off through the small button on the cardboard’s rear I/O space.
As for efficiency, the headlining 512 Gbps bandwidth comes from 4 quick PCIe 5.0 M.2 NVMe drives working in RAID 0 mode – in a striped aggregation. The chart above exhibits the spectacular efficiency uplifts doable with this new PCIe storage card – as much as 128 Gbps per slot.
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There are a number of issues to contemplate earlier than buying one in all these Asus Hyper M.2 x16 Gen5 (or Gen4) Playing cards. Asus printed a FAQ outlining the capabilities of at the moment supported AMD and Intel motherboards about M.2 drives hosted on add-in playing cards. It highlights within the FAQ that the “most M.2 SSDs help will range relying on totally different CPUs.” Your motherboard should help PCIe bifurcation.
The FAQ compatibility desk additionally exhibits, for instance, that techniques utilizing Intel Core household CPUs and the newest motherboards and graphics playing cards can solely use two of the 4 M.2 storage slots without delay (as a max 16 CPU PCIe 5.0 lanes can be found) and profit from the total potential of the hosted drives. In distinction, AMD Ryzen customers with the newest platforms can use all 4 slots (max 28 CPU PCIe 5.0 lanes). Asus additionally recommends all customers replace to the newest motherboard BIOS.
Asus has confirmed that the Asus Hyper M.2 x16 Gen5 Card will value $79.99, and channel availability is scheduled for seven to 14 days.
