Quad NVMe Ports to PCIe x16 Interface x8 Bandwidth Bifurcation Riser Controller - Support Non-Bifurcation Motherboard SI-

AS Media's ASM2824 has a PCIe x8 upstream port as well as 4 PCIe x4 downstream ports. The switch is designed primarily for storage devices.

card uses ASM2824 switches and therefore does not rely on PCIe bifurcation supported by CPU or PCH (they will work on closed end systems that have PCIe bifurcation capabilities).

Dedicated PCIe x8 bus bandwidth fully maximizes NVMe SSDs performance

Delivers unprecedented fast transfer speed via intelligently aggregated QUAD x4 PCIe bus bandwidth

NVMe RAID is supported base on the motherboard chipsets

The I/O CREST SI- is a great accelerated secondary storage solution for any workstation with true PCIe x8 bandwidth (x16 Interface). It has four NVMe ports to accept two NVMe SSDs, so each NVMe SSD has dedicated PCIe x4 bus bandwidth. It delivers transfer speeds 20 times faster than SATA SSDs. By by-passing the traditional PCIe x4 NVMe solutions, using the SI- will allow user add 4 NVMe into any non-Bifurcation PCIe x16 slot to achieve their full potential with a bandwidth of up to 6,500 MB/s. Unlike onboard DMI based NVMe solutions or Single NVMe PCI-e x4, which are forced to share a single PCIe x4 lane with the motherboard's data ports, the SI- combines 4 - drives to be able to run on PCIe x16 lane. This unique architecture allows the drive to interface directly with the platform's CPU, which provides PCIe x4 bandwidth for each NVMe SSD!