What PCIe add in cards can boot a NVMe M.2 SSD?

[UsandThem]

Neat I didn't know you could use multiple m.2 drives. I have an Asus PCIe adapter card for my m.2 drive.

There's also some multi units shown in post #10 and #25.

If someone has the $$$, there are some cool toys to be played with 🙂

 

[aigomorla]

do any of u guys know how those multi cards configure the drives?
Does it Raid them? Jbod? or do you get each drive as a single drive?

 

[UsandThem]

do any of u guys know how those multi cards configure the drives?
Does it Raid them? Jbod? or do you get each drive as a single drive?

From this article, they call it VROC:

https://www.pcworld.com/article/319...le-crazy-raid-configurations-for-a-price.html

f you populated the Hyper M.2 with four drives and dropped it into a slot even on an older motherboard, it would work, but all you would see is four individual M.2 drives. What’s new is the ability to RAID it. All you have to do is boot into the board’s BIOS and enable Intel’s VROC feature

 

[aigomorla]

Oh its a VROC card... sigh....

Something we should of gotten for free, yet is now DLC'd with our intel boards.

 

[cbn]

(Both cards below require the motherboard have bifurcations in the PCIe x16 slot)

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12961/gigabyte-aorus-pcie-x16-m2-for-four-nvme-drives-x399-compatible

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12987/msi-four-way-m2-pcie-card-it-looks-like-a-gpu

 

[cbn]

A low profile design (available in a two drive PCIe x 8 model and a four drive PCIe x 16 model):

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13051/gigabyte-launches-cmt4030-pcie-riser-cards-for-m2-ssds

This riser is officially aimed only at GIGABYTE’s Purley generation servers, so their work on systems based on other Intel platforms (X299, X370, etc.) is not guaranteed.

 

[cbn]

Silverstone SST-ECM23 (single PCie 3.0 x4 NVMe SSD in a PCIe 3.0 x 16 slot)

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13366/silverstone-launches-sst-ecm23-riser-card-for-m2-ssds

 

[cbn]

I really like this one a lot:

https://www.bit-tech.net/reviews/tech/motherboards/asus-rog-zenith-extreme/1/

The other two ports come courtesy of a DIMM.2 riser card that uses a ninth DIMM-like slot on the right of the board to provide two fully fledged PCIe x3 M.2 slots as well as fans for better cooling. We think this is a great idea as it not only looks better than the hideous vertical arrangements we've seen that have the SSD standing up like a skyscraper, but it's also likely they've benefit more from your case or cooler's airflow too. The module makes it much easier to get at the SSDs too and clips in place just like a memory module would.