ASRocks releases Blazing Quad M.2: PCIe x16-add-in board with four PCIe 5.0 M.2-slots

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#6104960
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I want for a game raid drive but cannot afford it... Imagine DirectStorage on that beast!
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No mention, so I suppose bifurcated?
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To use this card you need to be able to split the PCIe of your slot (most of the time in bios)... Carefull, not all board can do it. Best choise those similar with extra controler that work with all (but indeed, are more expensive)
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rl66:

To use this card you need to be able to split the PCIe of your slot (most of the time in bios)... Carefull, not all board can do it. Best choise those similar with extra controler that work with all (but indeed, are more expensive)
Wouldn't this card work the best in a Threadripper system since you wouldn't need to worry about spending 16x PCIe for this? I imagine TR boards have all the bells and whistles.
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Valken:

I want for a game raid drive but cannot afford it... Imagine DirectStorage on that beast!
RAID'ing a game drive would probably just slow down your game since you're adding CPU overhead in a process that commonly isn't bottlenecked by NVMe disks. You could alternatively do a SATA RAID - much cheaper but probably not much slower for game load times.
rl66:

To use this card you need to be able to split the PCIe of your slot (most of the time in bios)... Carefull, not all board can do it. Best choise those similar with extra controler that work with all (but indeed, are more expensive)
I thought consumer-grade splitters had their own bifurcation chip so it wouldn't matter what the board supports? Perhaps I'm wrong - not something I really looked into for a long while.
Kaarme:

Wouldn't this card work the best in a Threadripper system since you wouldn't need to worry about spending 16x PCIe for this? I imagine TR boards have all the bells and whistles.
Haha in a TR board, you could just get riser cards with a single M.2 slot since the liklihood of you using all the available PCIe slots is slim.
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Unfortunaly this card won't do Raid.
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chispy:

Unfortunaly this card won't do Raid.
There's always software RAID, which nowadays is better to do anyway.
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chispy:

Unfortunaly this card won't do Raid.
You have to hardware or software the RAID. I have the 3.0 version of this with 4 905P Optane SSDs in VROC 0. This is an old setup but the throughput is still kind of amazing, especially for 4KQ1T1 which is usually murdered by traditional RAID 0. https://i.imgur.com/8sCtdLb.jpg
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schmidtbag:

There's always software RAID, which nowadays is better to do anyway.
Hardware raid is still faster, my motherboard do raid... but i don't use it on the motherboard. Hardware is way better on any point: speed, raid type, recovery, compatibility (even more when you have multible OSes like i have)... But the bad point is that it is expensive.
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schmidtbag:

I thought consumer-grade splitters had their own bifurcation chip so it wouldn't matter what the board supports? Perhaps I'm wrong - not something I really looked into for a long while.
Only some brand have it, Asrock and Asus as an exemple (because i know those but i guess that other do the same) and not on all the version of the motherboard with the same chipset... 🙁 Also the split should be PCIe 5 X 16 split in 4x PCIe 5 X4 it seem easy like that, but some motherboard can only do x8 + x4 + x4 so it end in 4X x2 on the NVMe... Last point: Some maker made them only working with their own motherboard... When in theory it should work with any. In the end it is inexpensive but way more complicated than it should be.
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Kaarme:

Wouldn't this card work the best in a Threadripper system since you wouldn't need to worry about spending 16x PCIe for this? I imagine TR boards have all the bells and whistles.
On the Asrock TR motherboard you can have it, you are right, on Intel WS from them too, but only on the high end version for both. BTW TR based on Zen 4 are not out... So for now only with older PCIe.
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one of the BIG advantages off SSDs is the lach of mechanical parts.. now they are readding them as fans, so instead of failing just single drives we can have a mass failure with a fan breaking 🙂 but hell yeah, looks like the x570 shitboards didn't tech anything... so sad considering in the past the MBs were used to dissipate far higher TDPs with just copper (SB+NB+iGPUs)...
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Alessio1989:

one of the BIG advantages off SSDs is the lach of mechanical parts.. now they are readding them as fans, so instead of failing just single drives we can have a mass failure with a fan breaking 🙂 but hell yeah, looks like the x570 shitboards didn't tech anything... so sad considering in the past the MBs were used to dissipate far higher TDPs with just copper (SB+NB+iGPUs)...
Stay ignorant, suits you best with your pissy fit rant.
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chispy:

Unfortunaly this card won't do Raid.
Custom storage spaces with a Column setting set to as many drives as you have.
#6105288
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I simply can't find any reason to have this, even as a professional. For me, Premiere editing in 4K is smooth enough even on a single old PCIE 3.0 SSD, and just marginally better than on a SATA Raid0 of 2 drives (which gets up to 1 GB/s) If someone knows an actual use case which would need 40 GB/s transfer rate for an array of SSDs, please let me know, I simply can't imagine any.
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Those little fans look to be stupidly loud, but yeah definitely the future. 🙂
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vestibule:

Those little fans look to be stupidly loud, but yeah definitely the future. 🙂
They are connected to a mainboard fan header, so it is up to the user to adjust the fan speed and noise. It is a possibility to not connect them and just mount a 140mm fan on there if you do not mind a thicker card. You can go passive or choice to only install 2 drives for less heat output, only consequence is maybe a slower SSD speed if the controller still heats up, the SSD is not going to die from the heat because most of them are designed to run naked. If the case has 120mm or 140mm fans in the bottom they could be plenty airflow if the distance is less then 5 cm between the case fan and this card. Do remember that the cooler is twice the size of a Geforce 1030 cooler and probably with less power usage and more thermal spread.