While the synthetic benchmarks indicate blazing potential, real world performance on a Windows PC is little better than a single fast NVMe drive. That said, it’s a very easy, albeit expensive way to ...
The new SSD7540 can take any PCIe 3.0 or PCIe 4.0 SSD at up to 8TB capacities, and up to 8 of them, to provide a simply insane 28,000MB/sec (28GB/sec) transfer speeds ...
Adaptec has announced the Series 7 family, a new line of 6Gb/s RAID controllers that extends Adaptec into the PCI Express 3.0 realm. Adaptec was acquired in 2010 by PMC-Sierra, a semi-conductor ...
The RevoDrive's specs—up to 540MB/s read and 480MB/s writes—come courtesy of its onboard Silicon Image 3124 RAID controller. The card can be configured for RAID Level 0 or RAID Level 1; presumably ...
What just happened? HighPoint recently announced a handful of PCIe Gen5 add-in cards that may appeal to storage enthusiasts with deep pockets. At the top of the stack is the Rocket 7608A, a full ...
HighPoint is a name that will need no introduction to the people that will probably be interested in these products. Distinct from the budget firearms manufacturer with a similar name, HighPoint is a ...
I'm looking for a decent PCIe RAID controller. I'm planning on rolling my own NAS using a donor OptiPlex as the base. I'm looking at 5 2TB WD Red drives and 1 250GB EVEO boot SSD. SSD will boot from ...
The SmartROC (RAID-on-chip) 3200 and SmartIOC (I/O controller) 2200 from Microchip support x8 and x16 PCIe Gen 4 host interfaces and up to 32 lanes of NVMe/SAS/SATA connectivity. According to the ...
A couple of new add-in cards exemplify the trend of slapping AMD's Promontory 21 chipset onto a card for extra I/O expansion.
Carefully check your motherboard’s PCIe capabilities and BIOS bifurcation settings for its x16 slot before buying the Asus Hyper M.2 x16 Gen5. Those determine how many of the Hyper M.2 x16 Gen5’s four ...
So i've just put together an Asus Z170-Deluxe based machine and have come across this rather frustrating limitation. I've installed an M.2 PCIE SSD on the mobo only to find the moment I enable RAID ...