ASUS Hyper M.2 x16 Card v2 4 x M.2 Socket 3

Perfect add-on card for m.2s ,amazingly built ,easy to install the drives too compared to others that iv used , also theres a small fan inside that works quite well and is not noisy .i would definitely recomend

Got this to attach a single Samsung NVME drive to an old but still very good Intel Haswell based Z87 motherboard primarily for use with Adobe suite. Installed Adobe software directly on the NVME drive rather than the C (SSD) drive and the performance gains were instantly noticeable e.g loading up Premiere Pro, timelines etc.The slick aesthetics gives it a premium feel and look compared to other adapters on the market. What more since the casing is used as a heat spreader along with an active fan, the drive remains cool and isn't throttled under full load. Haven't noticed the fan noise that another reviewer mentioned since all the other fans in the PC completely drown it out. I haven't been able to push temps beyond 46° under full load which is incredible because I was hitting near 70° using a generic adapter and heatsink before.Next step is to figure out how to mod the Z87 bios so I can use it as a bootable OS drive and add a second drive.Overall very happy for now with great potential for when/if I decide to upgrade my system further down the line.

It is important to check your motherboard compatibility before buying this. In my case, it is an ideal companion card for an X399 Threadripper build for VROC. The card is PCIE 3.0 (newer motherboards have PCIE 4.0 so this is not relevant to you) and goes into x16 or x8 slots. Note that x16 is needed if you intend to use all four M.2 sockets on the card, otherwise x8 is okay for two sockets on the card (each M.2 SSD uses x4 PCI lanes). This will make or break it for you depending what free PCIE slots you have. I have installed 2x M.2 NVMe SSD with M-key 2280 length in RAID 0 (stripe).Pros:1) Single slot height2) Amazing Asus build quality e.g. solid aluminium heatsink, strong board, high power delivery to M.2 SSDs3) Attention to detail with all screws included, pre-applied thermal heat pads, switch to disable fan4) Speed, oh the speedCons:1) Not a simple task to configure this and instructions are inadequate for setting up JBOD or RAID (0, 1, 5 and 6)2) Fan is awfully noisy and grates on you very quickly (it has to be off except for benchmarking making it redundant)3) LEDs are a nice idea but who can see them out of the back of your case?4) Card is not far off a small GPU in size so space considerations could be an issue for someOverall, I am happy with the speed gains but why such a cheap, whining and annoying fan?

the card works great. I have 2 NVME drives in it.

Tried this with my 5800X, surprisingly it didn’t work straight away, messed around in the BIOS, couple of google searches later found out it needed intel based RAID software, moral of the story do research before you buy haha

Thanks, I am happy with my purchase

First off - the 1 star is SOLELY for the seller which is Scan. If you choose a different seller I imagine your experience will be remarkably better. The item itself is a solid 4 stars!I've used these before on system builds and if you have a new AMD system it will take 2 NVMe drives. If you go for a motherboard that takes a Threadripper processor you can use 4 NVMe drives. Intel builders need Intel brand NVMe drives. So check your motherboard and processor first for compatibility. I give the product 4 stars as it opens up a lot of expansion and the chance for doing a decent RAID set-up. I drop one star only because it takes up a x16 slot regardless of your system's ability to run all four drives. If you have an older system this device may only run 1 drive. If this is you then there are cheaper single-NVMe PCIE cards available.Build quality is top notch, the card is an ASUS brand with an attractive heavyweight heatsink with a quiet built in fan (which you can turn off or on with a physical switch). Due to the weight which is comparable to a medium to high-end graphics card its reassuring to use an ASUS mobo with their reinforced sockets! The one thing I can't comment on is benchmarking which I haven't done as I find this not useful in the real world with people having different hardware and setups. My experience with these cards is that they are extraordinarily fast even in comparison to SSDs.

Works great in my Asus x570 motherboard.Got it in pcie slot 2 which is them working at 8x as the 16x is split from the first slot.Only problem is you cannot use all 4 slots on the card as there aren't enough lanes left. There is only 8 lanes left which can be split into two 4x lanes which you need to do in the BIOS settings.You need to set PCIe slot 2 to PCI RAID and then you need to go into the NVME express bios setting and turn on RAID in there. You will then be able to see both the 1st two slots on the card. If you don't set NVME to RAID you will ONLY see 1 of the drives.Was racking my brain for ages as to why I could only see 1 card after splitting the PCIe 2 slot. NVME RAID solves this. Not sure why this is as the card doesn't do any RAID anyways, but just allows the PCIe slot to be split between the drives.To use this card to its full potential it would have to be used with a threadripper CPU/mobo but that is way out of my price range currently. I'm very happy with 2 drives in the mobo and another 2 in the Asus card. Thats more than enough storage.