At Computex Taipei, ASUS, ASRock, MSI, and Hewlett-Packard all showed that they can install four M.2 SSD parallel PCI-E x16 expansion cards. Plextor also came up with its own solution, which is a bit different and generous. Published actual performance.
Plett called it 'M9Pe Extreme ', and the biggest difference between similar products is There is a Marvell 88NR2241 PCI-E bridge chip that supports four PCI-E 3.0 x4s at one end and connects exactly to the M9Pe M.2 SSD with four PCI-E 3.0 x4 interfaces.
The other end is PCI-E 3.0 x8, although the overall performance can not be fully released, but now it is high enough, and the biggest advantage is that it does not need to take up the PCI-E bandwidth of the processor or chipset.
Plextor declared that In the case of using four M9Pe 1TB RAID 0 arrays, continuous read and write speeds can go to 6.5GB/s, 3.0GB/s, and the scene has also been demonstrated.
M9Pe is Plextor’s flagship SSD, M.2, PCI-E, Marvell 88SS1093 eight-channel master, Toshiba 3D TLC flash, capacity 256GB, 512GB, 1TB, continuous read and write performance up to 3GB/s , 1GB/s, random read and write up to 180,000 IOPS, 160,000 IOPS, lifetime write capacity 160TB, 320TB, 640TB, average time between failure more than 1.5 million hours, five years warranty.
And in addition to its own M9Pe, Pulte said In the later period, users will be allowed to insert other M.2/NVMe SSDs themselves, and the array mode will also support RAID 1.
However, this product has not yet been finalized. It may not be released until the end of this year or next year. Of course, this is a plaything for local tyrants. The price cannot be imagined.
