ASUS Announces Hyper M.2 SSD Gen5 x16 Expansion Card for $79 with Bandwidth Speeds up to 512 Gb/s

[Peter_Brosdahl]

Folks looking for the fastest Gen5 SSD option have something to be excited about as ASUS announces its Hyper M.2 SSD Gen5 x16 expansion card. This expansion card is said to be capable of lightning-fast read speeds up to 512 Gb/s (64 GB/s) when using Gen5 NVMe drives in RAID0. The Hyper M.2 SSD Gen5 x 16 expansion card is capable of fitting up to 4x M.2 2242/2260/2280/22110 Gen5 drives using ASUS's tooless Q-Latch design. A single 6-pin connector provides power to the card with up to 14W per drive then the integrated blower-style cooling fan which can be controlled via ASUS's Fan Xpert 4 software. Additional cooling is provided via top and bottom thermal pads and a full-cover heatsink.

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