ASUS HYPER M.2 X16 CARD V2 GEN4

I bought this to free up some PCI slots in my Dell Precision T7810 where I have GPU, Soundcard and multiple individual PCI NVMe disks installed. The card is well made with metal housing, included Thermal heat pads for each of the four NVMe drives and a fan to ensure good airflow inside the card housing.I have four 1Tb SSD drives installed, two are Samsung and two Sabrent and there's no issue with mixing disk brands. Installation was easy, but keep in mind this is a long PCI card so check you have enough room in the case.It's something of an exotic device aimed mostly at those with PC's capable of booting and running NVMe drives, but that are not new enough to have onboard dedicated M2 slot on their mainboard. This was the case with our Precision T7810 towers which run really well on NVMe disks but have a BIOS NVMe boot capacity limit of 1Tb meaning I cant simply put in a single or pair of 2Tb or higher NVME disks and be done.I opted then to install this card and after searching for and confirming that the T7810 will support the card went ahead and bought a couple of extra 1Tb Sabrent NVMe cards over Black Friday. You'll be best placed if you ensure you have the latest BIOS update installed first before migrating to this card.On the Precision T7810 it's a bit of a hit and miss process getting the system to power up and reach BIOS output on the monitor and we experienced long black screen issues at first, largely due to the number of different controllers on this Workstation and the huge scan time for the 64Gb ECC memory installed.After a bit of tweaking and a few hard power off cycles with the power button we eventually got to a working BIOS output on the monitor where the individual cards have to be configured in the drive and boot menu.Oddly as is normal for this card you can often find that at first full boot to Windows there will only be 2 of the 4 drives connected and visible in Device Manager. You just need to keep re-booting and refreshing Device manager. There are a couple of website guides telling you how to tweak the settings to overcome the two issues I've mentioned here.Once you have them installed and detected in Windows this card performs well, runs cool and allows you to avail of four high speed NVMe drives in either a RAID format, or as individual drives. In our case after reading up on the reliability of performance gains of pairing up the drives into a RAID 0,1 5 configuration we simply run them as standalone drives. The general consensus being that there's not a lot of improvement in real use performance with a RAID array but that it comes with much higher risk of catastrophic drive failure and data loss.The general feeling was that if you want higher disk throughput that you should move up to PCIe Gen 4 or PCIe Gen5 motherboards and that most of these come with pre-installed NVMe slots with a BIOS capable of booting from disk capacity greater than the 1Tb restriction on the Precision T7810.For the work we are doing the T7810 is now more than capable of whizzing through renders, design work and other high throughput operations without any really obvious delay to the user. We felt it's not worth upgrading to a PCIe Gen5 system as yet as the price premiums are very high as of Feb 2024 so we'll wait another few years until Gen 14 Intel i7 or i9 CPU machines with DDR5 and PCIe5 are much more affordable.So this ASUS card gives us all the space and throughput we need on our bombproof Dell T7810's and at a massive cost saving against going through another system upgrade cycle in the near future.

I’m always impressed with asus products, they are well built and also decently priced, the card works well, provided your motherboard supports bifurcation. Its given my old pc a renewed lease of life for another few years.

It's very slim (although very long, do the math beforehand of course). It works as expected with bifurcation, not much to say.Feels well built, the sticky pads are far too hard to remove the film from. Most of the mounting will be spent trying to peel those.

Works well...

Purchased this as a new item and it arrived heavily used.

You need to have a motherboard that supports bifurcation, but with that in mind this is an excellent product. It’s large but supports extra long 22110 cards (as well as the smaller ones of course). Comes with a large heat sink and a dedicated fan, though I’m using neither (my SSDs already had heat sinks and my server chassis has ample cooling). Works very well.

Does the job for storage devices, my samsung 980 pros sit comfortably at 36C. But note that the card is very long (27cm on the spec sheet I think) which disrupts the cold air flow in my case from the bottom towards the graphics card.I also have a bit of fan noise on the fan that comes with the Asus Hyper, though that is quickly masked by the fans on my GPU which kick in quicker now.So be aware of airflow disruption - my available space puts this right next to an aircooled GPU. If you have some more spacing or watercooled, then great addition and much cooler NVME than having it under my GPU.

I didnt see anywhere that specified this was for the threadripper series of cpus, but it is. It WILL still work but it depends massively on how many pcie lanes you have available. I'm not using threadripper, i have a 5950x and for instance if you already use the nvme slots on the motherboard you will not be able to use 4 nvmes in this adapter. I got it to read 3 of them.The adapter does what its meant to, the problem lies with the rest of your system, so double check.