Sonnet M.2 4×4 Silent PCIe 3.0 x16 Card for NVMe SSDs
$259.99
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Description
Expand your computer’s storage capacity by installing the M.2 4×4 Silent PCIe 3.0 x16 Card from Sonnet into an available PCI express x16 slot. There are four M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe sockets built onto this card, supporting up to 32TB of double-sided solid-state storage in RAID 0, 1, or 5 configurations. Sustained read speeds can reach up to 11,700 MB/s and with a 11,600 MB/s maximum write speed in RAID 0 mode using a 2019 Mac Pro, providing the performance needed for demanding tasks such as video editing, 3D modeling, design, and more. A custom designed passive, silent cooling solution allows drives to maintain high performance during large file transfers without speed throttling. The self-contained card works with most motherboards with an available PCIe 3.0 x16 slot using macOS, Windows 10, and Linux operating systems alongside a wide variety of M.2 NVMe PCIe SSDs.
Additional information
| Weight | 1.18 lbs |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 14.7 × 6.4 × 2.3 in |
| Host Interface | PCI Express 3.0 x16 |
| M.2 | 4 x 2280 (PCIe 3.0 x4) |
| RAID Modes | RAID 0, 1, 5 |
| OS Compatibility | macOS 10.13.6 or Later<br />Windows 10<br />Linux 5.0 or Later |
| Audible Alarm | No |
| Status Monitoring | None |
Reviews (8)
8 reviews for Sonnet M.2 4×4 Silent PCIe 3.0 x16 Card for NVMe SSDs
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Jimmie Champlin (verified owner) –
This is a great card. It costs bank, but it is what you need if your computer can not do PCI-e bifurcation. (Which I found out the hard way!) I have this setup in RAID 0 (Zero) as a SWAP drive with 4, 512GB NVMes. The only thing I would of do different in the future would be to buy bigger NVMes so I have more available swap space to work with. In Summary: This is a nice easy card to use, that is plug and play and requires no drivers. Just go to your storage management on your computer and format your new Sonnet card NVME drives for use.
Theodora Jones (verified owner) –
I have installed this with four PNY Technologies CS2130 2TB M.2 NVMe SSDs. I think the speed is limited by the bus since the speed of the stripe is over 6GB/s and the individual speed was nearly 3GB/s. This configuration gives me a very fast 8TB drive to use as a scratch disk, speeding up the loading and saving of video and other large projects.
Doyle Boyle (verified owner) –
I’m getting twice the speed out of my Samsung 970 Plus as I was with the Startech PCIe card
Pansy Mraz (verified owner) –
The hardware is as expected, but the documentation falls way short. The Quick Start Guide gets you as far as getting the card into your workstation successfully, but then drops you off a cliff without addressing the issue of creating the RAID. Creating a RAID is the whole reason why someone would want to buy one of these cards. Tech support at Sonnet arrogantly proclaims that the company doesn’t want to recommend a particular RAID creation solution, so it neither discusses nor mentions any. If they wanted to, they could mention Windows Disk Manager Striping, Windows Storage Spaces, or RAID creation software from Acronis, Samsung, Western Digital or Seagate, and provide the links. It would take up two sentences in the Quick Start Guide. This is a prime example of a company selling you hardware without providing a roadmap to a complete solution. The middling rating is not the hardware’s fault, it’s the documentation department’s and the arrogance of the tech support department.
Clare Becker (verified owner) –
I installed with 4x2TB Evo Plus NVME SSDs in a 2019 Mac Pro. Configured it as a RAID 0 with Apple’s disk utility. The speeds I get are 6800+ MB/s on write and up t 8100 MB/s on read. Just blows my mind!
Robert Lehner (verified owner) –
I loaded this baby up with four 2TB cards. Did not bother creating a raid because it is so fast as is. The original 500Gig cards I had in it, I moved it over to M2.0 enclosures to create a great storage exchange system.
Alaina Koch (verified owner) –
I’ve been using the Sonnet m.2 PCIe SSD for over a year now in my 2019 Mac Pro 7,1 and it was worked flawlessly. R/W is crazy fast. No issues. Nice to have the fast and upgradeable SSD for After Effects and current projects.
Jake Rice (verified owner) –
Added 4 Samsung m.2 ssd cards to this and blazing fast under raid 0 even via the old PCIe 3 connection. The card will slightly bend when you put on all the thermo pads and tighten the heat sink but otherwise perfect. No sound and heat managed very well.