WANTED FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE DESKTOP STORAGE:

 

September 28, 2015 A.D.

 

PCIe 3.0 RAID controller with x16 edge connector

and 4 x NVMe ports (16 x PCIe 3.0 lanes total),

with 4 x cables compatible with direct-connect

2.5" NVMe SSDs.  Premium option supports

jumper block or Option ROM setting to increase

transmission clock to 16 Gb/s when PCIe 4.0 arrives.

 

For preferred cabling topology, see:

 

http://supremelaw.org/systems/intel/4-port.fan-out.cabling.topology.JPG

4-port.fan-out.cabling.topology

Source:  (not known / please advise)

 

Must support all modern RAID modes and be bootable (cf. INT13).

 

The following photo of a proprietary Intel AIC (add-in card) was found

in this next review by Patrick Kennedy dated June 23, 2015:

 

4 solutions tested: Add 2.5″ SFF NVMe to your current system

 

http://www.servethehome.com/4-solutions-tested-add-2-5-sff-nvme-current-system/

 

Intel.A2U44X25NVMEDK.jpg

The following is a photo of the Highpoint RocketRAID model 3840A

NVMe RAID controller:

 

RocketRAID.3840A.NVMe.RAID.Controller.1.jpg

 

 

Sincerely yours,

/s/ Paul A. Mitchell, B.A., M.S.

Instructor, Inventor and Systems Development Consultant

 

aka MRFS  mrfsys@gmail.com

(Memory-Resident File Systems)

 

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