While a single M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD offers tremendous performance — 10x more than that of a spinning drive — Sonnet’s M.2 2x4 Low-profile PCIe Card enables you to mount two of them into a single x8 card slot and combine their performance. The M.2 2x4 card features:<br /><br />• <b>16 Lane PCIe Bridge</b><br />With an 8 lane PCIe connection to the host the high-performance PCIe 3.0 bridge chip devotes four lanes of PCIe bandwidth to each SSD to support maximum performance<br />• <b>Self-contained</b><br />The card’s SSD RAID configuration support doesn’t require a specific motherboard or SSDs to operate — no PCIe bifurcation required<br />• <b>Universal Compatibility</b><br />Compatible with Mac Windows and Linux computers with an x8 PCIe slot<br />• <b>Broad M.2 NVMe SSD Support</b><br />Works with a wide variety of M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe SSDs<br /><br /><br /><b>MACOS BOOT SUPPORTER.
APPLICATIONS’ SCRATCH DISK. NO THERMAL THROTTLING. FULL PERFORMANCE.</b><br />SSDs heat up significantly while performing very large file transfers and will protect themselves from overheating by “thermal throttling” — a feature that drastically cuts SSDs’ performance until they cool off to a safe level.
The Sonnet M.2 2x4 Low-profile PCIe Card’s silent SSD cooling solution works to keep SSDs always cool enough to eliminate the need for thermal throttling and enables your SSDs to always maintain their highest potential performance.<br /><br /><b>CONNECT TWO SSDS THROUGH ONE CABLE</b><br />Got a Thunderbolt connection but no PCIe card slot? Sonnet’s M.2 2x4 Low-profile PCIe Card is ideal for use in any one of Sonnet’s Thunderbolt expansion systems.
SSD health monitoring is supported through S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) data reporting too.<br /><br /><b>MORE SSDS? MORE CONNECTIVITY?</b><br />Do you need to install more than two M.2 NVMe SSDs? Or do you need more connectivity in addition to dual SSD support?

