ASUS Hyper M.2 x16 Card V2 PCIe 3.0 Expansion Card

The ASUS HYPER M.2 X16 CARD V2 is a PCIe expansion board that turns one open slot into a bank of high speed storage. By housing up to four M.2 SSDs that use the NVMe protocol, it lets a desktop or workstation tap into as much as 128 Gbps of aggregate bandwidth, provided the card sits in a full-x16 slot. Builders who work on Intel systems with Virtual RAID on CPU or on AMD Ryzen Threadripper platforms can use the card to create a bootable RAID array or simply add fast scratch space without occupying additional motherboard connectors.

Installation is straightforward: mount your drives on the card, secure it in an available PCIe 3.0 slot, and wire no extra cables. The card’s onboard power design can deliver up to 14 W to each drive, enough headroom for today’s high endurance NVMe modules. A heatsink with a wide surface area teams up with an integrated blower fan to carry heat away, so the SSDs stay within optimal temperature ranges during long renders, data migrations, or large game installs.

Because four lanes of solid state storage ride on one expansion card, the solution is well suited to editors working with 4K or 8K footage, engineers who shuffle multi-gigabyte project files, and gamers who want shorter load times without juggling multiple drives. If your current system still has an open x8 or x16 slot, the ASUS Hyper M.2 x16 Card V2 offers a neat way to scale capacity and throughput in one move.

• Installs in a PCIe 3.0 x16 slot and also works in x8 slots
• Accepts up to four M.2 SSDs that use the NVMe protocol
• Compatible with Intel VROC and AMD Ryzen Threadripper NVMe RAID setups
• Provides an aggregate bandwidth of as much as 128 Gbps
• Supplies each drive with up to 14 W through dedicated power circuitry
• Uses a large heatsink and an integrated blower fan to prevent thermal throttling