Add up to 32TB of SSD Storage! Ultra-speed Data Transfers!
If you need to add internal storage to your computer and ultra high-speed data transfers are critical to your work, you need an NVMe SSD-based upgrade. Individually, M.2 NVMe PCIe SSDs offer tremendous performance, but Sonnet’s M.2 4x4 PCIe Card enables you to mount up to four of them into a single x16 card slot and combine their performance. No matter how you use it, this card can transform the way you work.
Use the Sonnet card for instant-access media storage or as a high-performance scratch disk in your Mac Pro® tower; Windows® or Linux® PC desktop or server; or Thunderbolt™ to PCIe card expansion system with an available x16 PCIe slot. Are you an Adobe After Effects user? Imagine being able to perform 4Kp60 work in 32-bit linear, or even 4Kp24 with high channel count EXRs (or effects in 8K) where your computer's onboard storage couldn’t keep up! Legacy Mac® users can install macOS® on one SSD to create an incredibly fast boot drive and create a RAID 0 set with the other installed SSDs and still obtain blazing-fast performance. No matter how you use it, this card can transform the way you work.
Full Performance Design – Sonnet Advantages
Sonnet’s M.2 4x4 PCIe card is a full-height, full-length PCIe 3.0 card with a 16-lane (x16) interface, designed to support full performance from four SSDs. Unlike “similar” adapter cards, the M.2 4x4:
- Features a 16-lane (x16) and devotes four lanes of PCIe 3.0 bandwidth to every SSD you install (instead of limiting the x4 bandwidth to two SSDs at a time)
- Is Mac, Windows®, and Linux® compatible
- Works with a wide variety of single- and double-sided M.2 PCIe SSDs
- Is self-contained and doesn’t require a specific motherboard to operate or specific SSDs to support RAID features; no PCIe bifurcation required
Adobe After Effects User?
Are you an Adobe® After Effects user? Imagine being able to perform 4Kp60 work in 32-bit linear, or even 4Kp24 with high channel count EXRs (or effects in 8K) where your computer’s onboard storage couldn’t keep up! Sonnet's M.2 4x4 PCIe Card makes it possible.
Mac Pro 5,1 User?
Mac Pro 5,1 users can install macOS® on one SSD to create an incredibly fast boot drive and create a RAID 0 set with the other installed SSDs and still obtain blazing-fast performance. Sonnet’s M.2 4x4 PCIe Card makes it possible.
Silent and Cool Running. No Slowdowns. No Thermal Throttling.
SSDs heat up significantly when performing very large file transfers. This presents a problem for most competing cards, as they provide inadequate cooling for this task and allow installed SSDs to activate their built-in thermal throttling protection feature — thermal throttling drastically cuts SSDs’ performance while allowing them to cool. Sonnet designed the M.2 4x4 PCIe Card with a silent cooling solution to prevent thermal throttling, enabling SSDs to maintain their high performance at all times.
Thunderbolt Port? Connect Four SSDs Through One Cable
Got a Thunderbolt connection, but no PCIe card slot? Sonnet’s M.2 4x4 PCIe Card is ideal for use in one of our Thunderbolt expansion systems that accept full-length PCIe cards. The combo enables you to add up to four SSDs to any Mac (M1, M2, M1 Pro, M1 Max, M1 Ultra, Intel), Windows, and Linux computer with Thunderbolt ports.
Simple and S.M.A.R.T
Integrating a Sonnet M.2 4x4 PCIe Card into your system is easy — NVMe compliance ensures the necessary drivers are installed automatically. The M.2 4x4 uses the operating systems’ built-in drive formatting utilities to format the SSDs. SSD health monitoring is supported through S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) data reporting, too.
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Sonnet Technologies Sonnet M.2 4x4 Silent PCIe Card Specifications |
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| Mac Compatibility |
Mac Pro 7,1 (2019) – Use x16 PCIe slot (slot 3, 4, or 5) for full performance
Mac Pro 5,1(1) (Mid 2010 & Mid 2012) with available full-length x16 PCIe slot macOS 10.13.6+ macOS Ventura compatible |
| Windows Compatibility |
Windows computer with available full-length, full-height x16 PCIe slot (PCIe bifurcation not required)
Windows 11 and 10 |
| Linux Compatibility | Linux computer with available full-length, full-height x16 PCIe slot (PCIe bifurcation not required) Linux Kernel 5.0+ |
| Thunderbolt Compatibility | Mac (M1, M2, M1 Pro, M1 Max, M1 Ultra, and Intel®) computer via a Thunderbolt PCIe card expansion system with available full-length x16 PCIe slot Windows computer via a Thunderbolt PCIe card expansion system with available full-length x16 PCIe slot Linux computer via a Thunderbolt PCIe card expansion system with available full-length x16 PCIe slot |
| M.2 NVMe SSDs Compatibility | For a list of compatible M.2 NVMe SSDs, see the following PDF |
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Hardware |
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| Form Factor |
Full-length, full-height computer card
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| Internal Connectors | Four M-keyed (NVMe) M.2 sockets |
| SSDs Supported | Intel X540/X550 (subject to part availability) |
| Network Support | Single-sided and double-sided(6) M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe SSDs M.2 NVMe SSDs Compatiblity PDF |
| Boot Suppport | macOS - Only from a single SSD (not RAIDed) - Mac Pro 5,1 or Mac Pro 7,1 - Any Thunderbolt Mac Windows, Linux - No |
| RAID Support | macOS, Windows, Linux - RAID 0, 1, or 5 (Stripe, Mirror, or Parity) |
| NVME Support | Yes |
| S.M.A.R.T. Status Data Reporting Support | Yes |
| RoHS Compliant | Yes |
- Sonnet M.2 4x4 PCIe Card
- Thermal transfer pads
- SSD mounting screws
- 2-years Limited Manufacturer's Warranty