Squid PCI Express Gen 3 Carrier Board for six (6) M.2 NVME PCIe SSD modules

This Squid PCIe Carrier board can support up to six M.2 or NGSFF (NF1) PCIe SSD (solid state drive) modules, with M-key.

Supported module dimensions are 2280 or 22110 in length, and a width of up to 32 mm. SSD modules of any capacity may be used, from any vendor, and in any combination.

When the carrier board is installed in a computer chassis with powerful cooling fans (e.g., PC servers, Mac Pro 2019), the two cooling fans that the carrier board comes with can easily be disconnected and removed in order to:

• Minimize noise
• Avoid blocking the chassis fan’s airflow.

In a computer chassis where cooling airflow is poor, the two carrier board fans will improve airflow to the carrier board.

The operating system recognizes each module as an individual hard disk and can combine them as a RAID.

The six-module PCI Express carrier board is the fastest carrier board on the market. It utilizes the full bandwidth of the 16-lane PCI Express Gen 3 upstream interface.

This is a one-slot-wide carrier board, as are all products in the Squid Carrier Board™ Family. It is based on our patented architecture where the carrier board is in the middle of the PCI express slot, and connects to the motherboard PCI express connector by exchangeable x16 or x8 PCI Express upstream adapters (US Pat. 9,996,494; additional patent pending).

PCI Express Carrier board is compliant with PCI Express Specification 3.0 and M.2 Specification 1.1.