ASRock Rack M.2 adapter: PCIe 4.0 x16 becomes 4x PCIe 4.0 x4

Source: Hardware Luxx added 30th Dec 2020

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ASRock Rack has introduced another piece of interesting hardware and accessories. The M.2 GPU M2_VGA is now followed by a PCI-Express expansion card, which has 16 PCI Express 4.0 lanes are connected, and these 16 Lanes divided into four times four M.2 slots. Such an expansion card is not really new either. ASUS offers this as Hyper M.2 X 16 Gen 4 Card.

In the form of the RB4M2_G4, such a card is kept quite simple, much more compact (73, 65 mm x 144, 78 mm) and works without a fan. M.2 SSDs in the format 6751, 2280, 2260 and 2242. The four M.2 SSDs are housed two each on the front and back.

Just like the M2_VGA, there is no information about the price of the RB4M2_G4 either. The only information available comes from the associated product page.