Akasa Dual M.2 PCIe SSD adapter with RGB LED light and heatsink !
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- Akasa Dual M.2 PCIe SSD adapter with RGB LED light and heatsink !
Akasa AK-PCCM2P-04 Dual M.2 PCIe SSD Adapter Card with RGB LED Lighting and Heatsink
Converts two M.2 PCIe SSD to work in the main board PCIe x4 bus slot, reduces SSD heat, adds digital addressable RGB colour
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Hi there! I subbed for the style points and thanks for the review - however, I gotta point out a few things I can tell you aren't picking up about this product - no flames, just good ole info :)
So the Dual Card is cool, NOT because it can be vertically mounted like a GPU, although that IS possible and nice for the upcoming 2.9 slot GPUS! However its not made with that in mind - its actually made to run TWO PCIE x 4 m.2 nvme SSDs at ONCE. It does that by installing the card into one of your PCIE x 16 slots, like you did in the review, and then you install the second PCIE x 4 riser cable coming out of the Akasa card to the THIRD PCIE x 16 slot. You connect BOTH AT ONCE. So with your GPU is PCIE x 16 slot one, you would have the card in PCIE x 16 slot three, and the riser cable in PCIE x 16 slot #2.
There is NO other way to run 2 PCIE style M.2 SSDs off of one PCIE x 4 card. What you have there, is almost EXACTLY like putting TWO of the Akasa SINGLE PCIE cards into your pc. The only difference is you can connect the second via a riser cable you may be able to snake under your GPU, or to simply avoid buying 2 cards.
ALL OTHER DUAL SSD cards that go in a PCIE x 4 slot are 1 PCIE M.2 SSD and 1 SATA M.2 SSD. --- THESE ARE NOT EQUIVALENT. PCIE M.2 drives are much faster than the SATA version, though they are very hard to tell apart.
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Lastly - what you ACTUALLY did by installing the SINGLE card into your SECOND PCIE x 16 slot (incorrectly) instead of into the THIRD PCIE x 16 slot (correct) is you GIMPED YOUR GPU - You did NOT affect transfer speeds of the drives.
*Your PCIE x 16 slot #1, which is ALWAYS used for GPUs, runs at x16, but NOT if you have a PCIE x 4 card installed in teh SECOND SLOT. It automatically slows the #1 slot DOWN to x8 mode. You can see this for yourself by downloading GPU-Z and seeing what mode your GPU runs in. You'll see it will be PCIE x 8 if you have ANY card installed in slot #2.
By installing ONLY PCIE x 4 in the THIRD PCIE x 16 slot, you KEEP your GPU in x16 mode, and allow for ONE PCIE M.2 NVMe ssd. Installing a second - either through using 2 of the Akasa single drive cards, or the dual card - is going to drop your GPU down to PCIE x 8 mode EVEN THOUGH its installed in slot #1 PCIE x 16.
So it goes like this - three basic PCIE lane options with your 3 PCIE x 16 slots:
#1: PCIE x 16 - #2: EMPTY - #3: PCIE x 4 IIts a PCIE x 16 slot, but in reality it is x4 max, it will just HOLD a card thats made for x16. (Except for some of the latest AMD boards)
OR
#1: PCIE x 8 - #2: PCIE x 8 - #3: PCIE x 4
OR
#1: PCIE x 8 - #2: PCIE x 4 - #3: PCIE x 4
Option #1 and Option #2 above use ALL your normal PCIE lanes except x 1. However - AGAIN - ANYTHING IN SLOT #2 drops your GPU to PCIE x 8 mode.)
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Hi, I'm not trying to make the author of the vid look bad, however, there are some misconceptions in this vid. The card he is using is designed to use 2 pcie 4x slots in order to overcome the problem of Bifurcation on motherboards that do not support it. Bifurcation is a feature that alows you to split PCIE slots into 4x channels for use with nvme drives via the BOIS on motherboards that support built in hardware RAID (or anything else that needs 4x)
Bifurcation lets a 16x slot host 4 4x channels and make use of 4 nvme drives on a single card like the ASUS Hyper M2x16 card. Each nvme can be seen as a seperate drive and make use of hardware RAID on boards that support it. An 8x slot can host 2 drives and a single 4x can host 1. If you try to plug a 4 drive card into a machine without Bifurcation to split the16x into 4 4x channels, what happens will depend entirely on the hardware and BIOS, you may see all the drives, you may see none, or you may see only 1 (the first one), it all depends on your hardware.
The card in the vid will let you host 2 nvme drives using 2 4x slots, one 4x PCIE the card is plugged into and an additional 4x PCIE slot via the cable, so it is best suited for motherboards that have 2 4x PCIE slots available like the Z370 or Z390. While it is possible to plug the card into an 8x or 16x slot, doing so will effectively waste the additional channels offered by those slots as it is only wired with a 4x connector. Of course, if you have nothing else available to plug into, then an 8x or 16x may be your only choice.
If you dont have a motherboard that supports Bifurcation, and only have a x16 available, you would be better off buying a card like the ADWITS Quad M.2 NVMe SSD PCIe X16 Adapter that will let you host up to 4 NVME drives on a single 16x slot, please be aware that hardware RAID will not be available, but you may use software RAID via the opsys or via the intel storage manager providing you are using intel nvme drives(this is because the intel storage manager ususally will only recognise intel nvme drives).
If you want to hardware RAID the nvme drives, then Bifurcation is a must have, but the card in the vid should let you software RAID because its using 2 channels on 2 seperate 4x PCIE slots, then the opsys should see them as seperate drives and let you software RAID them together.
I hope this helps anyone on a budget who is trying to add more nvme drives to their computer.
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Mate, not gunna lie that looks like a lot of arssing about for some rgb:) looks good don't get me wrong.
Great video as always mate.👍
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It's not bad as I said the vertical mounted way if you can't afford a rgb graphics card or you already have one, this another solution too😀
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Thanks for the video. Puzzling question. The adapter has two M-Key connectors or two B-Key connectors ?
One can mount only 2 x M.2 SSD (the most common with both M+B keys ). One drive is access from the Pci-E slot and the other through the SATA connector, I suppose.
If it does have an M-key connector, only one drive can be an M.2 Nvme.
Can you still boot from these nvme drives in this card holder please?
HI I have same card,. I am bit confused, Did you have to plug the long cable in another slot ? Gave you a sub to ? thanks
I did yes, I waiting to hear back from Akasa
Is this mounted in one of the GPU slot or is it the smaller one? I have a motherboard from MSI, B365 Pro-VDH and don’t know if it would work?
Hi, unfortunatly this card will not work on your motherboard. The B365 Pro-VDH has a 16x slot, presumably in use by your GPU, and two 1x slots that are too small to accept the 4x edge connectors used by the nvme card in the vid. On the plus side, you do have 6 SATA III connections on the B365 Pro-VDH , so you can mount a nvme drive in a sata converter card like the M.2 NGFF B/B+M KEY and/or mSATA SSD Hard Drive to SATA III 3 Board Adapter Card, or the StarTech.com M.2 SSD to 2.5in SATA Adapter, which will let you mount the card in a spare HDD 2.5 inch mounting in your computer case. Be aware though that the speed will be limited by the SATA interface to 6gb per sec max but its pretty much your only option. Given the overall cost of the options you have, you would be better off ust buying and installing a good Solid State Drive (SSD) like a SANDISK, or a Samsung EVO as you would not need to bother with an additional mouting card or have to deal with any thermal problems (nvme drives can run very hot when heavily used)
Also, I don't know if your aware, but your motherboard has a built in M2 slot, its between the 16x slot and the uppermost 1x slot. You most likely already know this, but if you didnt, you don't need any additional hardware to put an M2 nvme in. If you only have a traditional 3.5 HDD, you may want to consider cloning it to the new nvme drive and then booting straight to the nvme, it will speed up your computer like crazy.
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