Squid Carrier Board™ Family
PCI Express Gen 3 Carrier Board for 4 M.2 PCIe SSD modules (B series)
(requires bifurcation support from motherboard)

COST EFFECTIVE

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PCI Express Gen 3 Carrier Board

for up to 4 M.2 PCIe SSD Modules (B Series)

Overview:

Unique half height (2U) cost-effective PCI Express Carrier board
Requires PCI Express bifurcation support from motherboard (x4/x4/x4/x4)
Easy “Plug & Play” installation, no drivers needed
Supports up to 4 any type M.2 PCI Express SSD modules (M-key) (2260/2280/22110)
Standard one-slot-wide half-height (2U) PCI Express board (US Pat. 9,996,494)
x4 PCI Express Gen 3 connection to each of M.2 circuit
x16 PCI Express upstream connection to the motherboard
Compliant with PCI Express Specification 4.x, M.2 Specification 5.x
Open concept; Effective heat dissipation; Easy SSD module installation
Easy removable cooling fan
Dimensions: 142 x 65 mm (without fan); 176 x 65 mm (with fan)
RoHS-compliant

B-series PCI Express Gen3 Carrier board was designed as a cost-effective storage solution for the systems that are using a motherboard with PCI Express bifurcation support. Such motherboards can be configured in the BIOS to split x16 PCI interface to four PCI Express interfaces by utilizing the following PCIe lanes:

x4 PCI Express interface 1: lanes 0,1,2,3 from x16 PCIe interface;
x4 PCI Express interface 2: lanes 4,5,6,7 from x16 PCIe interface;
x4 PCI Express interface 3: lanes 8,9,10,11 from x16 PCIe interface;
x4 PCI Express interface 4: lanes 12,13, 14, 15, from x16 PCIe interface;

Each of four x4 PCI Express interface connects on the Carrier board to dedicated M.2 circuit.

Carrier board supports up to 4 any M.2 PCIe SSD (solid state drive) modules with M-key and length 2260, 2280 and 22110. The operating system recognizes each module as an individual hard disk and can combine them as RAID.

This Carrier board as all products from SQUID Carrier Board™ Family is a one-slot-wide, half-height PCI express board. It is based on the patented architecture when carrier board is located in the middle of the PCI express slot and connects to the motherboard PCI Express connector by exchangeable adapter (US Pat. 9,996,494; additional patient pending).
PCI Express Carrier board is complying with PCI Express Specification 4.x and M.2 Specification 5.x.