A few months ago, ASUS released its Hyper M.2 x16 PCIe add-in-card which is a daughter-board that can be equipped with four M.2 SSDs. This is a VROC (Virtual RAID on CPU) card and it can be used in VROC modes on compatible motherboards.

Yesterday we have done some benchmarks with this insane setup and we have achieved pretty interesting numbers. According to our tests that you can find in our M.2 & PCIe SSD chart, the ASUS Hyper M.2 x16 PCIe add-in-card appears to be an interesting product. A few months ago we have conducted tests on a single Samsung 960PRO 1TB SSD, in this way you can see the difference between this two setups.

Although the speed isn't four times faster on the ASUS Hyper M.2 x16 PCIe add-in-card, the performance difference between the two setups is still rather insane. For example in QD32 sequential write with 512K block size, the RAID0 setup can achieve up to 7'485 MB/s while the single SSD can hit barely 2'064 MB/s. In QD32 sequential read with 512K block size, the Hyper M.2 x16 add-in-card can hit 12'753 MB/s while the single Samsung 960PRO stops at 3'266 MB/s.

If you are curious to see all the scores including the IOPS values, we suggest to visit our M.2 & PCIe SSD Charts.



Source: M.2 & PCIe SSD Charts