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SYBA SI-PEX40161 PCI-Express 3.0 x16 PCI-Express Quad M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 PCIe x16 Expansion Card Intel VROC and AMD Ryzen Threadripper NVMe Raid
$36.03
SYBA SI-PEX40161 PCI-Express 3.0 x16 PCI-Express Quad M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 PCIe x16 Expansion Card Intel VROC and AMD Ryzen Threadripper NVMe Raid
| Brand |
SYBA |
|---|---|
| Model |
SI-PEX40161 |
| Type |
PCI-Express |
| Internal Connectors |
4 x M.2 |
| Interface |
PCI-Express 3.0 x16 |
| SSD Form Factor |
M.2 2280 |
| Features |
Intel VROC technology and AMD Ryzen Threadripper support enables creation of bootable NVMe RAID arrays using CPU PCIe lanes.New two-phase power solution with up to 19.8 Watt output supports the latest NVMe drives.Large heatsink reduces M.2 SSD temperatures for unthrottled transfer speeds and enhanced reliability.Large heatsink reduces M.2 SSD temperatures for unthrottled transfer speeds and enhanced reliability. Support for up to four PCIe 3.0 M.2 drives with transfer bandwidth up to 128Gbps.Supports 2230 ,2242 ,2260 ,2280 size NGFF SSD. Supports four NGFF M.2 M Key socket available |
| First Listed on Newegg |
July 27 ,2021 |
6 reviews for SYBA SI-PEX40161 PCI-Express 3.0 x16 PCI-Express Quad M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 PCIe x16 Expansion Card Intel VROC and AMD Ryzen Threadripper NVMe Raid
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kcir –
Pros: autodetected one of the four drives without drivers and it functioned well. Cons: showed up with no drivers, instructions, mounting hardware, or anything else at all. contacted corporate and they promised to send drivers. almost a month later and i’ve not heard back nor received anything at all. the website either does not have drivers or is broken to where you cannot download them. seems to be an unsupported trash product. doesn’t even show up in device manager or bios with or without a problem and just acts like a m.2 passthrough for one of the four drives. also completely blocked airflow to my video card in standard mounting, causing overheating issues. Overall Review: do not buy.
Emily E. –
Pros: I have a motherboard with bifurcation support, and put it in a slot with bifurcation enabled. All four drives (Crucial P5 1TB) were detected. If it doesn’t work for you, you probably didn’t read that bit of the requirements. Cons: I currently have four computers in my office, with a total of 11 fans (12 if you count the ceiling fan). All of them were running at the time I tried this card. One of them even has a bad bearing that causes it to make more noise than it should. There’s a constant low level of fan noise throughout the room all the time.
I say this to put the following into perspective: the fan on this card was louder than all of the rest of the fans in this room combined. It was all I could hear, and was so incredibly annoying that I had to shut down the machine and swap back to the fanless card I was using previously. Overall Review: It would’ve been great, if not for that one flaw. The card has space to at least double the diameter of the fan, so I’m not sure why they went with the tiny screamy fan.
FoxLynx64 –
Pros: It does work when you have more than one drive, but does not detect all of them. Cons: When using one drive it does not work, when using two drives one of them has to be in channel 2 and the other will not work, and if you have any other configuration with two drives then none of them are detected.
The fan is loud but not that bad. I can live with the fan.
The Manuel is very simple only being a single page which makes major details left out leaving wondering how to actually get it working Overall Review: Im using an asrock b450 pro4 motherboard with a rhyzen 5 and a GeForce RTX 3060. I have an HDD, standard SSD and just bought 2 NVMes to use in the RAID controller. If you have to put 4 NVMe drives in it for it to detect all the drives then that should be stated in the product listing. I saw reviews of other people having problems but thought that maybe they didnt enable bifurcation which would essentially give you the same problems as he had. Nope, I moved one of the NVMe drives onboard the computer and lost the second one on the controller. I understand this is a cheap option but I would recommend not buying it at all because it just doesnt work properly whatsoever. If someone could walk me through this and help get it working I would definitely change my mind about the product but I just dont see how it would be possible to make the product work in my computer. If SYBA wants to send me another one then Im more than willing to try it, but I doubt it will work. I looked around tons of forums for anyone having similar problems and most of them can at least detect the drives in the UEFI and I cant. I updated my BIOS, installed NVMe drivers and AMD RAID drivers, and I even tried just about every setting that could possible do something to storage controllers to no avail. Theres one thing I havent tried, re-formatting the drives individually and then sticking them in the controller which could work but I doubt it. They say the controller should work without drivers, but to be honest some drivers would have probably saved this product from failing so miserably. If theres one word to describe this product, it is horrible. If you bought this, I would get my money back before you get it because its not worth the hassle.
Michael R. –
Overall Review: Didn’t arrive at first, but now has been corrected. Thank you for your help and attention!
Robert K. –
Pros: Nice overall appearance if it worked. Cons: When inserted into a Supermicro H11SSL-i based EPYC system, the machine will rapidly power on and off, and will never boot. This board does properly support bifurcated PCIe (I have other bifurcated devices in this system already, which work correctly), but the system will not get to the point where bifurcation will even come into play. I have tested two of these cards on two different systems, and they both have the same issue. Overall Review: If you have a Supermicro H11SSL-i, then this will not work.
Anonymous –
Pros: Works mostly Cons: Odd functionality exhibited (Possible defect?) Overall Review: Tried in 2 functional systems w/ 4 PCIe Gen 4 x 4 drives:
1st a Lenovo Thinkstation P500 (Haswell era). 1st power cycle boots but with alarm flasher on front panel (never seen before!). System was pre-set for bifurcaton so Windows identified & functioned with 4 drives on board as expected. However, system shutdown didn’t power off completely (power light on front panel remained lit) and power button then wouldn’t function at all! A plug pull or cycle of the UPS would be required to re-start. Weird! But didn’t debug, just pulled from system.
2nd in a homebuilt system using a cheap Chinese X99 board (of questionable quality from Ali site also Haswell era tech). Everything seems to function properly except power light on front panel remains on as long as power is supplied to system.
No clue if this is indicative of a defect on the board or a quirk in the design. I did try unplugging the fan to see what would happen & saw no effect. It’s not worth the hassle to try to return or replace – I can accept it as is. I will mention that I already have a very similar ASUS brand unit (possibly v1 vs v2 model) that has run for a couple years in a Thinkstation P520 system. I never used the heatsink on that one and removed the fan as I saw them as unnecessary in that application.
I bought on sale with cheap shipping so worth it for me but ymmv!