Sonnet M.2 4x4 PCIe Card (Silent)

• Compatible with 2019 Mac Pro
• Adds Ultra-Fast SSDs to Your System
• Achieve Sustained RAID 0 speeds up to 11,700 MB/s
• Great Way to Add Up to 32TB of M.2 SSD Storage to Computers with Thunderbolt
• macOS, Windows, and Linux RAID Support
• macOS Boot Support from Single (non-RAIDed) SSDs
• S.M.A.R.T. Support

Sonnet M.2 4x4 PCIe Card (Silent)

Four M.2 NVMe SSD slots - Add your own SSDs up to 32TB

Install up to Four M.2 NVMe SSDs into a PCIe Card Slot – Ultra-speed Data Transfers!

If you need to add internal storage to your computer and ultra high-speed data transfers are critical to your work, you need an NVMe SSD-based upgrade. Individually, M.2 NVMe PCIe SSDs offer tremendous performance, but Sonnet’s M.2 4x4 PCIe Card enables you to mount up to four of them into a single x16 card slot.

Use the Sonnet card for instant-access media storage or as a high-performance scratch disk in your Mac Pro® tower; Windows® or Linux® PC desktop or server; or Thunderbolt™ to PCIe card expansion system with an available x16 PCIe slot. Are you an Adobe After Effects user? Imagine being able to perform 4Kp60 work in 32-bit linear, or even 4Kp24 with high channel count EXRs (or effects in 8K) where your computer's onboard storage couldn’t keep up! Legacy Mac® users can install macOS® on one SSD to create an incredibly fast boot drive and create a RAID 0 set with the other installed SSDs and still obtain blazing-fast performance. No matter how you use it, this card can transform the way you work.

Full Performance Design – Sonnet Advantages

Sonnet’s M.2 4x4 PCIe card is a full-height, full-length PCIe 3.0 card with a 16-lane (x16) interface, designed to support full performance from four SSDs. Unlike “similar” adapter cards, the M.2 4x4:

• Features a 16-lane (x16) and devotes four lanes of PCIe 3.0 bandwidth to every SSD you install (instead of limiting the x4 bandwidth to two SSDs at a time)
• Is Mac, Windows®, and Linux® compatible
• Works with a wide variety of single- and double-sided M.2 PCIe SSDs
• Is self-contained and doesn’t require a specific motherboard to operate or specific SSDs to support RAID features; no PCIe bifurcation required

SPECS

Mac Compatibility

• Mac Pro 14,8 (2023)
  x16 Slot 1 or 2 (recommended slots)
  macOS 13 - macOS 14.1+
• Mac Pro 7,1 (2019)(1)
  x16 Slot 3, 4, or 5 (recommended slots)
  macOS 10.15 - macOS 12; macOS 14.4.1+
  Not compatible with macOS 13
• Mac Pro 5,1 (2010 & 2012)(2)
  x16 Slot 2 (recommended slot)
  macOS 10.13 - macOS 10.14
• Thunderbolt Expansion System
  x16 Full-length
  macOS 10.13 - macOS 14
• Some SSDs are not currently compatible with macOS. See M.2 NVMe SSDs Compatibility PDF.

Windows Compatibility

• Windows computer with an available full-length, full-height x16 PCIe slot (PCIe bifurcation not required)
• Windows 11 and 10

Linux Compatibility

• Linux computer with an available full-length, full-height x16 PCIe slot (PCIe bifurcation not required)
• Linux Kernel 5.0+

Thunderbolt Expansion System Compatibility

• Thunderbolt Expansion System with an available full-length x16 PCIe slot
• Any Mac, Windows, or Linux computer with Thunderbolt ports

Power Requirements

• When seven or eight SSDs are installed on the M.2 8x4 Silent Gen4 PCIe Card, connecting the included 6-pin PCIe auxiliary power cable between the computer’s and the card’s power connectors is  required (optional when up to six SSDs installed).

M.2 NVMe SSDs Compatibility(3)(4)

• For a list of compatible M.2 NVMe SSDs, see the following PDF

Warranty

• 2-year

Form Factor

• Single-slot, full-height, 238mm PCIe Card

Internal Connectors

• Four M-keyed (NVMe) M.2 sockets

SSDs Supported(3)(4)

• Single-sided and double-sided M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe SSDs
• For a list of supported SSDs, see M.2 NVMe SSDs Compatibility PDF

Boot Support (From a Single SSD)

• macOS
  Mac Pro 5,1 or Mac Pro 7,1
  Any Thunderbolt Mac
• Windows, Linux
  Computers with UEFI BIOS

RAID Support

• macOS(5), Windows, Linux
  RAID 0 (Stripe), 1 (Mirror), 5 (Parity), or 1+0

NVME Support

• Yes

S.M.A.R.T. Status Data Reporting Support

• Yes

RoHS Compliant

• Yes

Package Contents

• Sonnet M.2 4x4 PCIe Card
• Thermal transfer pads
• SSD mounting screws
• Documentation

Technical Notes

1. Mac Pro 7,1 (2019) does not currently support RAID or more than one PCIe card with SSDs. Sonnet is working with Apple to resolve the issue.
2. See this Mac Pro installation video for instructions to install a full-length PCIe card in the Mac Pro 5,1.
3. You may install any number of SSDs now and add more later without needing to reformat existing ones. This product’s performance will vary based on the type and number of SSDs used, the CPU speed, and the PCIe architecture.
4. Double-sided SSDs (SSDs with components on both sides) supported on FUS-SSD-4X4-E3S with serial number A01298070001890+. FUS-SSD-4X4-E3S with lower serial numbers (except serial numbers A01298060001200 to A01298060001698 inclusive) require a thermal pad modification to support double-sided SSDs.
5. RAID 5 support under macOS requires third-party software such as SoftRAID, sold separately.