Rocket 1628A – PCIe Gen5 x16 to 4-MCIOx8 NVMe Switch Adapter

The Rocket 1628A PCIe Gen5 NVMe Switch Adapter delivers up to 64GB/s of uncompromised Gen5 transfer bandwidth and can support up to eight U.2/U.3 or E3.S NVMe SSDs via four MCIO ports and cable to SFF-8639 or MCIO/SFF-8654/SFF-1016 UBM and VPP compliant backplane connectivity. The compact, robust LP-MD2 form-factor Adapter is broadly compatible with industry-standard server and workstation chassis.

Key Features:

• 8-Dedicated PCIe 5.0 device channels

• 4x MCIO ports can directly support up to 8x U.2/U.3 or E3.S NVMe SSDs, and as many as 32 via backplane connectivity

• High-Performance 48-Lane Gen5 Switch Architecture: x16 lanes of dedicated upstream & x4 lanes of downstream bandwidth for each device channel

• Delivers 64GB/s of Bandwidth & Real-world Sustained transfer speeds up to 56,000MB/s

• Integrated NVMe Hot-Plug & Hot-Swap Capability

• Advanced PCIe Gen5 Cooling Solution

• Hardware Secure Boot

• Plug & Play Installation for any OS with Native NVMe driver support