Supporting Intel VROC (Virtual RAID on CPU) on X299 motherboards using Skylake-X CPUs, the ASUS Hyper M.2 X16 PCIe Expansion Card holds up to four NVMe M.2 drives and delivers data transfer speeds up to 128Gbps, 22x faster than traditional SATA 3.0.
With Intel® Virtual RAID on CPU (VROC), unused CPU PCle® lanes can be assigned to storage, allowing you to create a bootable RAID array with multiple M.2 SSDs. Unlike motherboard PCH-based RAID, VROC isn't confined by the 32 Gbps DMI bottleneck, so multiple drives can be teamed to provide incredible throughput. Hyper M.2 x16 Card is designed specifically for VROC and features four M.2 slots, providing up to 128 Gbps of bandwidth per card. Hyper M.2 x16 Card is designed specifically for VROC and features four M.2 slots, providing up to 128 Gbps of bandwidth per card.