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The Sonnet M.2 2×4 low profile PCIe card fits the PCIe slots available on the Mac Pro into two M.2 NVMe solid-state drives.
The low-profile x8 adapter fits in the narrowest PCIe slot, making it ideal for Mac Pro accessible logic boards.
Many systems have an interface for PCIe expansion slots, but do not have a slot for natively installing an M.2 SSD. With the new Sonnet card, users can connect the dual SSDs installed in their system with a single cable and attach them to the external GPU case of Thunderbolt 3 and USB 4 Mac models.
With a wide 16-lane PCIe 3.0 bridge chip on the card, Mac Pro can deliver up to 3400MB / s on a single SSD. With a RAID 0 set, you can combine two SSDs to achieve data transfer speeds of up to 6600MB / sec on the same Mac Pro. Both M.2 slots allow users to add up to 16TB of storage to their workstation.
This card supports all RAID 0, RAID 1, and JBOD setups. This card also supports booting from a connected SSD to macOS. It is NVMe compliant and does not require any driver intervention.
The new Sonnet M.22×4 low profile PCIe card will be available from the last week of June. It’s available from Sonnet’s official website for $ 199.99.