Storage capacity can be a rather important problem for many people, since the components that we can find currently often limit too much the space we can have, either due to the price at which they are sold or due to the physical limitations of devices. our PC. If we only think about the limitations of a motherboard with a few connections for units SSD M.2We know there are ways to avoid this, like using an expansion card to add more, but until now we haven’t seen any that allow change these components in hot.
When we talk about units SSDcurrently we can think directly of M.2since the SATA standard is used less and less because it offers much lower speeds compared to models that use PCIebut one of the aspects that made them still relevant was the fact that they could be modified on the fly. We can now do this also with M.2 units, and in an extremely simple way, since the new expansion card presented by AEWIN allows us to access them through the rear bays of the case, making their change much easier . .
An expansion card allowing hot-swapping of M.2 SSDs is now a reality
Initially, hot swapping is not intended for regular use on a home computer, mainly because it is intended to be able to replace faulty or other problem storage on a server. But this does not imply that we must strictly use a card created for the servers of one of them, since we can also connect it to a normal computer, as is the case with the two models launched by AEWIN, RS110A and RS118A extension. cards.
The biggest difference that can be found between these two models is how they are connected, since the RS110A has a standard PCIe x8 FHHL form factor while the RS118A has an AEWIN expansion module form factor. Both models have two hot-swappable E1.S trays in which up to two E1.S NVMe SSDs with a maximum height of 9.5mm and 15mm respectively can be installed for each of the two versions we have mentioned .
This offers us the possibility of installing our own server at home, making it much easier to change storage, which turns out to be a perfect solution if we want to install a NAS or another similar type of device for store our data locally and securely. At the same time, as we mentioned, this is an industrial level solution that we are going to see more and more frequently, because the need to have higher capacity storage units, with speed higher and with all the aspects that the previous ones had. As with hot switching, it is absolutely necessary to keep technologies like AI functioning.
