HighPoint Technologies, which specializes in storage solutions, just introduced two adapters that massively expand your system’s storage capacity through a single PCIe slot. According to the company’s press release, the Rocket 1628A and 1528D NVMe Switch Adapters let you directly plug up to eight PCIe devices into one PCIe 5.0 x16 or PCIe 4.0 x16 slot, or up to 32 NVMe drives via a UBM-compliant backplane.
These adapters are primarily designed to give systems with limited space and PCIe/NVMe slots more connectivity options. Aside from accommodating NVMe drives, they’re also designed to work with GPUs, NICs, capture cards, and storage controllers, allowing you to attach all the tools you need, even if your workstation has a limited number of slots. Aside from this, HighPoint’s PCIe switching architecture and flexible lane allocation optimize the connection for all attached devices, splitting the x16 bandwidth into multiple x4 and x8 lanes to avoid bottlenecks.
