HighPoint has introduced its new SSD7749M2 RAID card, which can house up to 16 M.2 SSDs and install up to 128 TB of flash memory into a typical desktop workstation. The card offers sequential read/write performance of up to 28 GB/s over a PCIe Gen4 x16 interface. These are quite massive performance specifications that come at a rather whopping price point.
HighPoint's SSD7749M2 SSD RAID card relies on the company's PCIe 'x48 lane PCIe Switching Technology,' something that could be a very advanced PCIe switch (or several PCIe) that allocates x16 lanes of upstream bandwidth to connect to the host platform and provides each SSD with x2 lanes of dedicated downstream bandwidth. This configuration offers decent signal integrity, minimizes latency, and enables the SSD7749M2 to achieve impressive data throughput, reaching real-world transfer speeds of up to 28 GB/s, according to HighPoint.
