AORUS Gen4 AIC Adaptor turns PCIe 4.0 slot into four M.2 slots

Gigabyte shows off its AORUS Gen4 AIC Adaptor, this is a new adaptor card for PCI Express 4.0 systems like the AMD Ryzen 3000 series and the upcoming Ryzen Threadripper 3000 series. This card turns a PCI Express 4.0 slot into four M.2 solid state disk slots.

The card looks like a video card, it has a nice shroud and has an integrated cooling solution. Gigabyte points out that with four PCIe 4.0 2TB SSDs, you could hit bandwidth of up to 15,000MB/s!

Features:

4 x PCIe 4.0/3.0 M.2 Slots

Full PCI Express 4.0 Ready Design

Advanced Thermal Solution for PCIe 4.0 SSD

Easy Software RAID with Single Click to Get Amazing Performance

Custom AORUS Storage Manager

AORUS Gen4 AIC Adaptor equips very advanced thermal solution, including 5.5m pure copper heatsink, 5cm double ball bearing fan, M.2 SSD baseplate and multiple thermal pads to cool down both sides of 4 M.2 high performance SSD with active cooling. Users can choose 3 different fan profile based on hardware configuration to reach perfect balance of high storage performance and low noise.

Gigabyte says you can also use it with PCI Express 3.0 but that will obviously lower the performance. Pricing and availability is unknown.