Amfeltec Squid PCIe Gen 4 Carrier Board for Up to 4xM.2 PCIe SSD

Amfeltec Corp. announced that its first PCIe Gen 4 Carrier Board for up to 4xM.2 PCIe SSD modules is in production.

This is the latest addition to the company’s Squid Carrier Board family.

Due to the firm’s patented design, the new carrier board is in the form of a standard one-slot-wide, half-height and half-length board. It has 4xM.2 (M-key) circuits for SSD modules; they are located on both sides of the carrier board (2 circuits on the top (component) side and 2 on the bottom (soldering) side), and can accommodate any M.2 SSD with x4 PCIe Gen 4 interface. (US Pat. 9,996,494; US Pat. 10,664,431)

“Amfeltec is proud to release our latest addition to the Squid family. This carrier board not only supports PCIe Gen 4.0, but its unique and compact design allows it to be used even in 2U servers, in, for example, datacenters,” says Michael Feldman, president and CTO. “Our compact design is one of the main reasons for the Squid carrier boards’ popularity, and many of our customers have explicitly requested a PCIe Gen 4 version. We are also continuing our open-concept design trend: the modules are easily swappable (with just a single screw!), and cooling is still accomplished via the board’s and computer’s native fans.”

All Squid carrier boards can operate on any motherboard and do not rely on PCIe bifurcation.

The upstream connection (from carrier board to motherboard) is done via exchangeable male x16 PCIe Gen 4 adapters (x8 version optional). This allows the carrier board to be inserted into different sizes of PCIe connectors without encountering well-known limitations.

The board also has real-time performance and temperature monitoring capability.

Squid PCIe SSD Carrier Board family includes following:

SKU-086-31	1U PCIe Gen 3 Carrier Board for 1xM.2 SSD module.
SKU-086-32	2U PCIe Gen 3 Carrier Board for 2xM.2 SSD modules.
SKU-086-32e	2U PCIe Gen 3 Carrier Board for 2x M.2 or NGSFF(NF1) SSD modules.
SKU-086-34	2U PCIe Gen 3 Carrier Board for 4xM.2 SSD modules.
SKU-086-36	PCIe Gen 3 Carrier Board for 6xM.2 or NGSFF (NF1) SSD modules.
SKU-086-44	2U PCIe Gen 4 Carrier Board for 4xM.2 SSD modules.