Storage capacity can be a fairly big problem for many people, since the components that we can currently find 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 the devices. our PC. If we think only of the limitations of a motherboard that has a couple of connections for units SSD M.2we know that there are ways to avoid this, such as using an expansion card to add more of these, but until now we had not seen any that allowed change these components in hot.
When we talk about units SSDcurrently we can think directly about the 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 changed hot. We can now also do this with the M.2 units, and in an extremely simple way, since the new expansion card that AEWIN has presented allows us to access them through the rear bays of the box, making the change much easier. of them.
An expansion card that allows hot swapping of M.2 SSDs is now a reality
Initially, hot swapping is not intended for regular use on a home computer, mainly due to the fact that it is intended to be able to replace storage that is defective or has other problems on a server. But it does not imply that we have to strictly use a card created for servers in one of them, since we can also attach it to a normal computer, as is the case with the two models that AEWIN has launched, the RS110A and RS118A expansion cards. .
The biggest difference that we can find between these two models is the way 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 can be installed with a maximum height of 9.5 mm and 15 mm respectively for each of the two versions we have mentioned.
This offers us the ability to set up our own server at home, making it much easier to change the storage, something that turns out to be a perfect solution if we want to set up a NAS or another type of similar device to store our data locally and securely. . At the same time, as we have mentioned, it is an industrial-level solution that we are going to see more and more frequently, since the needs to have storage units of greater capacity, with a higher speed and with all the aspects that the previous ones had As hot switching is, it is absolutely necessary to keep technologies such as AI working.
