Compliant with PCI Express Specification Revision v4.0
Backwards compatible with PCIe 3.0, 2.0and PCIe1.0
Compliant with PCI Power Management Specification Revision1.2
Fully compliant with Industry standard PCIe3.0 Slot, no-bifurcation dependency or need for specific brand/model of motherboards
Integrated, Intelligent, Next-Gen PCIe 4.0 Switch technology ensures up to PCIe x4 lanes are allocated to each M.2 slot
Supporting transfer rate of 2.5Gb(250MB/s),5Gb(500MB/s), 8Gb(1GB/s) and 16Gb(2GB) per lane
PCI Express interface: x16 lane
Supports NVM Express (NVMe)
Support for 8-Port x4 lane M.2 Key M NVMe SSD device
Supports M.2 SSD modules sizes: 22x80mm
Supports M.2 M key and B+M key with PCIe Protocol
LED read/write indicator
On board with active cooling FAN
M.2 Specification Revision 0.9
Automatic detection of lane configuration on boot-up
All ports support hot-plug, surprise remove
ECRC and Poison bit support
Operating temperature range:0~55°C
native, in-box NVMe driver support for all major OS platforms
Supported operating systems Win10/11, Linux kernel v3.10 or later, FreeBSD 12.1 or later, ESXi 6.7 and later, Mac OS
No driver is required because the driver is transparent to the operating system
Feature table
Product name PCIe 4.0 x16 PEX88048 8-PORT M.2 NVMe Adapter
Bus interface PCI-Epxress 4.0 x16
Number of devices 8 x M.2 NVMe Ports (up to x4 lanes per port)
Data Transfer Rate 16GT/16Gbps per lane
Max Data Transfer Rate 32GB/s
SSD Form factor 2280
Dimensions 312x111/98x20mm
Form Factor Full-Height
Work Temperature +5°C ~ + 55°C,
Relative humidity 5% to 90% non-condensing
Power Typical:21W
Operating Voltage +12V ±8%; 3.3V ±9%
MTBF >5,000,000 hours at 40°C
Supported Operating Systems & Platforms
Windows Windows 11, 10 / Windows Server 2022, 2019 / Microsoft Hyper-V
Linux Linux Kernel v3.10 or later
Mac OS MacOS 10.13 and later
FreeBSD FreeBSD 12.1 and later
VMware ESXi 6.7 and later
System Requirements Mac Platforms:
Apple Mac Pro systems:2012; 5.1, 7.1(2019)
Apple M1 Platform compatible
PC platforms:
Any PC or Motherboard with an industry standard PCIe x16/x8 physical
Slot (Bifurcation is not required)
Cooling Full-Length Anodized Aluminum Heat sink with built-in Low-Noise fans
Package content
1 x PCIe 4.0 x16 PEX88048 8-PORT M.2 NVMe Adapter
1 x Users Manual
8 x Screws
1x Screw driver
8 x heat sink
