Specification

Compliant with PCI Express specification Revision 4.0(16GT/s)

Supporting transfer rate of 2.5Gb,5Gb, 8Gb or 16Gb per lane

Bus width: PCIe4.0 x8

Support 2x M.2 2280 NVMe with PCI Express (Gen4 x4) protocol

Support 2x 10G multi-Gigabit network

MDI(Copper) standard IEEE802.3 Ethernet interface up to 10Gb/s

Integrated Marvell Alaska PHY featuring NBASE-T technology

6-speed support of 10G/5G/2.5G/1G/100M/10M

Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) support

Advanced cable diagnostics

Audio Video Bridging (AVB) and PTP/1588 v2 support

LSO, RSS, DCA and header checksum

Wake-on-LAN power management

Jumbo Frames up to 16Kbytes

IPv4/IPv6, IPv6/TCP, and IPv6/UDP checksum offload

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) keepalives support link checking between devices

Feature Table

Product Name PCIe4.0 x8 PEX88024&AQC113C 2N2T Adapter card

Chipsets PEX88024&AQC113C x2

PCIe bus width PCIe Gen4 x8

Downstream port 2x M.2 2280 NVMe and 2x 10G network Port

Size (DxWxH) 187 × 19.35 × 68.9 mm

Form factor Low-profile/High-profile

Transmitting Media RJ45; 10G through CAT-6a Copper or better

5G/2.5G/1000/100/10BASE-Te: Over 100 meters of CAT5e or better

Network Speed 10G/5G/2.5G/1G/100/10M

Network Protocol IEEE802.3an, IEEE802.3bz, IEEE802.3ab, IEEE802.3u and IEEE802.3, IEEE802.3x, IEEE802.3z, IEEE 1588-2008, 802.1as-2011, IEEE802.3az, IEEE802.1Q-2014

Network LED inductor Support

Jumbo Frame 16KB

Heat Dissipation Method Active Fan

Other functions PXE, WoL

Operating Temperature 0~70

Storage Temperature -40~85

Chip Power Consumption 11.5W max

Application Platform NAS, PC, Server

Relative Humidity 0-90% non-condensing

Operating systems Windows: Win10 and Win11 32/64bit

Linux: Linux Kernel 3.10/5.X or later,


Package content

1 x PCIe4.0 x8 PEX88024&AQC113C 2N2T Adapter card

1 x Users Manual

1 x CD

1 x Low profile bracket

Accessories

System Requirements

Microsoft Windows10 and Windows11 32 or 64bit

Linux3.10/5.x or later

Available PCI Express x8/x16 slot


Hardware installation

1. Turn off the computer and unplug the power cord

2. Remove the computer cover and adapter slot cover from the adapter slot.

3. Use a screw driver to open the adapter's heat sink and install two adapted M.2 SSDs into the M.2 slots and lock them in place with screws

3. Insert the adapter edge connector to the slot and secure the bracket to the chassis

4. 4. Recover the computer cover, and then plug in the power cord

5. Power on the computer


Install Drivers

Windows Operating Systems

You must have administrative rights to the operating system to install the drivers.

1.insert the CD driver bound with PCIe4.0 x8 PEX88024&AQC113C 2N2T Adapter card driver into your CD-ROM drive:

2.if the Found New Hardware Wizard screen is displayed, click Cancel

3.Open the location of the driver file and select the driver file according to the system type.

For Windows 32bit

Type AQC113C\AQC113\DRIVER\v3.1.3\Marvell_FastLinQ_Edge_Win_3.1.3\Installer\Marvell_FastLinQ_Edge_x32_ver3.1.3.0

For Windows 64bit

4.Type AQC113C\AQC113\DRIVER\v3.1.3\Marvell_FastLinQ_Edge_Win_3.1.3\Installer\Marvell_FastLinQ_Edge_x64_ver3.1.3.0

5.Double click it

6.Follow the instructions in the install wizard to finish it

Installing Linux Drivers from Source Code

1.Download and expand the base driver tar file.

2.Compile the driver module

3.Install the module using the modprobe command

4.Assign an IP address using the ifconfig command

Support

More information and settings, please refer to the Adapter User Guides or you can contact us.