General Description
Squid PCIe Gen 3 Carrier Board™ for two M.2/NGSFF(NF1) SSD modules.
Hardware Manual, Revision 1.0
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General Description
2.1
Introduction
Squid
PCI Express family is a series of PCI Express Carrier Boards designed for storage
expansion of any desktop computer or embedded appliance.
Squid
family expands a
motherboard’s PCI Express with multiple full/half size MiniPCI Express or multiple
M.2/NGSFF(NF1) PCI Express SSD modules.
The carrier board is a half-height PCIe board, and occupies the space equal to a standard one-
slot wide PCIe board, as defined by the PCIe Specification. It is located in the middle of
motherboard’s PCIe slot, and connects to the motherboard via exchangeable x8 or x4 PCIe
upstream adapters. This unique PCI Express structure (US. Pat #9,996,495) allows for
allocating of multiple PCIe M2/NGSFF(NF1) modules on the top and bottom sides of the
carrier board without violation PCI Express Specification.
This carrier board has two M.2 (M-key) circuits. One circuit are placed on the top
(component) side of the board, and another circuit is placed on the bottom (soldering) side
of the board. Each circuit support any M.2/NGSFF(NF1) PCI express module (M-key)
with a standard length of 30, 42, 60, 80 mm and 110 mm (xx30/xx42/xx60/xx80 and
xx110) and width up to 32 mm.
This board has real-time performance and temperature monitoring via USB port.
2.2
Package Contents
PCI Express Gen 3 Carrier Board for 2 M.2 SSD modules package (depending on the SKU part
number) includes the following parts:
1.
PCI Express Gen 3 Carrier Board for 2 M.2 modules (Figure 1,2,3)
2.
x4 or x8 PCI Express Adapters
3.
Full or half size PCI Express bracket
4.
USB terminal cable SKU-043-37 (optional)
Summary of Contents for Squid SKU-086-32e
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