SMART PCIE-6001, Installation And Use Manual

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20 PCIE-6001 Installation and Use (6806800U73B)
Introduction
Introduction
1.3 Hardware Overview
The PCIE-6001 is a full height, full length PCIe expansion card that acts as additional
storage exclusively for SMART EC MaxCore platforms. The following figure shows the
mechanical layout and dimensions of the PCIE-6001 card. The M.2 socket labels are also
shown on the card.
1.4 Software Overview
Any installed AHCI/NVMe SSDs are compatible with the latest Linux distributions, Windows
8.1 and Server 2012 R2. For more information on how to add native driver support in NVM
Express in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, refer to the Microsoft Support page
for
update to add native driver support .
Figure 1-1 Mechanical Layout
M.2
SOCKET 1
M.2
SOCKET 2
M.2
SOCKET 3
M.2
SOCKET 4
312.00 mm
111.15 mm
Gold Finger Edge Connector 1
M.2 or NVME SSD Connector
(total 4 connectors)
Gold Finger Edge Connector 2