10GBE + 2x M.2 on a single card?

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Deci

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Dual M.2 2280 PCIe SSD & single-port 10GbE expansion card

qnap have decided this needs to exist so they can use a single slot in their nas units to provide both SSD drives for caching and 10GBE networking. its only got a 4x connector so performance has to be limited somewhere and i cant see any info about how they are doing the pci-e or what controllers they are using but at 27 seconds in the below clip there is a shot with the heatsink removed (unfortunately he left the thermal pad on the network chip and the lighting is done so you cant read whats on the main chip that handles pci-e).

 

Rand__

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Nice. Not sure the specs are correct yet , listed as PCIe2 on the webpage... I can't imagine that.