MSI has revealed details about its new product. It is called M.2 Expander-Z, and is a PCIe 5.0 expansion card for installing an SSD.
What is important is the presence of only one slot for installing an M.2 drive. Usually, such expansion cards allow you to install from two to four SSDs and make it possible to combine them into RAID arrays.
In the case of MSI M.2 Expander-Z, the purpose is different. Such a board is needed to use more SSDs when all the M.2 slots on the board itself are already occupied. MSI talks about data transfer rates up to 128 GB / s, but this is just the limit for PCIe 5.0. The actual speed is not yet known, but, for example, the new Phison controllers will support speeds up to 14 Gbps.
Currently, PCIe 5.0 support is only available on the Intel Z690 platform and Alder Lake processors, which will start shipping on November 4. More importantly, using such an MSI board will automatically reduce the number of available PCIe 5.0 lanes for the graphics card, since Alder Lake processors only have 16 PCIe 5.0 lanes. True, there are still no video cards with such an interface on the market.
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