Product Overview:

As a professional storage interface conversion solution, this product focuses on achieving efficient conversion between NGFF (M.2) KEY-M and SFF-8639 (U.2) interfaces. With its excellent compatibility, outstanding heat dissipation design, and exquisite manufacturing process, it aims to provide users with a reliable and high-performance way to fully tap into the potential of NVME hard drives and meet the stringent requirements for large capacity and high-speed storage in professional fields such as personal high-end computer users and data centers. Whether it is complex data processing tasks or professional application scenarios that require extremely high storage speed and stability, this adapter can optimize and upgrade storage systems.

U.2 ( SFF-8639)
Supports SATA,SAS,and PCIe x4 or two x2
PCIe data,reference clock,and side band

Product Features:

1. Excellent hard drive compatibility: The NGFF (M.2) KEY-M slot has been carefully designed and optimized to have excellent compatibility, accurately adapting to four common sizes of hard drives that support the NVME protocol: 2230, 2242, 2260, and 2280. The slot adopts high-precision mold manufacturing technology to ensure extremely small dimensional tolerances and a tight and stable connection with the hard drive. Its circuit design follows strict electrical specifications, using high-quality conductive materials as contact points and undergoing special gold plating treatment to effectively reduce contact resistance, ensuring the stability and reliability of data transmission. This allows various brands and models of hard drives that meet specifications to run stably in this slot, providing users with a wide range of hard drive selection space and meeting diverse storage capacity requirements.

2. High speed U.2 interface performance: The SFF-8639 (U.2) interface output by the product is tailored specifically for the NVME protocol, and compared to traditional SATA interfaces, it has significant advantages in data transmission speed and response latency. This interface is based on advanced PCIe bus technology, which can fully utilize the high-speed read and write performance of NVME hard drives, achieving a theoretical transfer rate of up to 32Gbps, providing users with a lightning fast data transfer experience, greatly reducing the waiting time for data read and write. Whether it is large-scale data batch transfer or application loading and running with extremely high real-time requirements, it can easily cope and meet the urgent demand for high-speed storage in modern data intensive application scenarios.

3. Efficient heat dissipation metal aluminum shell: The external design adopts a heat dissipation metal aluminum shell, which not only highlights high-end quality in appearance, but also provides strong guarantee for the stable operation of the product in function. The aluminum casing has good thermal conductivity, which can quickly dissipate the heat generated by the hard drive during operation, effectively avoiding problems such as performance degradation, data loss, and even hardware damage caused by overheating. Its unique heat dissipation fin structure and large-area heat dissipation surface design have undergone rigorous thermal simulation and optimization, ensuring good heat dissipation under various workloads, extending the service life of the hard drive, and providing a stable and reliable operating environment for long-term, high-intensity data storage and reading tasks.

4.Exquisite manufacturing craftsmanship and quality assurance: In the manufacturing process, we strictly follow industry high standards, select high-quality electronic components and advanced production techniques. Each solder joint is finely processed to ensure the reliability of the circuit connection; Each interface undergoes rigorous plug and play testing to ensure its durability and stability; Every component undergoes strict quality inspection to prevent defective products from entering the market. This persistent pursuit of quality enables products to maintain stable performance over long-term use, providing users with a long-lasting and reliable user experience, reducing downtime and data loss risks caused by hardware failures.

Product Slot Introduction:

NGFF (M.2) KEY-M slot: located at one end of the expansion card adapter, manufactured using high-precision processing technology to ensure precise matching with NVME hard drives. The layout of the contact points inside the slot is reasonable, which can achieve a tight and stable electrical connection with the hard disk's golden fingers, providing a reliable physical foundation for high-speed data transmission. At the same time, the slot is equipped with a sturdy fixing structure around it, using a special buckle design to firmly fix the hard drive, preventing it from loosening or shifting due to vibration or collision during use, ensuring the stability and safety of the hard drive during high-speed reading and writing processes.

SFF-8639 (U.2) interface: located at the other end of the expansion card adapter, it serves as a critical interface for connecting with external devices and is designed and manufactured in accordance with strict SFF-8639 standard specifications. This interface adopts a specific pin arrangement and electrical characteristics, optimized specifically for data transmission of NVME protocol, and can achieve high-speed and stable signal transmission. The interface shell is made of high-strength metal material with good shielding performance, which can effectively reduce the impact of external electromagnetic interference on data transmission, ensure the integrity and accuracy of data, and provide users with high-quality data transmission services.

Transmission advantages:

1. Full utilization of NVME protocol: Due to the perfect combination of SFF-8639 (U.2) interface and NVME hard drive, the advantages of NVME protocol can be fully utilized. The NVME protocol achieves higher performance improvement compared to traditional SATA protocol by optimizing instruction queues, reducing CPU usage, and improving data transmission parallelism. In practical applications, whether it is large-scale database queries, complex 3D modeling rendering, or editing and playing high-definition videos, it can significantly reduce data transmission latency, improve the overall response speed of the system, and enable users to perform various data intensive operations more smoothly, fully experiencing the efficient workflow and excellent user experience brought by high-speed storage.

2. High speed and stable data transmission: Based on the PCIe bus SFF-8639 (U.2) interface, it has strong bandwidth support and can achieve theoretical transmission rates of up to 32Gbps. In the actual data transmission process, it can easily cope with the fast copying and backup of a large number of files, as well as the high-speed read and write requirements of real-time data. For example, when transmitting 4K or even 8K high-definition video materials, data migration can be completed at an extremely fast speed, greatly reducing the waiting time during video editing; In the scenario of massive data storage and reading in data centers, it can efficiently process a large number of concurrent data requests from users, ensure fast and accurate data transmission, improve the overall operational efficiency and service quality of the data center, and provide users with stable, reliable, and high-speed data transmission guarantees.

Usage:

1. Install the hard drive: First, confirm that the hard drive in hand is an NGFF (M.2) KEY-M hard drive that supports NVME protocol and meets the specifications of 2230, 2242, 2260, and 2280. Carefully align the golden fingers of the hard drive with the NGFF (M.2) KEY-M slot on the expansion card adapter, and insert the hard drive into the slot smoothly and slowly until it is fully inserted and securely fastened by the slot's retaining clip. During the insertion process, be careful to avoid excessive force to prevent damage to the hard drive and slot, and ensure that there are no signs of looseness after the hard drive is installed in place.

2. Connect the device: After successfully installing the hard drive, connect the SFF-8639 (U.2) interface of the expansion card adapter to the corresponding interface on the motherboard of the device that supports this interface. When connecting, make sure the direction of the interface is correct. Gently insert the adapter interface into the motherboard interface, and then press it evenly until the interface is fully inserted and tightly fitted to avoid poor contact. For some motherboard interfaces that require additional fixation, screws or buckles should be used to firmly fix the adapter according to the design requirements of the motherboard, ensuring that the interface will not loosen due to vibration during device operation.

3.System identification and configuration: After completing the hardware connection, start the device. The system will automatically detect the connected hard drive during the boot process, and users can identify and initialize the newly connected hard drive in the disk management tool of the operating system. Depending on the operating system, partitioning, formatting, and other operations may be necessary to set the hard drive to a usable state. In the Windows system, users can perform corresponding operations through the "Disk Management" tool; In Linux systems, command-line tools such as "fdisk" and "mkfs" can be used to partition and format hard drives. After completing these basic configurations, users can store and read data on the hard drive just like using a regular hard drive, embarking on an efficient storage experience journey.

Applicable scenarios:

1. Data Center: In the large-scale storage architecture of a data center, it is necessary to handle massive amounts of user data, server logs, and various business data. This product can connect high-performance NVME hard drives to servers through the U.2 interface, fully utilizing the high-speed read-write performance of NVME hard drives and meeting the strict requirements of data centers for high bandwidth and low latency storage devices. When dealing with a large amount of concurrent read and write requests during peak hours, it can ensure fast processing and response of data, improve the overall service efficiency and performance stability of the data center, provide strong support for various online services, cloud computing applications, and enterprise level data storage, and ensure the efficient and stable operation of the data center.

2. High performance computing: In the field of scientific research, such as numerical simulation calculations in astronomy, physics, biology, as well as model training and inference processes in artificial intelligence, deep learning, and other fields, it is necessary to frequently read and write large amounts of data. The high-speed NVME hard drive and U.2 interface supported by this product have the ability to significantly reduce data read and write time, accelerate the completion speed of computing tasks, and improve the utilization of computing resources. For example, in large-scale gene sequencing data processing, it is possible to quickly load and store massive amounts of gene data, accelerating the process of data analysis; During the training process of deep learning models, it is possible to provide the GPU with the required data in a timely manner, improve training efficiency, and provide an efficient storage foundation for scientific research innovation and technological breakthroughs.

3. Video editing and production: The video editing industry has extremely high performance requirements for storage devices, requiring fast reading and writing of large amounts of high-definition video materials. This product can meet the urgent demand of video editors for high-speed storage, enabling them to quickly access and store video data during video editing, special effects addition, rendering and output operations, greatly reducing waiting time and improving work efficiency. Whether dealing with 4K or 8K ultra high definition video projects, it can be easily handled, ensuring the smoothness and efficiency of the video editing process, allowing video editors to focus more on creativity and content creation, providing professional storage solutions for fields such as film and television production, advertising design, and new media content creation.

4. Enterprise level storage: In enterprise level applications such as database management, file servers, ERP systems, etc., a large amount of critical business data needs to be stored, which requires high reliability, performance, and capacity of storage devices. This product can integrate NVME hard drives into enterprise storage systems and achieve high-speed data transmission through the U.2 interface, meeting the needs of enterprises for fast data reading, writing, and storage in daily operations. At the same time, its excellent heat dissipation design and stable quality assurance can ensure stable operation in long-term, high-intensity working environments, reduce the risk of business interruption caused by storage device failures, and provide reliable storage support for the digital transformation and business development of enterprises.