ASUS Announces All X99 and Z97 Motherboards Support NVM Express Devices

ASUS today announced that it is the world’s first motherboard brand to support all NVM Express^™(NVMe) storage devices via a simple UEFI BIOS update and optional ASUS Hyper Kit expansion card.

The free UEFI BIOS update enable all ASUS X99 and Z97 motherboards to be compatible with the latest NVMestorage devices, including those with PCI Express^® (PCIe^®) and M.2 (PCIe) interfaces.All ASUS X99 motherboards are also compatible with the latest 2.5-inch NVMe SFF-8639 solid-state drives (SSDs), via the exclusive ASUS Hyper Kit expansion card — for ultimate data-transfer bandwidth up to 32Gbit/s.

NVM Express: a new storage architecture that upgrades the popular Advanced Host Controller Interface (ACHI) standard. The new technology eliminates the bottlenecks that constrain the performance of the newest SSD storage devices and improves power-efficiency, driving performance to new extremes and reducing running costs.

Once upgraded, all ASUS X99 and Z97 motherboards offer full support for both PCIe and M.2NVMe storage devices. With the optional ASUS Hyper Kit expansion card, owners of ASUS X99 motherboards are free to attach 2.5-inchNVMe storage devices via the SFF-8639 (Mini-SAS HD) connector provided by Hyper Kit. ASUS Hyper Kit can be also purchased separately.

AVAILABILITY

UEFI BIOS updates for all ASUS X99 and Z97 motherboards are available now.