News New adapters offer substantial industrial PCIe expansion — HighPoint's Rocket 1628A and 1528D support deploying up to 32 NVMe drives and 8 PCIe dev...

[Admin]

The Rocket 1628A and 1528D use HighPoint's PCIe switching architecture to avoid bottlenecks.

New adapters offer substantial industrial PCIe expansion — HighPoint's Rocket 1628A and 1528D support deploying up to 32 NVMe drives and 8 PCIe dev... : Read more

 

[abufrejoval]

Broadcom PEX 89045 based for those who, like me, like to know these things and dislike that tech sites won't bother to include that info...

Anandtech, I do miss you!

 

[bit_user]

HighPoint's Rocket 1628A and 1528D support deploying up to 32 NVMe drives and 8 PCIe devices in a single slot

Very confusingly worded. Even after I learned what it was trying to say, I still think it's a word salad.

 

[Li Ken-un]

This product has been reported on three times by now, and each time Tom’s Hardware makes it sound like it’s some never-before-seen product. 😂

1. RAID card delivers impressive speeds up to 56 GB/s (April 20, 2024)
2. New PCIe adapters turn your x16 slot into a clown car of GPU and SSD connectivity (April 16, 2025)
3. New adapters offer substantial industrial PCIe expansion — HighPoint's Rocket 1628A and 1528D support deploying up to 32 NVMe drives and 8 PCIe devices in a single slot (today, July 17, 2025)

It’s not like that first announcement was a paper launch either. It was available in May 2024 and I bought one on December 22, 2024.

32 NVMe drives and 8 PCIe devices

That claim about PCIe devices comes with a big asterisk. There are certain PCIe devices that it doesn’t like. I’ve not tried all the possibilities, but it does not recognize devices which themselves contain PCIe bridges (switches).