What‘s this?
The Alphacool HDX-5 is a combination of a RAID controller card and a massive cooler. It has
two slots for SATA M.2 SSDs and two additional SATA slots, allowing you to set up a RAID 0
or 1 group. The 4x PCIe card also provides a bandwidth of up to 3900 MB/s.
Highlights
1. No more throttling of the SSD due to overheating
2. RAID 0 or 1 possible
3. 4x PCIe card with a bandwidth of around 3900 MB/s
4. Cooler optimally protects your SSD
Product picture:
Alphacool Eisblock HDX-5
Version: 08/2017
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Technical specications
Other information
Technical Data Eisblock HDX-5
Dimension (LxWxH) 135 x 80 x 24 mm
Material Aluminium
PCIe form factor 4x PCIe
Compatibility M.2 2280 SATA SSDs
Max. Bandwidth
3900 MB/s
PCIe Card
Product Article No.
Alphacool
Eisblock HDX-5 11437 1013798 4250197114356 178 x 142 x 41 0,35
Mounting material/Scope of delivery
Scope of delivery Eisblock HDX-5
Cooler 1x Topplate, 1x Backplate
Mounting material Screws, Thermal pads
PCIe card
(RAID Controller Card)
Slot cover 1x
Driver CD 1x
Downloads
Product Images
Eisblock HDX-5
https://www.alphacool.com/download/1013798.zip
Article No.
Aquatuning
EAN Code Dimension PU in mm Weight
in kg
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Article texts
up to 50 words
With the Alphacool HDX-5, you get a RAID controller card together with a massive heatsink for your M.2 SATA
SSD and two conventional SATA drives. The cooler almost entirely prevents throttling of the M.2 SSDs and the
card provides a maximum bandwidth of 3900 MB/s. The optimal solution for your high-end system.
up to 125 words
With the Alphacool HDX-5, you get a RAID controller card together with a massive heatsink for your M.2 SATA
SSD. The card also features two conventional SATA connections. This lets you set up RAID 0 and 1 variants.
The HDX-5 uses a 4x PCIe plug-in card that provides a bandwidth of around 3900 MB/s. That’s almost 600% more
than a conventional SATA connection with around 640 MB/s.
The HDX-5’s massive cooler prevents the M.2 SSDs from decreasing in speed, which generally happens very
quickly during large data transfers due to overheating. When this happens, the SSD’s performance drops to around
10% of its actual capacity. With the HDX-5’s massive cooler, this possibility is almost entirely eliminated.
Version: 08/2017
We assume no responsibility for any typos.
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up to 250 words
With the Alphacool HDX-5, you get a RAID controller card together with a massive heatsink for your M.2 SATA
SSD. The card also features two SATA connections on its end, for connecting your normal SATA drives. This gives
you lots of combination options for setting up your RAID group. You can set up RAID 0 and 1 variants.
So that the connection to the rest of the system doesn’t become a bottleneck, Alphacool uses a 4x PCIe plug-in
card that provides a bandwidth of around 3900 MB/s. That’s almost 600% more than a conventional SATA connection with around 640 MB/s. Even many motherboards only have a 2x PCIe for the M.2 slot, essentially half of the
possible bandwidth of the Alphacool 4x PCIe card.
The HDX-5’s massive cooler prevents the M.2 SSDs from decreasing in speed, which generally happens very
quickly during large data transfers due to overheating. When this happens, the SSD’s performance drops to around
10% of its actual capacity. With the HDX-5’s massive cooler, which covers the length of your entire SSD, this possibility is almost entirely eliminated. Unlike M.2 connections on a motherboard, which are hard to cool due to their
positioning near or underneath the graphics card, the HDX-5 has no such problem.
up to 500 words
With the Alphacool HDX-5, you get a RAID controller card together with a massive heatsink for your M.2 SATA
SSD. The card also features two SATA connections on its end, for connecting your normal SATA drives. This lets
you choose whether you just want to connect two M.2 SATA SSDs together for RAID 0 or 1, or if you want to
connect one M.2 SSD to each hard drive in the SATA slots to make a RAID group, or just use two hard drives
in the normal SATA slots. Alternatively, you could use just the two M.2 SATA slots in a RAID group and use the
normal SATA slots for additional hard drives for your system.
So that the connection to the rest of the system doesn’t become a bottleneck, Alphacool uses a 4x PCIe plug-in
card that provides a bandwidth of around 3900 MB/s. That’s almost 600% more than a conventional SATA connection with around 640 MB/s. Even many motherboards only have a 2x PCIe for the M.2 slot, essentially half of the
possible bandwidth of the Alphacool 4x PCIe card.
The HDX-5’s massive cooler prevents the M.2 SSDs from decreasing in speed, which generally happens very
quickly during large data transfers due to overheating. When this happens, the SSD’s performance drops to around
10% of its actual capacity. With the HDX-5’s massive cooler, which covers the length of your entire SSD, this possibility is almost entirely eliminated. Unlike M.2 connections on a motherboard, which are hard to cool due to their
positioning near or underneath the graphics card, the HDX-5 has no such problem.
Version: 08/2017
We assume no responsibility for any typos.
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