SintechNvme PCIe,M.2(NGFF) M Key SSD to PCI-e X1 Adapter Card,Compatible for Samsung 960 970 Evo

Does what it is supposed to do. I had a few spare m.2s around and an empty pcie 1.0 slot. I tried a WD SN730 & Kioxia KXG40, both read fine. Better speed than a USB adaptor.

UPDATE: 01/28/19 This product is still ticking and keeps the ssd cool no matter the demand placed on it. Glad it has held up for this length of time.This M.2 pcie card is listed for use with the Samsung line of nvme SSD's, BUT, this works right out of the box with a MyDigital BPX 80 nvme SSD. No drivers needed.I had tried another pcie card without a fan that did work, but it did not reduce the temperatures of the drive during use. I almost decided on a pcie card with dual fans to reduce temps, just fans and not an interface for the M.2 drive. The fan only card would have been mounted directly below the M.2 drive where it was located on the motherboard. I am glad I chose to take a chance with this card even though there was no indication that it would work with any other drives than were mentioned.This M.2 drive is the system drive and works just as if it were mounted directly to the motherboard, Z170 chipset. The temperatures have dropped by 13C when idle and 17C when under a heavy load. At the high end it previously ran as high as 90C when under a heavy load. With this card installed in the pcie slot and the fan pulling upwards, the drive's temperature maxed out at 73C. You can locate the fan to either side of the card for the flow you desire. The fan is quite small but does a good job with zero noise. The adjustment knob screws counter clockwise for increased speed, I twisted to full and left it at that. The card has large open areas for air flow.The item shipped without the case bracket attached, long one only, and the fan was attached by one screw only. There were plenty of screws for the installation of the fan, M.2 drive and case bracket. The fan has 4 standoffs w/screws and there was one extra screw to mount the fan to the standoffs. There is also a screw kit for attaching the M.2 drive to the card and it includes a small phillip screw driver.So far, so good. If it holds up over time it will be money well spent.

Bought this because of a narrow space between 2 card that would not fit a normal card.It works...It will also fall out if bumped around.In the end, decided not to use it, but I kept it because it's useful with an extender.

Using this with an Intel B150 motherboard from 2017 in a PCIe X1 slot. I plan on rebuilding the whole system eventually, but with prices where they are right now in 2022, the only thing I needed right away was to expand storage. And I wanted to go with an NVMe SSD that I could easily reuse with a future system.Duplication from the existing SATA SSD (via Paragon Hard Disk Manager) to the Samsung NVMe worked perfectly. Unplugging the SATA SSD and rebooting with the NVMe also worked without tweaks to the BIOS, something I thought I would have to dig around in to find and set correctly. This is with UEFI secure boot on, too.Transfer speed is nowhere near what you would get from a standard NVMe port, but still faster than SATA (and again, this is only an X1 adapter). My only complaint now is the lack of a drive access light, which only works via SATA with my current motherboard. There is probably a way to manually wire this up, but I have yet to invest the time to figure it out.Overall I couldn't be happier with a $10 device that can seriously extend the life of my current system.

I ended up with a small dell desktop from a friend which was running an AMD fx 8800p cpu. The system had onboard graphics, but was running an AMD radeon r7 or r9 360 gpu and i decided the 2tb drive was old. I wanted a good use for this, so my nephews ended up with a refurbished and upgraded dell. I replaced the 2tb with a newer 1tb hdd for more dependability and wanted to go SSD for the main drive, but there was a problem. only one sata cable and header and it was for the rom drive. I decided to keep the drive for them, because they still watch movies on media and went with getting this adaptor and a 256gb nvme ssd from silicon power. the unit and the drive worked flawlessly.The reason I say it won't take sata m.2 is either i read somewhere it won't or I tried the one I have laying around before I converted it to a Sata 2.5 drive for another system after removing that disk from another pc after upgrading to an XPG 500gb nvme m.2 drive there. I could be wrong. however if you are going ssd with this, you want nvme anyway. chances are the drive will outlast the old heap you are upgrading with it, and you will want to use the drive in another system anyway eventually.

Well if for no other reason buy it for the oversized heatsink.I decided to get two because I was running my os from an m.2 slot on the mobo. It seemed like a better idea to have it one the cpu rather than the x299 chipset since I was only using x16 lanes of the 28 available on the 7820x. I don’t see any measurable difference in speed (maybe less latency? idk) but I definitely see lower temperatures. The Corsair force 500 was hitting high 60s and now it stays in the low 50s. The crucial p1 won’t even hit 40. Different drives with about a gb/s sequential read difference but I think the 500 runs hotter because it’s 2 sided and the p1 isn’t. Either way, it’s well worth $16!On a side note, the slot cover doesn’t come attached to the card and the screws go in from the side opposite of the heatsink. Just have to get it secured before you put the heatsink back in place. Seemed like an odd sequence to me.

Bought this to install a 3rd SSD since the two M.2 slots were occupied. Installed in the PCI Express x16 slot that supports PCIe 3.0 x2 mode & it cranked right up.Definitely check your manual because there's a good chance that using one of your available slots will disable something else. In my case, using it disables SATA ports 4&5, so I had to move where my HDD was plugged in.