SintechM.2 NVME Extender,NGFF M-Key PCIe SSD Extention Card with Anti-electromagnetic Foiled Cable 20CMS (Silver Cable)

Very simple device. The connector for the devices m.2 is break away so you can get the right size for your connector.The ribbon is flexible enough that it can bend over on itsself making running the line very simple.and m.2 carrier is a set size and can carry up to 2280.Steam deck uses a 2230 only so break the board at the last run, works great...so now my steam deck has a 2280 m.2 attached.i would recommend this.

used to extent my M.2 PCI-E Gen 3 X16 port from the back of an MSI MPG B550I GAMING EDGE WIFI to the front for easy access in my NAS (i also plugged an M.2 to SATA x5 adaptor in to it) and it just worked no config issues in bios or windows. now everything is on the top where i can access it.

I bought this in order to plug into a Waveshare base board to support a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. I want to attach a multi-SATA port M.2 card in this setup, but neither M.2 SATA card I have will fit in the Waveshare base board M.2 slot, because they have components underneath, and hence don't flatten down and screw into place.This extender seems to work fine. The piece that attaches into the existing M.2 slot can be cut down to size - there is a shorter Sintech model on Amazon that would probably be a better bet for a Waveshare base board. You then plug your M.2 card into the extension board.I tried both M.2 SATA cards (one an ASM1166 based and the other JMB58x based. Both work, although the ASM1166 card doesn't seem to seat perfectly in the Sintech - it sometimes makes contact and sometimes it doesn't. I suspect this is a combination of the ASM1166 card having too much space without contacts at the plug end, and the Sintech not having long enough contacts in its socket (hence docking the Sintech a star). I will probably file/sand down the end of the ASM1166 board to get a better connection, as this board has 6 SATA ports compared with the 5xSAYA JMB58x board.I'm only using HDDs with these SATA cards, so the speeds are not immense - I'm getting about 1Gbps write speeds which is around what I'd expect.

Enabled me to clone the Dell 256GB OS drive to a Samsung 1TB M.2 NVME card which is a huge saving on replacing the dell card to 1 TB. Benchmark shows new OS drive is even faster than the Dell M.2 NVME so no data loss with this well made and shielded extender.

Tested before and after direct in m.2 and with ribbon cable. Due to my m.2 location, it was getting very hot (>70 degrees). The cable meant the drive was in fresh air and therefore actually increased my speeds from 2900 to 3400 mbps according to Samsung wizard, on a Samsung 980 PCI 3.0.

This system would be worth 5 stars if it supported non 2280 SSDs.I cannot see any way to move the standoff without breaking it!

Now I can swap out games or whatever system I want quickly. Stupid laptop won't boot from usb c so this was a great alternative.