M.2 NVME to PCIe 3.0 x4 Adapter with Aluminum Heatsink Solution

Installed with zero issues - showed up in Win11 Disk Manager as an unformatted volume.With a WD Green SN350 2TB QLC, my DiskMark results were:- 1612 MB/s sequential read (8 queues)- 157 MB/s random read (8 queues)- 1383 MB/s sequential write (8 queues)- 95 MB/s random write (8 queues)This is about 25-50% of the speeds reported online for this WD Green drive, so you may see a significant speed sacrifice vs a direct motherboard setup. Still ridiculously fast compared to SATA or older drives, and fine for my needs.

This really is a decent adapter for an M.2 drive. I mean, it's just PCIe to PCIe, hard to go wrong, but it works great.My only real gripe would be the little rubber bands they give you to hold the heat sink onto the SSD. They're not terribly durable, but really you shouldn't be trying to take it off and put it back on. In my case, I ended up having to swap the SSD out a couple times for my project. Probably would have been fine without the heat sink, but whatever.

This is a great product that comes with a heat conducting thermal pad and a heat sink. It's plug and play works like a charm. Do note that this uses a PCIe x4 so make sure you either have a spare PCIe x16 which is basically the graphic card size or something 1/4th of the size. Most motherboards will have 2 of those and a bunch of PCIe x1. I ended up having to return this because I have the ASRock B450 Steel Legend (don't get this mobo) and the m.2 actually deactivates the second slot of the PCIe x16 which basically rendered this adapter useless. I was trying to upgrade from regular SSD into NVMe. Though I had mobo issues this product does work well and depending on your mobo it should perform as expected. Read and write tests with the WD-Dashboard ran 3000 mbps read and write despite the actual card rating 7300, but it is a Gen3 Mobo only so it's expected. Also there is a red like that blinks that tells that status of the NVMe, if you dont mind the light its great aside from that this is a pretty good product that works as intended.

Performance of the card is great and worth the price. Full speed from a PCIe4 x4 SSD. However the heatsink is useless due to the attachment method. The rubber bands were all cut by the metal or the SSD edges while trying to fit them over the whole thing, and then tore apart completely. The bands are very small, and I could tell they wouldn't have applied much pressure anyway after being stretched out enough to fit. The heatsink becomes nothing more than a marketing checkbox since it wouldn't have done much for cooling even with the metal clips that often come with this type, just to make people think they're getting something useful, but with such poor rubber bands it becomes added cost for outright trash. I'd still buy this product again for the fact that it works exactly as needed for adding an M.2 connector. It is unfortunate that few motherboards have slots that will accept the card though.

worked fine in the older computer I installed it in. Nice way to give it some faster storage than the SSD it had.

I flashed the Supermicro X10 server’s BIOS to enable NVME support. I installed an NVME drive into this card and experienced fast speeds and easy setup. Works as expected!

I purchased 2 of these adapters for my old Gigabyte UDR3 X58 Desktop PC.They appear to be well made and function as advertised. One thing to note, is the LED for "drive active" is not blindingly bright as with other adapters I have purchased. The brightness is just right.Since the X58 is only PCIe 2.0, I don't think I will ever require the heat sinks since I can only achieve M.2 Nvme SSD speeds of 1800mbs which is half of what PCIe 3.0 is capable.I have only had them installed for a month and have not had any issues at all so far.I would recommend these as an inexpensive solution to add more fast storage in unused PCIe slots.

Easy add-on