M.2 NVME to PCIe 3.0 x4 Adapter, M.2 NVME SSD to PCI-e 3.0 x 4 Host Controller Expansion Card, Supports 2280, 2260, 2242, 2230 Solid State Drives

Works really well, and is afordable. Fully utilized Nvme PCIE Gen 3 SSD speeds.Just note that you more than likely will not be able to boot from this directly, and will need to create a boot drive if you intend to do so. I simply used an older thumb drive configured with grub2 and plugged that into my motherboard's 2.0 header with an adapter. There was no need for Linux, simply install grub2 on the thumb drive through windows and configure it to point to your efi partition. (This is assuming you have a running installation and are cloning to the new drive). Also grub2 is a must, you can configure the thumb drive to boot using window's bcdboot, but I found that windows update would break the boot drive doing so.

This adapter works well. Nice and simple, it does the job. There is a light on the back, but its pretty mellow compared to other nvme ssd adapters I've used. I've only had it a couple of months but it seems durable. In experimenting with a build I've installed and removed it at least a dozen times.

no fuss no muss , installed SSD to adapter, installed adapter, poof new drive listed

Installed this board into my 2nd PCIe 3.0 x16 slot with Corsair Force Series MP600 1TB Gen4 PCIe X4 NVMe M.2 SSD. I am running this on a Sabertooth X79 motherboard which is 5yrs old at this point. I was a little worried since this was the first NVMe SSD that I am using outside of a laptop and the fact that my motherboard isn't more recent. To my excitement the drive was detected upon start-up. I am running at Gen 3 speeds but will upgrade my CPU, Motherboard next year where a Gen 4 slot is included on my motherboard.NOTE: The MP600 comes with a heatsink which made attaching a slight challenge due to the included screw used to attach the SDD being short. I still managed to use it. If you are using a NVMe without a heatsink the length of the screw shouldn't be an issue. Worst case you can order a longer screw to use with the board.

First off, my warning: you can't boot from an NVMe drive if your BIOS/motherboard doesn't support it, which is likely to happen if you're like me and you bought this because you don't have any M.2 slots. There's no way for any adapter like this to prevent that.If you're just using this for an additional SSD rather than replacing another storage device, you won't have any issues.If your motherboard has an NVMe M.2 slot already then you won't have any issues.But if your motherboard has no M.2 slots and you want to boot off of the SSD that you'll put into this adapter, it simply isn't possible unless you have another storage device and can figure out how to chain-boot your NVMe SSD from a SATA drive.Don't bother trying to figure out how to chain-boot unless you've at least installed Ubuntu (or another flavor of Linux) before, and preferably only when you're familiar with GRUB.How I did it: Install minimal Ubuntu on a SATA SSD. Put my actual installation on the NVME SSD. Configure BIOS to boot SATA SSD. Boot SATA SSD, run `sudo os-prober`, set the OS on the NVMe drive as the default boot option, and run `sudo update-grub2`. Reboot. Now the computer boots GRUB off of the SATA SSD and then boots the desired OS off of the NVMe drive.

I got an used 512GB NVMe SSD to be used in my laptop. For some reason, the previous owner formatted it in a strange way for linux, my widnows-10 laptop could not recognize SSD after I installed it. I felt there was a good chance that the SSD was good, just needed to be reformatted properly in a pc. So I got this adapter, and it did the trick. I was able to reformat the SSD using diskpart utility of windows-10 on my pc. So this $7 adapter rescued my $50 worth NVMe SSD. Good deal !

Used it on a mini ITX Motherboard Asrock B75M-ITX with Samsung 980 Pro 2TB.The speeds are on the screen - very reasonable. It could be that the motherboard or processor (Celeron g540) is limiting it - Celeron supports only PCIe 2.0 - but it could be also the card.PCIe 2.0 4x should give 2000 MB/s, and as you see max 1600 can be pulled through the card.Still, very good performance, considering the MB limitations.

While it works just fine it cannot be made bootable because the bios in the computer this was for doesn't support booting from it. it would work fine as a secondary drive and it's super fast.

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