SupaGeek M.2 NVMe SSD to PCIe x4 Adapter Card, Supports M-Key M2 NGFF NVMe SSDs 2280, 2260, 2242, 2230, Upgrades Desktop Solid State Drives

having 2 M.2 drives sometimes is not enough, so I decided to expand and get another, Buying this expansion pcie card was the only option and I have not been disappointed. I do a lot of video editing and having my video files on this drive and my video editing software on another drive really speeds up the process by about 60-70%. This is a must if you need more space or even if you dont have any M.2 slots on your pc. You need min PCIe x4 slot for this to work and the speeds given.* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes[Read]SEQ 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 3491.951 MB/s [ 3330.2 IOPS] < 2400.63 us>SEQ 1MiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 2668.699 MB/s [ 2545.1 IOPS] < 392.69 us>RND 4KiB (Q= 32, T= 1): 640.047 MB/s [ 156261.5 IOPS] < 198.24 us>RND 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 54.500 MB/s [ 13305.7 IOPS] < 75.04 us>[Write]SEQ 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 2595.561 MB/s [ 2475.3 IOPS] < 3224.64 us>SEQ 1MiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 2608.341 MB/s [ 2487.5 IOPS] < 401.56 us>RND 4KiB (Q= 32, T= 1): 445.025 MB/s [ 108648.7 IOPS] < 285.03 us>RND 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 219.692 MB/s [ 53635.7 IOPS] < 18.52 us>Profile: DefaultTest: 1 GiB (x1) [G: 56% (262/466GiB)]Mode: [Admin]Time: Measure 5 sec / Interval 5 secDate: 2022/04/26 12:28:04OS: Windows 11 Professional [10.0 Build 22000] (x64)

I bought a 2TB NVMe drive in the sale and was going to swap out my 500GB drive, but realised this would let me use both. The card is easy to install and the drive worked perfectly. However, as some others have stated, the PC started hanging shortly after reaching the Windows 11 logon screen, then refused to boot at all because it couldn't see the NVMe drive on my motherboard. It appeared quite random and the PC would eventually boot. I changed PCIe slot, but that didn't help. Finally, I put my Windows NVMe drive on the card and the new NVMe drive on the motherboard. Hey presto, it works! I can't fault the card as it is presumably a BIOS issue (my motherboard was manufactured in 2019). NB: I also turned off UEFI for non-bootable drives in the fast start settings, but it didn't help in the original configuration. I'm not switching it on again, in case it stops working!

If you want max performance, do make sure you fit it to a PCIe 3.0 slot. A PCIe 2.0 slot will work but give you much less through put. i.e. 75% less than shown.Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 3113.968 MB/sSequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 3027.207 MB/sRandom Read 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 1497.981 MB/s [ 365718.0 IOPS]Random Write 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 849.477 MB/s [ 207391.8 IOPS]Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 378.060 MB/s [ 92299.8 IOPS]Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 307.712 MB/s [ 75125.0 IOPS]Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 53.658 MB/s [ 13100.1 IOPS]Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 187.810 MB/s [ 45852.1 IOPS]Test : 1024 MiB [C: 41.6% (396.2/953.5 GiB)] (x3) [Interval=5 sec]Date : 2019/09/05 11:34:50OS : Windows 8.1 [6.3 Build 9600] (x64)As to fitment, pretty easy really. Do switch the computer off. At switch ON, the card was recognised without any issues and the drive that was connected to it was ready for immediate use. 24 hours later, no complaints here.

Used to install an M.2 NVMe PCI-e SSD on a 10 year old motherboard. I wanted to improve the windows start-up time and general speed and loading of applications on my PC, as I couldn't justify building a new PC due to the costs and my actual intended use. Therefore I bought a PCI-e M.2 NVMe SSD as it's faster than the SATA version and set it up to boot my operating system. This was easy to install, just insert it into an available PCI-e slot and screw the bracket on, the downside is it doesn't sit perfectly flush when screwed onto my PC case. I managed to get this to boot my windows using a bios mod and bootloader and this has been a very cost effective way to get a performance boost out of PC. Speed test is good as it was able allow the SSD to achieve benchmark speeds near to the advertise maximum speeds advertised for the SSD.

I bought this card to permit me to clone my existing WD Blue NVME M.2 card to another slightly newer, faster model (N550 to N570). I needed the adapter as my motherboard has only 1 M.2 slot on board. I could have gone the long way round, cloning to an intermediate drive then on to the new NVME but this adapter also offers the option of using the older drive as a second NVME drive. (So long as there is a vacant PCIe x4 slot available) That's what I did and it worked perfectly.I used the WD recommended cloning software, Acronis TrueImage, which was very straightforward, immediately recognising both drives. I'm now using the new drive as boot and system drive and the old one as cache for Photo and Video editing programs.

The documentation says this drive doesn't work in a x1 PCie slot. I thought I had an x4 available but I can't use this because of my GPU cooler. I plugged it into the remaining x1 PCIe slot that was available and it works perfectly. Obviously it's limited to SATA speeds, but I just wanted to use my spare drive regardless of performance.

wanted to upgrade an workstation to have modern parts. the mobo did not have a nvme slot. however these are compatible with gen 3 nvme which can fully utilise the 8x lines @ max speed

I put a Crucial P2 1tb nvme into this and once I rebooted my pc it was instantly recognised. I did a crystal disk mark test and you can see the results. Full speed for this drive with no problems. I will definitely buy more of these for older pcs without an nvme slot. Very pleased with the results.I'm running windows 11 with an MSI B660M Pro-A Wifi motherboard.