SABRENT M.2 NVMe SSD to PCIe X16/X8/X4 Adapter Card with Aluminum Heatsink, Easy Install, Supports 2230/2242/2260/2280, Not Compatible with SATA or PCIe x1 (EC-PCIE)

Solid product. I purchased one about 2 years ago, and it has been no problems reliable. And this one appears to be headed the same way. Installed M2 NVMe SDD without issues and used Clonezilla to clone the old SATA SSD onto it using an USB3 <-> SATA adapter and Bob Was Your Uncle.One caveat. The video we found describing how to install the M2 SSD onto this brand PCIe card shows the individual touching electrical contacts without any Static Electricity precautions. Don't do that. Take care not to touch the gold contacts on both the PCIe card and the M2 NVMe SSD. Used in a Dell Precision 5820 Tower (manufactured in 2017) which can recognize and boot off of PCIe connected mass storage devices. Also, for completeness - the Dell 5820 has PCIe 3.? slots and uses the Intel C422 chipset with a Xeon "W" CPU.

Well made heavy duty aluminum enclosure!!! pretty easy to install… just flip top cover, then MAKE SURE you rotate the pin that secure the (M.2 ssd bought separately) all the way so that ssd fits perfect in place then rotate pin back to secure it in place. Now Peel film on sticky tape and close it on top of ssd until it clicks. Done. Now take module and place in an empty PCI slot on comp. Go to disk management, find and name drive, format it and Voila !!!

I own an Asrock B450M Pro4 but in my ignorance I did not realize it only had 1 Ultra M.2 slot, so I was relegated to having one lightning fast NVME drive and one slow one in the secondary slot. Much to my surprise an item like this adapter existed. I slotted it in and it recognized my 2nd WD SN7100 drive with no problem!! 100% pleased with this!

I have an Asus Rog Maximus Z690 Hero motherboard using it's expansion card for the first PCIe5 drive.The Sabrent card goes into the first x16 slot after removing the graphics card.Found out that CSM no longer works without a graphics card so no legacy booting (which is ok.)Enclosure works great except a full clone of a 9100 Pro to another 9100 pro will overheat.When that occurs Macrium Reflect X throws an error 9 (1392) corrupt file or folder.I believe the source boot sector gets corrupted so be careful if this ever happens.Macrium Rapid Delta Clones that only take a few seconds always work at about 9.5GB/s.I have ordered another enclosure and will try to modify it so can use a large Sabrent Rocket heatsink.Would prefer to use a Samsung 9100 Pro with heatsink, but can't put into the enclosure.Bottom line, if copying a lot of data at full PCIe5 speed the enclosure gets too hot.

Great card, but the instructions ghosted me on the final step.Installed this little beast to give my old PC a much-needed kick in the PCIe lanes, and wow it's like giving a Vespa rocket fuel. It does exactly what it promises: makes your NVMe SSD feel like it was born to be there, nestled into your motherboard like it’s always belonged.BUT (and this is a lighthearted “but”), the instructions were about as helpful as a GPS that only gets you 95% of the way to your destination and then says, “You got this.” Nowhere did it mention putting the cover back on. You know, the part that protects your very expensive, very fast storage from flailing around like a toddler on espresso.Also included were these mysterious little thermal padding strips (thermal pads! That’s the word!) which I, a humble user with no mind-reading ability, had to Google to figure out. At first, I thought they were futuristic chewing gum or abstract art. Spoiler: they go between the drive and the heatsink. Not between your stress and sanity.In the end, once I figured it out (read: watched YouTube and got gently roasted by Linus Tech Tips in my imagination), everything worked perfectly. It’s solid, sleek, and fast. Just be prepared to finish the installation like a puzzle with the last piece hiding under the couch.Would buy again. Would just also like to have a small chat with the instruction writer. Preferably over tea.

Good product, it brings multiple thermal pads for when you install your nvme SSD inside and when I plugged it in to my motherboard it got recognized immediately after turning on my PC with no issues and at very good speeds.

Great! Easy to assemble. Came with a lot of thermal pads strangely. No complaints though! No need to set anything up, they should just work. However if it's a new drive, you must make it recognizable, but it has nothing to do with these Pcie adaptors. 😊

Already had my two M.2 slots filled, so this was the best best thing to add another drive. Got basically all of the advertised speeds from my new 990 Evo, so can't complain about performance of the adapter at all.What I will address is the lack of quality instructions. They were fairly limited and not intuitive. The thermal pads are a nice inclusion, but it doesn't have any sort of recommendation for which ones to use, how to use them, etc. Experienced PC builders can figure it out easily, but newer ones not so much.Second is the mounting/retaining screw. I saw another review suggesting theirs was missing, and that's not the case here; it's just not intuitive at all based on the instructions. The screw is located on the underside of the card. The brass colored retaining mount has a notch in it that the SSD rests in. So you have to remove the screw first, install the SSD and lower it into place, insert the brass mount and make sure the SSD is in the notch, then put the screw back underneath to secure it in place. It won't be perfectly snug and tight, but it's how this will mount. The instructions don't make this clear and it can be very confusing.Overall I am thoroughly appreciative of the product and what it did for my build, but its instructions need added clarity.