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

This product is exactly what it should be, a straight forward, properly featured adapter. It even comes with an adequate heatsink and thermal pad to ensure good thermal transfers (this isnt really important, but it is nice to see for situations with inadequate cooling like SFF builds or servers). I have used this with a variety of differing NVME drives, of varying sizes, lanes, and PCIE gens with no problems whatsoever.

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.

works great!

The pc I installed this in didn't have a m.2 slot, so i ordered this for 10 bucks. Putting it together was easy, and it came with a heatsink, which I'd pretty good for only 10 dollars. However, the metal bracket, pcie stand, or whatever else you want to call the metal thing supposed to go on the end, did not fit. Or rather, no screws worked with it, some were too large, some too small. It doesn't matter since it'd only used for reinforcement and the whole adapter and ssd is very lightweight, so it can be supported by the pcie connecter itself. Definitely worth it, although I wished the bracket worked.

I added this and a Crucial P3 Plus to a 10-year-old Gigabyte GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3 motherboard. At first I thought it was great, then I started to notice my SATA SSD seemed to be loading and transferring faster. I loaded up CrystalDiskMark and realized the new NVME SSD was only getting about 200MB/s transfer rates, where my SATA boot drive was hitting 550MB/s. WAY lower than the P3 should've been hitting. I read up a bit on how my motherboard splits its PCIE 3.0 lanes, and printed right on the motherboard I had installed this adapter into a PCIE 3.0 x4 slot. So I this should've been okay. In my x8 slot I had my dual gigabit networking card (onboard LAN died years ago). I removed the network card to try freeing up lanes, but the NVME still only hit 200MB/s. I decided 200MB/s was fine for my networking, so I swapped the two cards. This put the NVME adapter into the x8 slot and network card into the x4 slot (as pictured). This unlocked the full performance. The new CrystalDiskMark jumped to 3,000MB/s! This adapter works great, just be sure you're getting the right number of lanes to the PCIE slot you use. Otherwise you might get stuck with poor throughput.

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.

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.

Installed an Adata 256gb m.2 in this card and then installed the pcie card in my Mac Pro. Instantly worked, after formatting the drive. Works flawlessly. Best cheap pcie m.2 adapter I have used.

Excellent product but neither of the mounts it came with fit the pcie mount. It was slightly off, didn't use it as it was light weight. Apart from that, easy to install, very fast m2 ssd speeds. Recommended.

using this right now in my main PC. works great and gives fast data transfers

Fits perfectly..simple install.Firm fit.

I'm very pleased with this adapter. Comes with both full size/small height pcie brackets. All the screws. Heatsink for the ssd(good for single sided nvme drives). Fit different sizes nvme drives. (not sata based nvme)-keep this in mind. All the screws.