SABRENT M.2 SSD NVMe to PCIe Adapter with Aluminum Heatsink and Thermal Pad, for SSDs up to 16TB, M.2 NVMe to PCI-E converter 3.0 X4 X8 X16 Card (EC-PCIE)

Great product, all screws and heatssink stuff came with it. You only need to check your motherboard to ensure that you have a spare 16 PCI slot. Installed and it just worked on my AMD - marvellous. I upgraded my NVME memory to 4TB, and put the old 1TB in this card and in my spave PCI slot. SO fast having the OS (Windows 10) on an NVMe card.

We recently got some Motherboards on sale that were missing the M.2 slot. Not wanting to have to revert to slower SATA SSD's I ordered two of these.They take about 10 minutes to install properly. You get a little screwdriver included to remove the heatsink, and an array of thermal pads to use depending on the thickness of your SSD.I've now bought a total of 4 of these and they have all worked flawlessly. The SSD's are detected immediately without requiring any additional drivers, and performance seems just as good as if they were installed directly onto the motherboard.Great value for money, allowing older motherboards to use newer storage technology.

Excellent bit of kit

For the price this is well worth it. Sabrent is a company whose drives I've used before so seeing this from them was a no-brainer. My motherboard has two NVMe slots and I wanted to add a third drive. This little contraption does the job. The build quality is surprisingly good for the price, it doesn't feel cheap at all. In terms of installation it's a bit fiddly but okay if you follow the instructions. It's been running happily since the day I bought it and no problems as yet.

The build quality is superb. so very simple to setup. everything aligns perfectly and the heat sink is decent. They include a thermal pad, which depending on the M.2 drive that you use, can vary the fit between firm and a bit of a struggle for reassembly. in the end, I used the Netac 700 2TB, which doesn't have too much circuitry bulge. it was a perfect fit, a great drive and runs lightening fast.I can see there are some negative comments here from people who have had genuine issues. I can only assume that Sabrent have improved the design, as i was so impressed with the build quality.Like all PC peripherals, you have to be aware of the added heat, and improve your case cooling if required. Personally, i have a gaming rig with some 5 Cooler Master MF140's plus a 360 water cooler for my CPU, so the added heat made zero difference for me. but it is something to bear in mind.I was warned that using the empty slot would have a speed impact on my graphics card. This has not proven to be the case, as i still benchmark the same, except now i have 2 extra hard drives. giving my system 6 NVMe M.2's now. I did a lot of readin, and where performance does drop, the amount is negligable. Personnally, I am fortunate enough to have a very powerful Asus Rog Strix z790f motherboard. Which i think is the reason why I am not seeing a performance drop. So again, you need to be aware that for older boards, you might have a small drop in performance from your graphics card.I wouldn't hesitate to recommend these adaptors to my family and friends, as they are a great way to use an unused PCIe slot.

My use-case is admittedly rather niche, so I was surprised to find that this card worked perfectly for it! I've been running proxmox on an ex-enterprise poweredge r530 server as my homelab project, and I've been using all of the drive bays as NAS storage. Previously I'd repurposes the CD tray as the OS boot, but I needed more capacity for actual VM storage, and I was really pleased that this pcie card worked plug-and-play and let me add NVME storage for my VM images which I spin up and down as I learn new things. The access speed is far better than the circa 300mb/s that the onboard cdrom sata port seemed limited too also.

I've purchased three of these from this vendor over the past 24 months, no issues, nice little package including a tiny screwdriver and three thermal pads.

I bought as a backup to my Windows ssd. Without the heatsink whilst writing to the disk, I was getting Temperatures of 75 oC! But with the heatsink fitted it topped at a max of 55 so we'll within an acceptable temperature for my SSD. At normal it runs a around 25 - 35 oC. I have it disabled in my operating system during normal use and will enable it and just use to make a complete backup every few months of my Windows installation. It's a good quality solid product. Installation of the heatsink is a bit fiddly but if you take your time, it'll be worth it. There is three heatpads in the kit... two thin ones and a thick one. The thickest one was too tight for my SSD so I used two thin ones. It certainly cooled down my SSD quite considerably. A good quality product at a reasonable price 👌