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

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.

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.

Easy add-on

Overall great choice, have everything that's needed in the box including screws and brackets, instructions pretty easy to follow, and the NVMe screw works unlike some other options. I'm getting 3200MB/sec on an attached 7000MB/sec drive but that's due to PCIe version 3.0 limitation (note the version here).I'm reducing one star because the thermal strip was already attached to the heatsink and the adhesive was completely off, so now the only thing that holds it together are the rubber bands which probably aren't enough as one of them tore on installation, pretty flimsy.

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.

It was easy to assemble and server saw it instantly without any additional drivers or configurations.

Good product!

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.