Wireless Network Card Adapter M.2 NGFF to PCI-E 1X WiFi Network Card Converter,PCI-E M.2/NGFF Card Passive Adapter with Dual-Band 2.4/5G Antenna,for WiFi and Bluetooth Card.(Not Including WiFi

I bought this to connect an m.2 Coral AI card into my PC. My PC is older (circa 2013) and I'd lose two SATA connections if I put the Coral in the motherboard's m.2 slot. So, this expansion card means I can use PCI-e lanes already reserved on my motherboard without losing SATA ports. Since the Coral card doesn't transfer a ton of data, this has worked perfectly without any hiccups. I use the Frigate NVR software and it detected the Coral card immediately with it connected through the expansion card. Works great for what I needed!

This is not going to provide the same throughput as a PCIe device with 4 lanes, but it will provide decent performance and allow the use of an NVME SSD if the only slot available is a PCIe x1 slot. I have used it in an X86 desktop (I7-4770K) and Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 and it is capable of booting either.

I had a stupid project that used this on a GODSHARK Dual M.2 PCIe Adapter, one M.2 being SATA and the other being NVMe. Don't care for NVMe so adapted it to two SATA ports which work great. The drives connected show up as removable storage but that's easily enough ignored

What's up? This is a GOOD CARD for BUMPING UP YOUR SPEED from a SATA 6gb/s to a cheap NVME like the Samsung 980 for $109 right now 2/22/2022 .. these prices only go down, but as SSD's get MORE functional at the $100 price point, we are going to see more interest as the 980 and similar value-play SSD's cross into the under $100/1tb category.I used this SINGLE-LANE card alone with a Z97-based MSI motherboard, and was able to upgrade the BIOS to enable me to boot from an older mSATA-based motherboard that did not support NVME at all into a motherboard that would boot from an NVME-drive mounted through a PCI-slot. I am using my multi-lane slots for video cards, and blackmagic decklink video capture cards that need the high bandwidth. So slurping up extra bandwidth with these cards is "dope" IMO.I recommend this one for places where you only have a single-lane, and I recommend the STARTECH 4x solution if you want to get into the faster-speeds and if you have the 4x-lane available. It's wise to have an extra at these prices, and I have an extra single-lane card for when I just need to get one to work (for example, a friend brings over an NVME and wants me to read it and I want it to be more reliable and faster than over USB connection.If you look at this card, it's about the cheapest card ever produced, it has three diodes, seven capacitors, five resistors. Only fifteen total pieces besides the connectors and the PC-board. This is not bad, just understand that is literally just wiring your NVME directly up to your PCIe-bus, and it's the fastest way to access your NVME. Only the single-lane is holding you back, and for smaller writes, like compiling code, it's going to be fine. For moving around large media files, you may still want to get a 4x-lane card instead of this one if you have the lanes available. But adding multiple of these where you have a MB like I have, you can put plenty of these single-lane cards in and use a software raid solution to get better bandwidth if all your remaining PCI bandwidth is already allocated! This can be a great solution with multiple cards in a video-editing rig, for example, that just needs cheap and plentiful editing space for doing projects.

Easy to install.

They don't tell you where the m.2 standoff screws are but once you figure it out it's quite simple to install

This adapter card comes with a little bonus feature! The mounting bracket has 2 rows of RGB. It would turn your PC into a lighting show in dark.In my case, it just functions as it is. I still need some more time to test its reliability! I am using it on a long-running PC. After it was installed with a WD nvme SSD in my Dell SFF PC and ran for a few days, Win 10 turned unstable! It started crashing and auto restarting 1-2 times every day for an unknown reason cord "Kernel-power"! Not sure if it relates to this piece of new hardware or the new SSD! From OS, all disk features are running fine. So, this is still a question mark to me!!

Make sure you plug in the power cable to the motherboard, works with ho reverb g2v2, wish I knew the software is bad the tracking is bad and games constantly crash making this a bad headset before I bought this but at least now I have some USB ports. Did what I needed it to do, if you're trying to get your ho reverb g2 to get past the WMR setup and are stuck on the "USB 3.0" thing, this will fix your problem. Cheaper than the others and works just as well

It took me a little while to figure out why this wouldn't go in properly in my HP Z840. Eventually I figured out that the locating tab at the top that goes in the notch 90 degrees from where the screw hole would be, was wider than the notch itself. I compared it to the other cards in my system and it was noticably narrower and shorter. Annoyingly, in trying to fit the card, I bent over the locating tab and had to bend that upright with some needle nose pliers, before dremmeling the notch a bit bigger.The other issue I had was that the Intel drive I bought sits about 1.5mm off the PCB when inserted into the connector, so using the two screws closest to the connector was impossible as they just didn't reach. The ones at the back were just about long enough, but the drive is mounted at a very slight angle to the card/adapter as a result. Surely the connector is at a standard height above the bottom of these U.2 drives, so the connector should be sized appropriately - or otherwise there should be a spacer and longer screws provided to mount the drive parallel to the PCB.Once the fitment issues were resolved, the card itself functions perfectly. The drive is recognised and performs really well, and my Z840 boots off of it with no issues. And this card is a fair bit cheaper than comparable adapters, so I'm prepared to cut it some slack, given I was cheaping-out for my home office workstation. For anyone considering it for a more enterprise/corporate environment, if your staff have to f about for an hour getting it to fit, you've wasted more money than you saved, so pay the extra and get something designed a bit better.

The card is advertised to be able to host 2 m.2 cards, this is false. Either slot will work, but not both. When I emailed the seller for support, they basically blew me off. It is advertised as being able to handle 2 m.2 drives, but one of the m.2 drives has to be SATA. Which is really useless for the interface. What is the point of selling a card designed to hold 2 m.2 drives if only one will ever work?

Initially I was sent with a PCIE X 4 instead of PCIE X 1. Due to good support of Amazon, I was able to get replacement. Replacement came with right PCIE X 1, but form factor is totally different. It does not have bracket to mount on PC Case. It is vertical form factor which is not reliably fit without bracket.

I found this item quality and well made, it fits SSD perfectly, looks nice and was delivered very quick.INSTALLATION: I Had to slightly bent the mount metal bracket, to fit my case perfectly. Nothing problematic, a cosmetic issue mainly. Works fine with no problems. I preferred this type of adapter with middle section cut out for better ventilation and cooling, since enterprise SSD do get quite hot. Would buy again if needed. Good price.

The product is advertised to allow you to add additional high speeds NVME m.2. The catch is even though NVMe drives can hit speeds over 2,500MB/s, the limitation is that the PCI-e 3.0 x1 slots can only go up to around 985MB/s.Pretty misleading in terms of how the information was presented. If this was a SATA m.2 expansion card, it would definitely make more sense. If you want to utilise the speed, you will need to slot this card in at least a PCI-e 3.0 x4 slot and a PCI-e expansion card that supports x4.I haven't tried putting this into a x4 or greater slot to see if the expansion card can actually support the speeds. If someone has, reply and let everyone know! I don't have any spare slots besides x1s left.