M.2 NVMe to PCIe Adapter, Aluminum Heat Sink, Supports 2230/2242/2260/2280 SSDs, PCIe X1 Interface, Compatible with Windows and Mac OS

So, if anyone is wondering, it appears this will work with the Raspberry Pi official CM4 IO board as well as Open Media Vault 6.x. No drivers needed and plug and play. I just popped this in with a WDZ Black 1tb NVMe SSD and OMV appears to see it just fine. Just starting to set it up in the config steps but...if it's being seen by OMV than it should work just fine. Now, I'm not sure how I can speed check it with something like Crystal since OMV runs on a lie Debian. Hopefully, I'll see closer to 400 mb/s xfer rates over say USB3 with OMV on a Raspi 4B.Funny thing is... Really, I don't need more than the 110 mb/s I'm getting on the OMV on the Raspi 4b. Honestly... I just wanted to see it work on the CM4....LOL. I haven't had a reason to play with one yet and finally found one at a retail price. 4gb mem and 16 emmc.

it is 2023 however my 2016 x99 Taichi board continues to battle on. I did some upgrades to it recently, and with storage, I installed a bunch of flash drives to address my photo / video editing needs. I used up every Sata port I could (minus the 2 that are shared with the nvme drives) which means I needed to find a new home for my 2 Sata bluray burners.If you are not familiar with Sata Optical drives, all of these run on Sata1 (1.5gbps) connections. So I didn't want to take up a precious sata3 (6gbps) port to run these drives. In comes the ACTIMED PCI-E card. Very simple to install in one of the x1 PCIe slots I have, and the board has no problems seeing these drives for action.If you are wondering why I would not want to give up one of my on-board Sata3 connections but would give up these, that's easy... This card is a PCI-e 2.0 x1 card. Best possible speed that can be achieved is 500MB/s. If you had 1 Sata3 SSD, that SSD would basically be able to work at its design spec, if you installed 2 SSD's (this is a 2 port card), you would not be able to utilize both SSD's at the same time without running into the bottleneck that is the PCie slot.Seeing that I'm using 2 x Sata1 (1.5gbps) devices, if I were to use both Blurays at the same time and somehow push them to their max speeds, I would use a total bandwidth of 375MB/s... well below the limitations of the PCie Slot.So spending a little bit allows me to keep all of my SSD's running at their optimal speeds.

Couldn't get it to work at first - customer support was awesome! Offered a refund. It turned out my NVMe was bad! Got a replacement SSD and it worked like a charm. No drivers needed in Windows 11. Not as fast as motherboard PCI, but that is to be expected with PCI x1.

Works Flawlessly! I was a little hesitant - My rig is running Windows 11 Which was a nightmare in its self getting to download properly. It was plug and play not driver required! I was limited Sata ports on mobo - Works perfectly Windows 11 4TB Samsung 870 Evo SDD

Most likely a good adapter. Works properly on X570 in PCIe x1 Gen4 mode, does not show any failures.

Performs great. I have always been of the mindset that SSD’s don’t need to be cooled. I stand by this, but after using this heat sink, wow does it help speed it up. I’ve never seen my Samsung 980 download anything this fast. Also kind of cool. The blue LED flashes blue and purple when data is being written to the drive.

Works OK but when computer goes into "Sleep Mode" the drives disconnect, and you will need shutdown the computer and restart. Restart alone does not reconnect the drives. It's best NOT to use "Sleep Mode" with this controller.

This is a great adapter for Gen 3 NVME drives. It works flawlessly and the integrated heat sink keeps the NVME temperature 10C lower than my motherboards secondary M.2 slot heat sink.However please note that it does not work for Gen 4 NVME drives. There are some conflicting answers about this, so I want to be clear as to its limitations.The test hardware I used was an ASUS TUF Gaming X570 Plus motherboard. alternating two Sabrent 1TB Rocket Gen 3 NVME drives, and one Sabrent 1TB Rocket Gen 4 NVME drive, through the secondary motherboard M.2 slot and then then the ACTIMED adapter. The test software I used was CrystalDiskMark 8 and ATTO Disk Benchmark 4.01.0f1 on Windows 10 with all the latest updates.The Gen 3 drive performance was the same in the motherboard M.2 slot and the adapter, but the Gen 4 drive was corrupted during the CrystalDiskMark 8 test. It passed ATTO, but that's because ATTO is very straightforward and doesn't send complex commands at full speed.However CrystalDiskMark 8 really thrashes a disk, and sends a variety of complex commands at full speed, and not only did it stop working after the first read, but Windows Event Viewer recorded countless disk paging errors and warned of data loss when using the ACTIMED adapter.As a final verification I went into my BIOS and limited the ACTIMED adapter slot to PCIe 3.0 speeds, and the Rocket Gen 4 drive then worked flawlessly.So if you have a Gen 3 drive you can't do better than the ACTIMED NVME PCIe 3.0 X4 Adapter. However if you have a Gen 4 drive you will have to find something else, or limit the adapter slot to PCIe 3.0 speeds.