Key-M to PCIe Adapter Card - M.2 NVMe SSD Converter - Compatible with Desktop PCs/Motherboards - (Supports 2280/2260/2242/2230 Sizes)

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.

My old SSD finally kicked the bucket, and my motherboard doesn't have any M.2 slots, but the Bios does have UEFI support! Bought this, and a compatible M.2 SSD. Golden, right? Not quite.The Windows 10 installer requires either MBR and Legacy (EFI) or GPT and UEFI, but does not allow both! It took some fiddling to get the new SSD formatted (used Ubuntu USB) and find the right Bios settings (had to turn OFF all Legacy features, not just boot) and then had to disconnect all other storage, then the Win10 installer (also USB) was finally satisfied, ran successfully (very fast too!) and it's been running great!

Despite saying "PCI-E 3.0" all over it this works fine with PCIe Gen 4. Which makes sense, it's a passive device. All this card does is bring a PCI lane out to an M.2 plug. And if you have a Gen 4 Motherboard and an open x1 slot, it's well worth it to get a Gen 4 NVMe drive and this card instead of a SATA SSD. A single lane of PCIe Gen 4 is almost three times faster than SATA III. It's a great way to add storage for all those Steam games and random webm's.

Opened case, broke tab, inserted board (after putting on ssd) screwed tab down, works great. No issues so far.Update:Ran crystaldiskmark and ATO disk bench mark Both show only around 200mbs, Motherboard specs shows x 1 slot is pcie 2.0 so should be around 500mbs? My sata ssd 2.5 does show 500mbs. not sure if card adapter or what. For now decreased rating to a 4.Took out and have a usb adapter so put ssd in that and ran same tests. Got 400mbs? Will just use in that. Will keep pcie adapter to maybe use on something else.

Purchased this card to add an NVME drive to a PC. It was easy to install the drive and the card fit quickly into the PCI-e slot. The setup was quick and the new drive is working great. Excellent buy.

Works Great, Plug and play. This worked beautifully. No issues. I Have the PCEIx4 Model and ran out of Slots so I got this an Alternative PCIEx1 slot. Reminder PCIEx1 are slower but still works great and still way faster then HDD/SDD cards so I have no complaints.Running windows 10 AMD Aurous elite x570 with no issues

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!

Worked fine for 9 months. Started causing gremlins after awhile. Definitely on my older Asus M5 MB, Booting from this was not going to happen. Used it for Steam storage. Ill try a different brand now and see.