SABRENT M.2 NVMe SSD to PCIe X16/X8/X4 Adapter Card with Aluminum Heatsink, Easy Install, Supports 2230/2242/2260/2280, Not Compatible with SATA or PCIe x1 (EC-PCIE)

I replaced an older adapter with this one. The old one had the heat sink on the right side (looking from the front of the computer) where it interfered with the card next to it. It was secured with three rubber bands which rotted and allowed the heat sink to fall off onto the motherboard.This one in contrast has the heat sink on the left side, which is where all other cards have their heatsinks/fans, so it doesn't interfere with the card next to it. The heatsink is held on with four screws, so it's not coming loose.The kit comes with different thicknesses of thermal pads. I experimented until I got a combination of pads that caused the heat sink to make firm contact to the M.2 card with the screws tightend down, without bowing the card.Snapped in and worked first time. Very satisfied. Superior product.

Works perfectly. Easy access to get the heatsink on and off. Popped it right into the x4 slot on my little SFF Optiplex. It saw the nvme immediately and I saw the advantages of that format of storage right away.

Works as described. You have to remember how fast SSD's are, even a PCIE 3.0 slot at 16x cannot operate ssd v4.0 cards, ( well it can, but you will only get pcie 3.0 x16 speeds. There is an option to upgrade to pcie 4.0 slot, pick that one if you motherboard has pcie 4.0 and an available pcie 4.0 16x slot. Once inserted, it automatically recognized the drive and tried to boot to the OS that was on it. I had to take it back out and erase the ssd to stop it from trying to boot the OS. It is not recognized in the BIOS because the card does not have any bios chip.

I've bought 3 of these. They work fine. I think the heat sink, despite being impressive, is not very effective. Which is good because on one system there are some small metal capacitors next to one of the PCI-e slots. The heat sink extends to the edge of the card - taking it very close to the MB when inserted. Removing the capacitor was obviously not an option. Fortunately this system has excellent cooling so everything stays in the green. I filled it with 4tb sticks.

Worked immediately. Speeds are fast. A little less than max capability of the SSD I got, but that’s probably just because it’s slotted through pcie and not straight m.2. It is a full enclosure so it takes a little time to install as you have to unscrew 4 screws.

Bought this to give some new life to a Mac Pro 4,1 that I'd flashed the firmware on to 5,1. It's working well as the boot drive for OS X 10.14.6 (Mojave)—just needed to make sure the Mac Pro firmware was updated by the Mojave installer prior to installing the adapter; I used a Samsung 970 EVO plus ssd in the adapter. I only have a few quibbles with the Sabrent adapter…Performance: The 970 EVO plus maxed out for the PCIe 2.0 bus on the Mac Pro; 1480MB/sec write, 1450MBs/sec on writes. Regrettably, I forgot to benchmark when I initially had the adapter-drive combo in my PC for a brief second. Guess I was to intent on getting the Mac Pro rocking the fast ssd booting…and perhaps I can be forgiven for that! ;/Update 1 (Oct 9, 2023) : I really like the adapter—it has blinky led lights on the top so you can tell when the drive is being accessed if you have a view of the mobo. This is really handy when doing CPU/component swaps and you aren't seeing anything on the screen. This feature helped me greatly when doing a complex dual Xeon upgrade to my computer. Thanks, Sabrent for this well designed adapter!My one major quibble is that it was unclear which of the two thermal adhesion pads to use with the 970evo+ ssd. If you get the same drive I got, use the thin pad, not the thick one like I did. I decided to leave the thick on anyways, so as not to waste a pad needlessly, etc, but had to loosen the screws on the adapter drive case plate a bit so would be less stress on the 970evo+ board inside. At least the next time around, I won't make this Sabrent adapter rookie mistake.A minor quibble is the number of screws required to get everything setup properly in the adapter. It takes 5. I'm not a design wiz or anything but seems like there's gotta be a better way to snap the drive case closed without having to resort to four small screws, especially considering that, once the drive is setup inside the case, the thermal paste adhesion strip is basically there to stay.Another minor quibble is the adapter's black case, making it hard to find a place to use a permanent marker notes on the adapter that are readily visible. It would be nice if there was a white strip on the back of the adapter suitable for just penciling that in. As it was, I had to go looking for some white tape. In retrospect, maybe I should have used a labelmaker? Anyways, if you're doing a bunch of these installs at the same time, with different ssds in some of them, it'd be easier if one just had that little white space already handy to mark each adapter with its ssd model number and storage cap, the date installed, etc.Other notes:You need a full 4 lane PCIe slot form factor bus for the card. It also has a little notch on the back for locking into slots that have that tab.

One man's garbage is another man's treasure. Works perfect. Thanks Sabrent.

I have an Asus Rog Maximus Z690 Hero motherboard using it's expansion card for the first PCIe5 drive.The Sabrent card goes into the first x16 slot after removing the graphics card.Found out that CSM no longer works without a graphics card so no legacy booting (which is ok.)Enclosure works great except a full clone of a 9100 Pro to another 9100 pro will overheat.When that occurs Macrium Reflect X throws an error 9 (1392) corrupt file or folder.I believe the source boot sector gets corrupted so be careful if this ever happens.Macrium Rapid Delta Clones that only take a few seconds always work at about 9.5GB/s.I have ordered another enclosure and will try to modify it so can use a large Sabrent Rocket heatsink.Would prefer to use a Samsung 9100 Pro with heatsink, but can't put into the enclosure.Bottom line, if copying a lot of data at full PCIe5 speed the enclosure gets too hot.