M.2 Nvme to PCIe 3.0 x16 Adapter with Heatsink Solution for M.2 SSD(M Key) 2280/2260/2242/2230(E602)

This is a game changer! Even though they’ve been around for quite sometime! A lot of people do not have the funds to upgrade to a Z370-Z390 era board, and therefore a lot do not have M.2 sockets! But almost all boards have PCIE ports. This makes use of them and gives you the speed your computer is begging for this day in age!Windows 10 is 100% BOOTABLE from this adapter, I’ve installed a 970 Pro NVME that is performing at 3200MBPS read and 2500MBPS write according to crystal disk mark! For reference the same speed as my 970 pro in the actual M.2 port.It will take a variety of m.2 drives, but I obviously used a 2280 form factor with a M key!I also bought ANOTHER one for my daily gaming/benchmark rig, because I have 4 sata SSD’s and one 970pro NVMe drives which render my second m.2 useless, and I wanted one more NVME, this gave me that ability! So if you only have 1 m.2 port, this will give you the ability to install another, in minutes!Overall, awesome product and works flawlessly.

This adapter works well. I had a few NVMe drives so I got a pair of these and they’re pulling 2500/1500Mbps r/w respectively. They only offer 4 lane connection, but that’s what we want anyway.I noticed people asking about drivers. The only driver needed it for the hard drive you’re using if it isn’t native to your operating system. These are pass through devices and do not require any drivers.Reliable and cheap. You can’t go wrong with these.

I initially purchased this two years ago because my Samsung 960 Pro's speeds were coming up short of what was advertised, and I wanted to see if I could boost its performance over my previous motherboard's m.2 socket-3 slot. The CrystalDiskMark tests I ran resulted with each test measuring within 100MB/s of the initial m.2 slot's performance. I've also tested this on a newer x570 motherboard to confirm the same results. Ultimately switching to an x16 adapter ultimately gave me the results I was looking for.Keep in mind that this isn't a bad card at all. If anything, the consistent results lend comfort in knowing that this can achieve speeds on par with previous gen m.2 slots. The bottom line is that if your board doesn't have any m.2 slots then I would definitely recommend getting this adapter. If your board has previous or even Gen4 m.2 slots then purchasing this doesn't make much sense, unless you need to install additional drives. Overall it works well, is easy to install, and is of pretty solid quality.

Works as advertised. Comes in antistatic bag with all hardware for installation (standoffs and screws for the M.2 drive, full-height PCI bracket and half-height PCI bracket included).PCB is clean (black in color as pictured), soldering on SMD capacitors and resistors look decent, has headers for HDD activity light (top right on PCB top in picture - if one desires to run those wires off of this as opposed to motherboard's HDD light headers). Activity LEDs on rear.That is indeed an x4 slot length - it looks small, but it will not fit in a PCI-E x1 slot (it is much longer as it has 3 extra lanes' worth of fingers/contacts). Before purchase, one should ensure that they not only have the actual PCI-E lanes to use this, but an actual slot for installation - one will likely need to use a PCI-E x16 slot.

I don’t write a ton of reviews, but this one needs it. I coupled this with a 1TB Sabrent NVMe drive and installed it into my 2012 built PC with and older motherboard that did not support this type of drive (Asus Sabertooth Z77, with an i7-3770k). It was recognized in windows no problem but who wants this drive to be a secondary drive? Not me! Anyway, after a quick and easy modification to the DXE section of the BIOS and a quick flashback of the motherboard BIOS it worked perfectly at over 3000MB/s as the primary boot drive.There are a few YouTube videos that show you how to add this modification for older motherboards, it’s easy and works!

I bought this so that I could use Samsung Data Migration software to clone a 256 GB M.2 system drive in a new Dell XPS 8930. Worked fine! After installing the Mailiya Adapter with the 970 pro the migration went without a hitch. Then I replaced the existing 256 GB M.2 SSD on the motherboard with the 512 GB 970 pro and the 8930 worked as before but with additional drive space on the C:\ drive. I tried using AOMEI Backupper software but it would only create a 256 GB partition on the 970 pro and so I wasted my time trying using it with an external M.2 enclosure. After a bit of wrangling AOMEI finally agreed to refund my purchase price. For $16 the Mailiya Adapter with the free Samsung software worked much better than the $50 AOMEI Backupper software.

Excellent compatibility on an ASUS X299 platform - to defeat the bottleneck of the DMI 3.0 chipset (onboard M.2 slots). I paired this with a Samsung 960 Pro - which is recognized in BIOS & Windows 10 without additional drivers or configuration changes ('Very Bootable' and running at full speeds (3.5 GB/s reads & 2.0 GB/s writes). Use Crystal Disk Mark 5.0 to check speed (Not Samsung Magician)FYI: the new M.2 drives (chewing gum sticks) are PCIe 3.0 X 4 devices with their own controllers built-in to get around the slow speed of the SATA 3 controllers. Naturally, they should be relocated to the PCIe buses (x4, x8, or x16 slots) for maximum speeds. The motherboard M.2 slots are often shared and bottle-necked through the chipset - which is limited further by the DMI transfer protocol. If your CPU is limited to x16 protocols - then remember to set the BIOS to a (x8 by x8) configuration between this card and the dedicated video (i.e. GTX, Quadro). Remember: if you want max performance - then spend the extra $20 for the PCIe adapter/riser cards - because the motherboard components are usually 'Junk'. Hope this helps.