M.2 NVME to PCIe 3.0 x4 Adapter with Aluminum Heatsink Solution

I flashed the Supermicro X10 server’s BIOS to enable NVME support. I installed an NVME drive into this card and experienced fast speeds and easy setup. Works as expected!

fits nicely, works perfectly, has a bright red LED though if thats an issue for you

I purchased 2 of these adapters for my old Gigabyte UDR3 X58 Desktop PC.They appear to be well made and function as advertised. One thing to note, is the LED for "drive active" is not blindingly bright as with other adapters I have purchased. The brightness is just right.Since the X58 is only PCIe 2.0, I don't think I will ever require the heat sinks since I can only achieve M.2 Nvme SSD speeds of 1800mbs which is half of what PCIe 3.0 is capable.I have only had them installed for a month and have not had any issues at all so far.I would recommend these as an inexpensive solution to add more fast storage in unused PCIe slots.

Works ok so far. Cheap, so not sure how long lol. I have it running something not critical.The LED is bright and green and really annoying with a glass side. Having a light on something like that is kind of meh, so I scraped the LED off with my thumbnail carefully, and the board still works, but no annoying flashing light now. Not sure if it will work on another, but was worth the ten bucks to try.

Good product!

It was easy to assemble and server saw it instantly without any additional drivers or configurations.

This is a great product that comes with a heat conducting thermal pad and a heat sink. It's plug and play works like a charm. Do note that this uses a PCIe x4 so make sure you either have a spare PCIe x16 which is basically the graphic card size or something 1/4th of the size. Most motherboards will have 2 of those and a bunch of PCIe x1. I ended up having to return this because I have the ASRock B450 Steel Legend (don't get this mobo) and the m.2 actually deactivates the second slot of the PCIe x16 which basically rendered this adapter useless. I was trying to upgrade from regular SSD into NVMe. Though I had mobo issues this product does work well and depending on your mobo it should perform as expected. Read and write tests with the WD-Dashboard ran 3000 mbps read and write despite the actual card rating 7300, but it is a Gen3 Mobo only so it's expected. Also there is a red like that blinks that tells that status of the NVMe, if you dont mind the light its great aside from that this is a pretty good product that works as intended.

You can add an nvme drive to your old sata3 pc if BIOS supports it or if it modifiable like some dell pcs