Mailiya Nvme M.2 PCIe Adapter, PCIe 3.0 x1 SSD Adapter - Support NVMe/AHCI PCIe M.2 SSD 2280, 2260, 2242, 2230, Upgraded M.2 Heatsink(E603)

Pretty simple unit does what it should. Includes a heat sink and mounting "tape" to keep your NVMe cool. As easy to install as any other PCIe card. Great solution if your system isn't natively NVMe capable, or you're out of ports.Overall, I'd give it 4 stars, except...Mine came missing some hardware (screws). The support was *exceptional* as they immediately responded and got a new one on the way quickly - no muss, no fuss, no questions asked.That, bumped it up to 5 stars. Accidents (missing hardware) happens, but having a company stand behind their products and make sure you're taken care of, is stellar.

In my experience, it doesn't show up in Disk Management immediately. I need a bit of configuration to make it appear, but that's just me. Other than that, it works normally.

Had to swap my 4TB Adata XPG S40G with a 1TB in order to use the PCIe X1. Windows 11 will see the 4TB device in device manager but once disk manager tries to use the disk the device will go missing forever. I am keeping the PCIe x1 card and using it with the 1TB NVMe and putting the 4TB NVMe on the Motherboard. Works great after that.

I have it right between cards.Almost unnotisable unless u look in between

This was tested with a Union Memory 42mm 128GB (it's an OEM SSD that Lenovo uses, I think it uses a Toshiba 2-lane controller), and on the other extreme a WD Black SN750 1TB (I did not test with the SN520 shown in the pictures). The rig was a MSI Z370 Carbon w/ a i5-8400, using the integrated graphics. I tested the former because it uses a 2 instead of 4-lane SSD controller.Installation is pretty easy, it has a pretty beefy heatsink w/ 2 very thin thermal pads that you peel and install. You might be able to get away with only 1 if your SSD is on the thicker side (the SN750 I feel only needed 1 layer). Included is also a half-height adapter, if you're putting this in like a Dell Optiplex or something. I haven't seen any temperature abnormalities so the thermal pads are probably working as intended.Oh on a side note, I tested the Union Memory 128GB SSD as a boot drive because it was formerly the boot drive to my test system. It does work if you're trying to use it as a boot device on a device that supports NVMe boot.Overall, it is exactly as you would expect adapting a NVMe SSD down to a single PCIE lane. It's a bit of a niche use, maybe for a B450 board like the Asrock B450M Steel Legend where only 1 out of the 2 m.2 slot supports NVMe, but if you are someone that's looking for something like this, this one works pretty well.

I picked this up to use in my workstation with an x1 slot. I specifically needed an adapter like this one that could connect another NVMe drive into an x1 slot because that is all I had left. Since this is PCI-E 3.0 x1 can only do around 1000MB/sec so any drive put into here would be slowed down (unless it is a AHCI Sata drive?) to 1000MB/sec from 2000+ which is the standard of Gen3 NVMe SSD's. However despite being an x1 card; the benefits of SSD's still apply and that is with the low latency and high 4kQD32 performance or 4KRND performance. Therefore I haven't had any issues using the SSD in this card in my workstation. The cooler that comes with the card is overkill as drives don't typically heat up so much when they are already limited to slower speeds with the x1 interface.I didn't test this with any SATA M.2 card's so I cannot confirm if it actually works with AHCI but it doesn't have a SATA port on it so if it does support AHCI then it must have its own AHCI controller.Overall this card did what I needed it to and I am satisfied, might get a few more in the future for some of my servers that only have free x1 ports.

I ordered this adapter in the hopes of adding a bootable SSD drive to my older ASUS M4A88TD-V motherboard. I installed a WD 550 1T ssd to the adapter and it connected up and worked just fine as a "storage" drive. Unfortunately my motherboard was too out of date to configure in a way so I could boot off the new drive. I tried putting the Clover Bootloader on a USB stick but could never get things to boot properly. I ended up finding a used motherboard that would accept my older CPU and RAM but was new enough to support installation and booting off the WD solid state drive. Bottom line, this adapter won't do miracles if you motherboard and CPU are simply too far out of date but it will perform well if the rest of your system is up to the task. So do a bit or research on your system before investing in this adapter to make sure it will do what you want it to do.

The unit arrived complete and intact, but after mounting my ADATA NVME, the heat sink with only one layer of thermal tape it turened out the screws to fasten the heat sink to the board were too short. Luckily, I had some longer screws of the right diameter and pitch and was able to finish the install.