GLOTRENDS PA09-X1 M.2 NVMe to PCIe X1 Adapter for 2230/2242/2260/2280 M.2 NVMe SSD, PCIe X1 Installation

I give this 5 stars for doing what it is intended to do, which is to provide a way of connecting an M.2 NVME to a motherboard that has no dedicated NVME socket available. Installation is very easy and it can be fitted to low profile cases as well as standard size. The board has no additional circuitry other than an LED that illuminates to indicate access. However, it only has one PCIe channel so the data throughput is only marginally better than a good SATA SSD. If you are using this on an older motherboard that does not have an NVME slot/socket, then the BIOS will probably not allow it to be used as a boot drive or access it before you get into the operating system e.g. MS Windows. As such, it has limited use. Having discovered the above, I eventually decided to replace the motherboard, an old LGA1155, with a newer motherboard with NVME support built into the motherboard. The new motherboard and Gen4 NVME has made my aging Intel i7 2nd gen PC boot into Windows 10 in just a few seconds. If you want to use this adapter to just add some additional storage then it may be OK for you. If you want to use your NVME to operate as the Boot disk then this probably won't work and you will need to buy a SATA drive. Note that there are no SATA adaptors to convert M.2 NVME to SATA (at a sensible price), and SATA is slower than just one PCIe channel in any case. A native NVME socket will have 4 PCIe channels and will thus be a lot faster than SATA.

This is probably quite a niche item but I think this is the perfect one for my use case. I didn't have any other slots and didn't really want to buy an SATA SSD. This allowed me to buy a good spec, 4tb NVME M.2 SSD and use it in my spare PCI slot. The speeds are slow - but I use it for archiving large games that I only occasionally play or it is perfect for playing older games that don't need high speeds. If I ever upgrade my PC, the M.2. SSD I've purchased can be reused at run at the speeds it was intended to.

Superb little adapter that let me use an NVME SSD drive i had lying about to upgrade an older PC. Came with different back plates to fit STD and SFF chassis, and simple to swap. didn't test read/write speeds, but PC works nicely

Works fine only downfall is it sits right under gpu making it work harder may put some strain on the gpu other then that runs great and is very good for price

Neat little PCIe board that lets you add any NVMe module to a PC with a spare PCIe slot. works well fits snugly. easy to install and seems to provide high speed access to the NVMe module.

Works fine needed to install since I put a network card in and wouldn't work with 2 M2 SSD installed on b550 mb. Installed and moved drive no issues still dual booting ok and Linux was installed on the M2 I moved

I bought this particular card as my motherboard only had one NVME slot and this was already filled with the OS, and I had one PCIe 3 x 1 slot free. I needed to update the firmware on a couple of NVME drives that were to be used in a NAS which I had already tried to update using an external USB NVME enclosure but unsuccessfully. This board arrived and I was immediately impressed with its build quality, the PCB is very thick and has very few components. In the box were two PC brackets, 1 x full height and 1 x low profile. A small screwdriver, one brass standoff and 2 x M2 screws. The PCB already has a brass standoff permanently fitted in the 2280 length position so you only need one of the M2 screws to hold down the NVME if using that one. The other standoff can be fitted to one of the other predrilled holes for shorter length NVMEs and screwed through the bottom of the PCB using the other M2 screw, all in all a well thought out design. The card fits snuggly in the PCIe slot and there was plenty of room to take an NVME with Heat sink or a third party add on one, not that I needed one in my user case. I fitted a 2280 NVME to the card, installed in the PC and booted windows 11. The NVME was immediately found in the Disk Management utility and by the Crucial Storage Manager software. After the firmware was updated I repeated the process and left the empty card in the PC for future use. Overall I am very please with my purchase, it performed at the speed I expected and was perfectly compatible with my motherboard. You could buy similar boards at a slightly lower price but I feel this one offers exceptional quality for the price I paid, which was more than reasonable.

Did the job but blocked my GPU fans so had to switch to a low profile

Werkt perfect, ideale kaart voor deze prijs

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Je ne m’en suis servi qu’une seule fois pour contrôler mon SSD et vérifier qu’il était bien à jour, et il a parfaitement fait le travail. Produit simple, pratique et efficace. J’ai malheureusement dû le retourner car mon ordinateur est tombé en panne et je n’en avais donc plus l’utilité. Sinon, j’en étais tout à fait satisfait.

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