NVMe PCIe Adapter, RIITOP M.2 NVMe to PCI-e x4/x8/x16 Card with Heat Sink for M.2 (M Key) SSD 2280/2260/2242/2230 [Upgraded]

I used these with multiple Samsung 990 PRO, M2 SSD's. They have heat sinks so i only used the adaptor and not the included Heat Sink. Easy install into a PCIe slot. Holds securely. Seems well constructed. I installed 3 of them and they perform flawlessly. So a well made product. If using with a standard M2 I would have used the included heat sink. I recommend this product.

easy to use. plugged right in and had no issues

Pros: Easy to install, works perfectly,No drivers needed, comes with everything you need to install a nvme drive.Cons: the back of the nvme drive doesn't make contact with pcb so having thermal pad in-between the pcb and drive probably doesn't matter.Also since the nvme drive doesn't touch the pcb the thermal pad for the back of the pcb and backplate is also not important. I'm guessing if you somehow have a m.2 device that makes contact with the pcb then the thermal pads would make sense.Lastly no matter if I took off the back thermal pad or not i couldn't get the bottom left screw of the back plate to go in. Maybe I wasn't putting the card in the heat sink properly, I spent 10 minutes fidgeting with it trying to get the card in correctly but couldn't figure out why the screw wasn't connecting. I bet you could get a longer screw and you'd be able to secure it better. I ended up leaving the screw out which seemed un important and so far isn't an issue.I got my brother a WD nvme but found out after buying it that the second m.2 slot on his mother board wasn't for storage and wouldn't work with the drive. He had another pcie x16 slot so I got this expansion card and it works perfectly. For those like me he has a B450M Pro mother board which has two pcie x16 slots but the second one is only 2.0. I read online that the slot only being 2.0 would slow the drive down significantly but after installing the drive in the card and running a speed test I was getting 1500mbps which is the same speed as his Samsung 970 nvme in the m.2 slot. I'm not sure why the 970 is only that speed when it's rated much higher, maybe the motherboard doesn't support higher speeds. At the end of it all im very pleased with this product with how it work without any drivers and only took about 20 minutes to install which would have been more like 5 if I didn't try putting the back plate on backwards.

Recently I purchased a new gaming PC. The only drive it had was a 512gb nvme solid state card. Now I've been working with computers since 1984 when desktops were fast if they ran at 4.77Mhz and the drive was big if it had 20Mb of storage space. Even so, I had not yet used these types of drives on a desktop. I was very happy with its performance, especially compared to other ssd's that fit regular 2.5 or even 3" dive slots. But the initial storage size was smaller than I needed so I bought a larger nvme drive but didn't want to lose the use of the original nvme drive that came with it. Since there was only one slot for this type of drive in my PC, I started looking around to see if I could find some sort of adapter that would allow me to be able to use both the new and old drives. At first I found an PCI adapter that would work, but would require me to pop out one of the PCIe slot shields from the back of the PC case, something I didn't want to do if not necessary. Then I found a USB adaptor that would allow me to put the original nvme ssd into it and use it like a thumb drive, but that would mean having it sticking out of a USB port either in the back or front of the PC where it could easily be damaged or broken, especially if I intended on that being some sort of permanent solution (because it would be nearly twice the length of a regular USB thumb drive for one).Finally I found this PCIe adapter. If it worked it would fit my needs perfectly. No sticking out of an external USB port, no having to knock out a shield slot for a PCIe port, it would fit as a permanent fix safely inside my PC, attached to the mother board via a PCIe port, out of the way and have it's own heat sink to boot.It was easy to setup and easy to install. My PC recognised it right away and have had no issues in using it as a second drive.How I set it up:First I backed up the complete nvme ssd original to my PC using AOMEI free backup software. Then I made a bootable USB thumb drive using YUMI-UEFI version 0.0.4.4 and installed the latest version of Clonezilla on it.Next, I removed the 512gb ssd original to my PC and installed the new, larger gigabit drive - still not formatted or having anything on it.Then I installed the original nvme ssd into this adapter and plugged it into the lowest PCIe slot on my motherboard, having NOT done anything else to it.I then booted my PC all the while taping the F12 key to make it load the boot menu (your PC may use a different key to load the boot menu, that is a menu that comes up before the PC even looks for a drive to boot from. It generally doesn't come up by default. Many PC's will use either the ESC key, F10, F12, or the DEL key during start up to load the boot menu. In any case, the boot menu has to be turned on in bios to work. Don't worry, most PC's already have this turned on.)From the boot menu I selected the USB thumb drive containing the clonezilla software. I simply followed the on screen prompts to get it to clone the old drive to the new drive.After the cloned operation finished (took about an hour) , I rebooted my PC. The new drive booted flawlessly. Because of the tools I used to do this, I still had to resize my new drive to take advantage of all the space available on it. I also had to reset the old drive to remove its signature and give it a new one so that I could assign it a different drive letter and actually use it as a secondary drive. When cloning with clonezilla you get an exact copy of your original drive, including its specific drive signature which will cause a conflict if your trying to use both drives at the same time in your computer. After cloning and rebooting, it's actually easy to fix the signature conflict simply using the built in drive management tool in Microsoft's Windows operating system.My method of cloning and such might seem a bit complex for some, so an easier method might be found in the following note.(A note that might help here. If the drive you are cloning from is smaller than the one you are cloning to, clonezilla will not automatically resize the cloned partition to take advantage of the larger space. Don't worry, your cloned drive will still work, but if you meant to use the whole size of the new drive as a larger version of the old one, using clonezilla will require you to manually resize the cloned partition. To do that, I used the free AOMIE Partition Assistant. HOWEVER, if you are replacing your old drive with a new nvme ssd made by Western Digital (WD), they offer a free version of "Acronis True Image" that you can download from the link they give you with the documentation that comes with the drive. This software is worth having because it's an excellent backup management tool for your PC gong forward, but also provides a disk cloning option that WILL automatically resize the cloned partition to take advantage of the larger new drive. You will need to install this software BEFORE you start your cloning operation. Have a USB thumb drive of at least 4gb in size ready, then in the "Tools" section of the Acronis True Image software you'll find a clone disk option. This will walk you through creating a bootable USB thumb drive and prepare you for the cloning operation. During the cloning operation it will give you the option to automatically resize the cloned partition to use the extra space on the new drive if it's bigger than the old one.)Hope this helps someone. I know it's a lot to take in just to find out if this adapter is worth getting. I think it is worth getting, at least it was for me. I am very happy with my purchase. One thing of note, with this adapter - or really any other similar adapter - because it is using the much shower PCI bus of your motherboard, it is going to be a bit slower than it was in the original nvme slot simply because the PCI bus (the connection interface between where the card plugs in and the motherboard) is generally a slower interface anyway. It's just the way the motherboard is designed.

Wanted to add another 1tb gen 4 NVMe so I bought this and I’m very pleased.

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Exactly what it is, a PCIE for m2 SSD, well made, easily installed.Heat sink performance seems good according to temps, bootable, fit just right.

Fitment of the SSD in the encloser was not on point, but it still works and performs as it should. Other than the SSD in the enclosure fitment no issues and speed is on Point!