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.

Does exactly what I need it to, highly recommended

I upgraded my Son's PC with a larger M.2 NVME SSD so had a spare 512GB Patriot Viper N.2 NVME PCIe3 SSD just sat around doing nothing as my own PC has 2 onboard M.2 slots, both PCI 4 and both currently populated with fast NVME's.However thought this would make a good dumping ground drive for video/photo editing, music for videos, etc but obviously no free slot in my PC. hence this little chap coming in handy.due to my 3080 graphics card i can only access the lower PCIe 1x slots so this was ideal running at max PCIe x 1. I wasn't looking for blistering performance just a way of adding the Patriot Viper and it been faster than my current dumping ground SATA SSD (240GB Corsair force 3). even at 1 x PCI speed my Viper M.2 NVME installed in this card is about twice as fast at random reads/writes and 4-6 times faster at sequential than my SATA SSD.This card was easy to install. just pop your M.2 NVME drive on top and screw down, slide into the PCIe slot on the PC then power on, no drivers/software needed. whole process took about 5 minutes, formatted the drive then good to go. i have included benchmark performance differences between the SATA based SSD and the NVME based SSD sat on the adapter/expansion card so you can see the results for yourselftwo slight niggles to note, it has a bright red light which is on constantly but flashes when drive accessed (would have preferred this the other way round!) and the little screwdriver included isn't useful for anything other than the bin, outside that cannot fault the card

wanted a nvme expansion card that i could install and it wouldn't be too close to my gpu. this does that job nicely. no complaints.

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.

Easy. Works just as exptected. No issues

Easy to fit a NVMe Samsung 970 EVO drive (already formatted), which my 2009 PC immediately recognised, but alas would not boot from (BIOS rather than UEFI). Was hoping to use as faster cache drive to take advantage of higher PCIe 2.0 1X speed of 500MBps vs. SATA2 speed of 300 MBps. Unfortunately when I ran a comparison between the 2 drives I found I was only getting PCIe 1.0 1X speeds of around 200MBps. Have to return this card and try a different one, hence only 3 stars as it hasn't performed as advertised

Found this very easy to install & it works a treat!Very well priced too!