Dual M.2 PCIE Adapter

I used the Yateng board to install a Samsung 970 EVO PLUS 1 Tb M.2 vNand SSD in a Gen 3 x4 PCIE slot. The result is that even though the Yateng board is sharing the PCIE bus with an nVidia GTX 1070 Super x16 graphics board, the Samsung 970 EVO PLUS performs close to its maximum specs and is faster than my 512 Gb KIOXIA (Toshiba spinoff) System drive on a Windows 10 Pro vers. 2004 computer. The instructions as far as mounting the heat radiator on the NVME drive board are clear enough BUT at least as first installed, the silica gel does not make contact between the back of the radiator board and the front surface of the Samsung SSD board-because the Samsung board is NOT flat! One can see air gaps between the radiator, the gel pad, and the Samsung board - so much for heat radiation - however when all was assembled and put into the computer, the Samsung Magician software says the board is operating at a normal temperature, 102 to 109 deg F in a house that's 82 to 86 deg F itself. Perhaps with time the gel pad supposed to absorb water from the air and swell to make contact???? The next challenge was how to screw the left end of the Samsung SSD board to the Yateng PCIE board (see 1st attached photo). There's a packet of 4 screws in the Yateng box but no instructions. The bracket in the Yateng on the right to plug in the SSD NVME connectors elevates the SSD drive off the Yateng PCIE board. So you don't want to screw the SSD board flat down on the left or you might strain or break the NVME receptacle on the right or stress out the SSD drive itself. Looking around the Yateng board, there are TWO knurled knobs screwed onto the board with screws that come through the other side of the board (lower left of photo). It turns out that if you unscrew a knob, use its indented edge to prop up the left end of the SSD board, then insert and tighten the screw from the other side of the board, the SSD board is very nicely mounted and supported over the Yateng board, same height on both ends, parallel to Yateng board. The 2nd screw/knob combination in the lower left of the Yateng board I left in place. That's presumably for anyone who wants to mount a 2nd NVME SSD board in the upper slot and use it as a (much slower) SATA SSD drive with the supplied SATA cable, etc. Last problem with no instructions supplied was how to attach the mounting bracket to the Yateng board (if you open your computer and look at the space the board is going to go into, you'll know from the size of the filler bracket already there whether you need to use the large or small mounting bracket supplied with the Yateng board). I need to use the larger mounting bracket as I have a big computer case. If you look carefully at the 2nd photo I've attached, you can see that the mounting bracket attachment points GO BEHIND THE YATENG BOARD, not on the same side that the SSD is mounted. So if you put the mounting bracket behind the board, the two smaller screws supplied in a bag work nicely to clamp the Yateng board between the screw heads and the mounting bracket attachment points. Once I had inserted the board, closed the case, reattached all the wires, powered my computer up, I went to the Windows 10 disk management utility and allocated the drive as a GPT partition table and formatted the drive with NTFS as a simple volume. I then downloaded Samsung Magician and ran some performance tests. Ideally, the Samsung drive should be able to do 3,500/3,300 MB/s read/write performance. The performance I got in the PCIE slot was not quite there (see 3rd attached photo) but close enough for me (I was actually moving the mouse from time to prevent the screen from timing out and I did not shut down any normally running system processes, either and also as I mentioned, I have a HUGE graphics card using the PCIE bus, too). The performance is better the 512 Gb KIOXA system drive inserted directly into an NVME slot on the motherboard, especially 3x better for random reads and writes (see 4th photo). For anyone using Windows who wants to know why to make a choice for GPT partitioning vs. the more classic MBR, I found a nice article entitled "MBR vs. GPT: Which Should You Use for Your SSD?" on the makeuseof . com website. You can probably easily find it by a Search. There are some reasons for choosing MBR but GPT is usually the better choice.

The performance was great as expected, both sata and SSD slots functioned with plug-and-play ease.

Fits perfectly. The only reason for 4 stars is that the second slot will not accept the SSD. As they only fit one way you need to make sure you have the proper SSD that can be installed in second slot. Works great speeds are fine and installation was simple. Not sure what type of SSD card is needed to fit in second slot? I have many of them and I cannot get any to work in that slot.

Installed the dual adapter for SATA or PCIE NVMe and it works great with my Dell Aurora R7. It works plugged into either an x4, x8, or x16 slot. I put this in my lower x16 mechanical (x8 electrical) slot under my GPU. I’m getting 3500 read and 1850 write with an OEM Samsung 860 Evo Pro M2 NVME PCIE 2280 drive (see photos). This product does not include any instructions whatsoever. But installation is straightforward. This is all you need to know: The faster NVME SSD goes into the slot marked “M Key.” M means there’s only one notch on the right side of the drive where you plug it in, if you’re looking at it from the side the manufacturer’s label is printed on. No SATA cable is required or useful for this setup. The adapter is set by default to fit a 2280 length (80 mm) drive and the bolt for this connection is not removable. If you have a longer or shorter M2 drive, it includes 2x screws and 2x bolts for you to install and attach the drive. I attached a photo of this product with an M Key drive. A second drive, or a slower drive with two notches, or one notch on the left-hand side, gets plugged into the “B Key” slot. B referring to there being one notch on the left-hand side of the drive where you plug it in (the specs say it will also accept an M+B key drive with 2 notices). If you use a second drive, you will need to use the supplied SATA cable – i.e., plus side no x4 bifurcation needed in bios, downside, a PCIE drive gets downclocked to SATA speeds of 600. The temps on my drive aren't going above 35 C (I'm using this drive for weekly image backups) so I didn't bother attaching the supplied heatsink to the drive. Otherwise I'd question how durable the rubber band would be long-term considering the intended use of holding down a heatsink...

My Alienware Aurora R7 is coming up on being 4 years old and I wanted to run my very large Steam games on an SSD drive. When I purchased this computer 4 years ago, SSD drives were extremely expensive, so the computer had only a 256GB SSD which Alienware calls a U drive. Having read a review by another individual that he used this card in an R7 to add an NVMe SSD in a PCIE slot, I figured I would buy one and give it a try. I purchased a SK Hynix Gold P31 2TB SSD with the card, and you can see a picture of the drive and the parts that come with this PCIE card in the attached picture. I found it very easy to attach the drive to the card with the provided heat sink (well I broke a few rubber bands but small price to pay), and subsequently installed the card into my R7's free PCIE x16 "spare video card slot". I then booted the R7 with the case cover still off and watched the "red light" turn on and blink as the drive was accessed (Hey Chinese card manufacturing dudes how about a using a green light instead?) To my dismay I did not see the drive recognized by Win 11 and wondered if I had some how blown the install. At first I thought I might have a driver issue, but it turns out that you have to set these drives up with Disk Management in Control Panel as Windows cannot see them until a drive letter is assigned and the drives are formatted. No software of any kind comes with the card. The card is basically just a way to attach your drive to your computer. While my SSD manufacturer did have a drive performance program and an installer and transfer program to make the drive a boot drive, neither program helped with the WIndows install. I'm a happy camper now that everything works and my configuration is my Toshiba 256GB U drive as my Windows 11 boot drive, my D: 7200 RPM 2TB SATA HD drive , my CDROM dive, and my new addition 2TB SSD G: Steam drive. Hopefully my new drive should keep me happy for another 3-4 years with my current system.

UPDATE: If you installed two cards the will fit fine. The problem is if both cards have heatsink they will not fit. I kind of had to force the screw on the SATA drive. Eventually, the port on the controller (SATA) suddenly pop out and broke. The space between the two cards is just two small, and now I find myself shopping for another card. Look for a dual card controller with e bigger gap between the two cards. ORIGINAL MESSAGE: I received and installed it yesterday. I had to assemble the bracket, as both provided brackets were loose on the box. I put a Silicon Power(tm) M2.NVME 4TB card on it. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09T2XVG16?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1 Windows 11 did not detect the card immediately, so I opened Disk Manager and there it was. I formatted to NTFS and assigned a drive letter and Wallah! I have not tested the M2. SATA slot yet, but I have no doubt it will work just fine. My plan is to get another 4TB card, but M2.SATA and use it as a secondary back up, since speed is slower for SATA. Finally, I didn't have to use the provided heat sink and thermal pads as my Silicon Power M2.NVME card came with heatsink preinstalled. So, maybe I am planning to use it on my SATA spare card, if the want I end up purchasing does not have heat sink. Small SATA cable is provided. It's my first time using a Silicon Power product, so I cannot speak on durability as of yet. Does anybody have any recommendation on back-up/cloning for NVME cards? I'd like to back up files as I drop them on the card. I am a rookie on that area. Thanks!

System: HP Elite 800 G1 SSF (yes, very old) Combo with: Kingston A400 240G Internal SSD M.2 2280 SA400M8/240G (used as boot and basic apps) Silicon Power 512GB NVMe M.2 PCIe Gen3x4 2280 (used as secondary disk for intense-hogging apps and caching) Warnings: * Will NOT work on older BIOS that don't support PCIe boot. Not even with the SATA NVMe connection. Just not going work. I'm lucky enough to discover that the latest 2.78 BIOS update actually allows PCIe to be detected and usable. * Will NOT work if you're depending on the PCIe NVME M.2 as the primary boot up because it's faster. Not going to happen. You MUST have the M or M+B Key SATA as the primary boot at max of 500MB/s read-write rate. With those warnings in mind, overall, the addon is quite awesome. Going from the SATA III with read-write at 120MB/s max, loading up at 500MB/s beats the old SATA III HHDs hands down. Paired up with M.2 500GB or 1TB, the system renewed with a new life to do light photoshopping/video editing for beginners. My old HDDs would have disk throttled at 90% to 100% constantly. With these additions, the HDD remains constant at 0% or max at 10%. Kids play games, and no hangup or bottlenecking. Compared to SSD and the old HDD temperature, SSD peaking out at 44C while the HDD roasts at 58C after 60 minutes. The provided silicone strips and radiating fins help with the temperature dissipation and maintained at 36C after 60 minutes. Not a bad deal.

bought, replaced, and then returned my item, as both cards were unable to properly fit and hold two NVMEs due to poor construction.

I recently had the pleasure of upgrading my storage setup with the Dual M.2 PCIe Adapter for SATA and PCIe NVMe SSDs, and I must say, it has exceeded all my expectations. This little powerhouse has transformed my computer's storage capabilities and has added a whole new level of convenience to my computing experience. Installation was a breeze. The adapter comes with clear and concise instructions, making it a straightforward process even for those who are not tech-savvy. Within minutes, I had it up and running, ready to take advantage of the lightning-fast speeds offered by PCIe NVMe SSDs or the reliability of SATA-based SSDs. One of the standout features of this adapter is its dual M.2 slots, allowing me to use two SSDs simultaneously. This has given me the flexibility to create a RAID array for increased performance and redundancy, or simply use the two SSDs independently for separate storage needs. The possibilities are endless! The performance boost is truly remarkable. With a PCIe NVMe SSD installed, I noticed a significant reduction in boot times and application loading speeds. Large file transfers that used to take ages now complete in a matter of seconds. It's a night-and-day difference compared to my old setup. Another advantage of this adapter is its sturdy construction. The PCB is of high quality, and the M.2 slots firmly hold the SSDs in place, ensuring there are no connection issues. It's evident that this adapter was built to last, and I can trust it to perform reliably for a long time. Moreover, the adapter's compact design means it doesn't take up much space inside my case, leaving room for other components and better airflow. The low-profile bracket also makes it suitable for small form factor builds, further enhancing its versatility. I appreciate the thoughtfulness put into the thermal design as well. The adapter comes with efficient heatsinks that help dissipate heat during heavy usage, ensuring the SSDs maintain optimal performance even under sustained loads. In terms of compatibility, this adapter is truly versatile. It worked flawlessly with my desktop motherboard, and I've also used it on my laptop with an external PCIe enclosure. It's rare to find such a universally compatible storage solution. In conclusion, the Dual M.2 PCIe Adapter for SATA and PCIe NVMe SSDs has been a game-changer for my computing setup. Its ease of installation, exceptional performance, robust build, and adaptability have impressed me beyond measure. If you're looking to elevate your storage performance and flexibility, this adapter is an absolute must-have. Highly recommended!

A well put together and perfectly functioning PCIE adapter that comes with some nice bells and whistles. Having the screws/stand-offs attached to the card is a nice touch.

Lo instalé en la ranura libre que tenía todavía en mi PC y ahora tengo dos discos SSD uno NVME y otro SATA que incrementan la capacidad de almacenamiento de mi PC. Es fácil de instalar, solo que no hace mención que los tornillos para fijar los discos están en la placa y yo pasé un rato buscandolos en la caja (pero solo hay que tener un poco más de atención)

Se instala el disco y los drivers son automáticos lo reconoció perfecto

I was pretty impressed with the quality of this item and all the little parts that were included (two heat sinks, two self adhesive thermal pads, short and tall bracket, lots of little screws etc.). The only think lacking were good instructions on how to put it all together. I found that reading another review here but if you are somewhat handy and and take your time it can all be figured out. As others have posted this kit supports one M2 drive with an NVME interface and on M2 drive with a Sata interface. It looks like it has mounting holes to support any standard length of M2 drives. I used it to install one NVME drive. I put it in my system (Windows 10 Asus ROG Here VI mb) booted up and it was recognized immediately without requiring drivers etc.