INTEFIRE M.2 USB 3.0 Adapter, M2 SSD Reader, NGFF SATA Based B & M Key Solid State Drive Converter as Portable Flash Drive/External Hard Drive, Support 2230 2242 2260 2280 (No Cable Needed)

Probably wonder what my title means well if you buy USB or PCI-E all the reviews go to the same spot. Makes answering questions kinda hard. Anyway, I bought an "INTEFIRE M.2 NVME SSD PCIe Adapter, M2 PCI-e 3.0 x4 Host Controller Expansion Card" It says that it works with PCI-E 3.0 X4, X8 or X16. I am using an older Motherboard that does not have an M.2 Slot so the only way I could get it to boot was using my PCI-E X16 Slot. Had I known this I would have boughten an X16 Adapter to make full use of all the Lanes. But live and learn. I am using a Samsung 970 Evo (Leftover from another build) These are the scores that Samsung Magician is Reporting. (I am showing these as real Disk Bench Utilities were somewhat lower) Sequential MB read 1,630 write 1,457 / Random IOP read 139,892 write 119,384

Note that the reviews shown here are for several different INTEFIRE M.2 products that Amazon considers different "sizes" of the same thing. I purchased the two slot PCIe card with a SATA based B key slot and a PCIe based M key slot. It took just a couple of minutes to slip a pair of 1 TB drives into the slots and run a cable to a SATA port, secure the card in its PCIe port and my Windows 10 PC recognized two new drives instantly. I get the full advertised ~550MB/s on the SATA version and ~2700MB/s on the other. My only concern is that the screws and backs INTEFIRE provides you are laughably short. These things barely reach through the PCB to screw together even without putting an M.2 drive in between to be held down! I had plenty of spare fasteners lying around from building my PC but it could be a problem for someone short on spare screws/backs.

This is the first one of its type I've seen that works with SATA M.2 drives. I cloned a mechanical hard drive to an M.2 drive this afternoon with this stick. Works great! I can't wait to use it again. It makes system hardware upgrades much faster and easier.

I used it to retrieve data from a defunct laptop, motherboard fried.It's a little light in term of robustness, but exactly what I expected, it's just a little board with an USB adapter.Maybe a little slower than I expected while transferring data to the new pc, but it might have been the drive itself.Overall money well spent

I used this adapted to transfer the content of an old SATA SSD to a new drive with larger capacity. The adapter did the job fine. I completed the process with no issues.

I plugged my new SSD into this and ran Acronis and it copied my FULL 128gb SSD drive to my new 512gb SSD drive in under 10 minutes. I am running Windows 10 Pro on a Dell G5

Does exactly what it claims to do. Easiest way to access an m.2 drive and even use it as a thumb drive.

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