Key-M to PCIe Adapter Card - M.2 NVMe SSD Converter - Compatible with Desktop PCs/Motherboards - (Supports 2280/2260/2242/2230 Sizes)

I bought a E-keyed Coral Dual Edge TPU adapter a while back for object detection with Frigate. It sat around for a while until I finally got cameras and I put it in a mini PC. That didn't work (because my E-key port was meant for Wifi/BT cards only), so I ended up buying an E-key adapter to B+M key adapter specifically made for this m.2 Coral version (from makerfabs). That worked great in the mini PC but I realized I wanted to use Frigate as an "always recording" NVR in addition to just object detection, so I wanted to put it into my NAS running Unraid. I have no NVME slots in that motherboard, so that's where this adapter comes in. Amazon's Rufus AI summarized the reviews and said that another user got the native B+M keyed Coral to work with this adapter, so I figured it would probably work with the E-keyed adapter that I already had adapted, but wasn't sure. After I got it into the NAS, both TPU cores came up right away after I installed the driver plugin, so I figured I'd come back and leave this review so others would be able to know as well. So if you're like me and you have misadventures in computing like I seem to do a lot of the time, this will save your bacon and allow you to put it the E-key to B+M key and finally into a PCIe slot. Though if I had known what I was going to do before, I would have just bought the similar E-key to PCIe adapter.... but hindsight is 20/20. The price on this thing is great too. I wouldn't use this for an actual NVMe SSD since it's only a PCIe x1 card, but for my use case PCIe x1 is totally fine, the E-key Coral TPU device I think only uses 2 lanes to begin with, so while a little bottlenecked, it's not enough for me to care about.

Works as advertised!

What's up? This is a GOOD CARD for BUMPING UP YOUR SPEED from a SATA 6gb/s to a cheap NVME like the Samsung 980 for $109 right now 2/22/2022 .. these prices only go down, but as SSD's get MORE functional at the $100 price point, we are going to see more interest as the 980 and similar value-play SSD's cross into the under $100/1tb category. I used this SINGLE-LANE card alone with a Z97-based MSI motherboard, and was able to upgrade the BIOS to enable me to boot from an older mSATA-based motherboard that did not support NVME at all into a motherboard that would boot from an NVME-drive mounted through a PCI-slot. I am using my multi-lane slots for video cards, and blackmagic decklink video capture cards that need the high bandwidth. So slurping up extra bandwidth with these cards is "dope" IMO. I recommend this one for places where you only have a single-lane, and I recommend the STARTECH 4x solution if you want to get into the faster-speeds and if you have the 4x-lane available. It's wise to have an extra at these prices, and I have an extra single-lane card for when I just need to get one to work (for example, a friend brings over an NVME and wants me to read it and I want it to be more reliable and faster than over USB connection. If you look at this card, it's about the cheapest card ever produced, it has three diodes, seven capacitors, five resistors. Only fifteen total pieces besides the connectors and the PC-board. This is not bad, just understand that is literally just wiring your NVME directly up to your PCIe-bus, and it's the fastest way to access your NVME. Only the single-lane is holding you back, and for smaller writes, like compiling code, it's going to be fine. For moving around large media files, you may still want to get a 4x-lane card instead of this one if you have the lanes available. But adding multiple of these where you have a MB like I have, you can put plenty of these single-lane cards in and use a software raid solution to get better bandwidth if all your remaining PCI bandwidth is already allocated! This can be a great solution with multiple cards in a video-editing rig, for example, that just needs cheap and plentiful editing space for doing projects.

I got this product because my main SSD was running out of space. The expansion card came on time but did not come with instructions. It seems like a pretty straightforward installation, but the SSD would not fit into the expansion card. Trick is do it at a certain angle and to push really hard. This is my first time installing a M2 SSD, but it took a lot of force. Maybe this is common. Anyway, a small instruction sheet telling you the angle and how hard to push would be nice.

Despite saying "PCI-E 3.0" all over it this works fine with PCIe Gen 4. Which makes sense, it's a passive device. All this card does is bring a PCI lane out to an M.2 plug. And if you have a Gen 4 Motherboard and an open x1 slot, it's well worth it to get a Gen 4 NVMe drive and this card instead of a SATA SSD. A single lane of PCIe Gen 4 is almost three times faster than SATA III. It's a great way to add storage for all those Steam games and random webm's.

Purchased this card to add an NVME drive to a PC. It was easy to install the drive and the card fit quickly into the PCI-e slot. The setup was quick and the new drive is working great. Excellent buy.

My old SSD finally kicked the bucket, and my motherboard doesn't have any M.2 slots, but the Bios does have UEFI support! Bought this, and a compatible M.2 SSD. Golden, right? Not quite. The Windows 10 installer requires either MBR and Legacy (EFI) or GPT and UEFI, but does not allow both! It took some fiddling to get the new SSD formatted (used Ubuntu USB) and find the right Bios settings (had to turn OFF all Legacy features, not just boot) and then had to disconnect all other storage, then the Win10 installer (also USB) was finally satisfied, ran successfully (very fast too!) and it's been running great!

This device has a very simple task and it performs that task. It just converts PCIe to the format that SSDs use. It will not work with SATA M.2 SSDs. It isn't supposed to. It will not make a motherboard that cannot boot from NVMe do so. It isn't supposed to. It will not get the full 4x speed. It is 1x, it will get (surprise) 1x. At PCIe 3.0 speeds, that's still quite healthy. It's a dirt simple device that is intended to do one specific thing and it did that task completely perfectly.

Very Good Product 👍

Exactly as shown

The product is advertised to allow you to add additional high speeds NVME m.2. The catch is even though NVMe drives can hit speeds over 2,500MB/s, the limitation is that the PCI-e 3.0 x1 slots can only go up to around 985MB/s. Pretty misleading in terms of how the information was presented. If this was a SATA m.2 expansion card, it would definitely make more sense. If you want to utilise the speed, you will need to slot this card in at least a PCI-e 3.0 x4 slot and a PCI-e expansion card that supports x4. I haven't tried putting this into a x4 or greater slot to see if the expansion card can actually support the speeds. If someone has, reply and let everyone know! I don't have any spare slots besides x1s left.

Buen producto

普通に使えます。 青色LEDが付いているのに買う前わからず、ライティングにこだわる人は注意。 グラボの真下に取り付けたので隠れて気になりませんが…。 グラボファンにも近いですがサイズ小さいのでエアフローには影響なしと思います。 速度はGen4でもほぼ理論値出ます（1.6GB/s）。 簡素なヒートシンク追加しても40℃くらいなので冷却効果はあまりなさそう。