SABRENT M.2 NVMe SSD to PCIe X16/X8/X4 Adapter Card, Heatsink

I just installed this last night in my HP EliteDesk 800 G9 SFF. I needed to add a second NVMe (M.2 2280) drive, but the location of the SSD2 slot wouldn't allow for a 2280-sized drive (the chipset heat sink was in the way). So Using the PCIe slot with an adapter was the solution. Here's my experience: I found the instructions very sketchy, especially with regard to the thermal strips. A product video by Sabrent adequately describes the disassembly/re-assembly and at least mentions the thermal strips but still doesn't provide any guidance for which ones or how many to use. I finally resorted to using an AI chatbot, which suggested for my particular drive to use the thick strip on the top only (of course, removing the protective film layers first of course). I found no difficulty in the drive installation using the drive hold-down screw/nut combination, and the enclosure re-assembly went without a hitch with the provided screws. Installation into the slot was literally and figuratively a snap. I monitored drive temperatures while doing AI-assisted photo editing (Topaz and Luminar Neo); at its heaviest load, it never exceeded 38 degrees C. As far as I'm concerned the product itself is great and would recommend it with the caveat that the instructions are definitely inadequate, requiring the user to consult additional information.

I have a 2tb Predator 7200 speed drive, that I put in this. I put this in a full slot and have experienced only the slightest decrease in speed, almost completely unnoticeable, and will never be a factor in gaming. This is a perfect drive with over-the-top efficiency, and a better temperature than my base pc with extra fans. Could not be more impressed with the seating on it either, every small frame, a lock in like on a graphics card, and a light indicator that's easy to see. This cost about double the competitors with less slots, but comes with a big built in heat sink, and better pretty much everything else, compatibility, speed, and durability. If you don't mind the increased price, this is just a safe option.

I've used one of these for about a year now and its held up well. I can't speak about the write speeds or anything of that sort, but it seems to be pretty swift. I simply needed more storage for media, but having used up all of my other slots on my board is when I looked into something like this. Temperatures are within normal levels and it does what I need it to do. If you need another M.2 drive and don't have a slot for it, but have a PCIe slot or two open, then you can't go wrong with this one.

I am updating this review to 4-Stars because I did figure out that the limitations the drive tested was experiencing in my screenshot were partly Samsung Magician 'weird'. I tested a different PCIe Gen4 drive in the Sabrent card with CrystalDisk & saw 6.9GB/s Write speed & 6.4GB/s read speed... here's my original review: So I want to start this review with what I don't like/what isn't good. The packaging is basic, which can be expected from something in this price range, the reason that I gave it 3 stars instead of 5 is 2 simple things: 1: THERE WAS NO RETAINING/MOUNTING SCREW IN THE PACKAGE. The instructions LITERALLY say "screw in retainer screw to hold your SSD in place" and there's no screw to do so with. Also, I tried an M.2 screw from a motherboard's M.2 drive screw set, and the threads are not compatible so I couldn't even use that. I ended up just installing the drive with the included thermal pad with no mounting screw or brace in place (I later replaced this Thermal Pad with a better one & the drive runs even cooler now). 2: *(This comment is now inaccurate because of newer testing I've done on the product, but I'm leaving in this part so others that experience it know it's not just them - Do not use Samsung Magician to benchmark your drive speeds, use CrystalDisk if you must get numbers - just remember any benchmark is putting the drive under unnecessary strain and you shouldn't run it regularly). The read speed on the drive is performing inferior to the M.2 slots that are on my actual motherboard. I have 5 M.2 drives total, 3 (including this one) are 990 Pro models, the 2 990 Pros that are installed in the motherboard hit 6400-7400MB/s read speed on the same test in the picture I included with this review, this card's drive is stuck in the sub 5000MB/s category. It's not a huge deal, but it is something that detracts from the value imo. Couple of things to point out because I asked the question myself & got no answer: The card does run at full x4 4.0 speed & the interface with the M.2 is x4 4.0 according to Samsung Magician, so it is running at full speed as advertised, which I know some other off-brand cards have issues with (I've returned one that did before, Sabrent does not have this problem) The positives: 1: Installation, other than the retaining screw being missing, was quite simple & straight forward, you unscrew the backplate, it comes apart, you use the right size thermal pad (I recommend the thicker one to ensure good interface with the heatsink), put your M.2 drive in, put the thermal pad on it, and screw it back together, then pop it in your PCIe slot. 2: Temperatures are excellent - one thing to point out, I do have active airflow over the area with a fan which is also providing airflow over my GPU's intakes, so it is in a pretty optimal cooling scenario, but, I did a full test on the drive (which is what's shown in the picture) and it topped out at 42C on the main drive temp, with 52C on the "Drive 3" (which I assume is Controller temp), according to HWInfo 64. Pretty great temperatures, so the cooling is definitely good. 3: Quality of build/material is pretty good, I would question the longevity of the screws used to put it together because they are very small with VERY small threads, so they may not last long with repeated install/removal, but the heatsink/card itself feels very quality. So I knocked it 1 star (updated) overall for the missing screw & the read speed being a bit low. If they had just included that screw or a better mounting-holding thing for the drive installation, I would've given it 5 stars.

I considered buying a cheaper board, but I’m glad I didn’t! The build quality is excellent. The board comes with thermal pads and a tiny screwdriver for opening the heat sink enclosure. I was concerned about the lack of the standard expansion card frame, but this enclosure is very sturdy and seats securely in the motherboard slot. This is an outstanding product.

Bought this to give some new life to a Mac Pro 4,1 that I'd flashed the firmware on to 5,1. It's working well as the boot drive for OS X 10.14.6 (Mojave)—just needed to make sure the Mac Pro firmware was updated by the Mojave installer prior to installing the adapter; I used a Samsung 970 EVO plus ssd in the adapter. I only have a few quibbles with the Sabrent adapter… Performance: The 970 EVO plus maxed out for the PCIe 2.0 bus on the Mac Pro; 1480MB/sec write, 1450MBs/sec on writes. Regrettably, I forgot to benchmark when I initially had the adapter-drive combo in my PC for a brief second. Guess I was to intent on getting the Mac Pro rocking the fast ssd booting…and perhaps I can be forgiven for that! ;/ Update 1 (Oct 9, 2023) : I really like the adapter—it has blinky led lights on the top so you can tell when the drive is being accessed if you have a view of the mobo. This is really handy when doing CPU/component swaps and you aren't seeing anything on the screen. This feature helped me greatly when doing a complex dual Xeon upgrade to my computer. Thanks, Sabrent for this well designed adapter! My one major quibble is that it was unclear which of the two thermal adhesion pads to use with the 970evo+ ssd. If you get the same drive I got, use the thin pad, not the thick one like I did. I decided to leave the thick on anyways, so as not to waste a pad needlessly, etc, but had to loosen the screws on the adapter drive case plate a bit so would be less stress on the 970evo+ board inside. At least the next time around, I won't make this Sabrent adapter rookie mistake. A minor quibble is the number of screws required to get everything setup properly in the adapter. It takes 5. I'm not a design wiz or anything but seems like there's gotta be a better way to snap the drive case closed without having to resort to four small screws, especially considering that, once the drive is setup inside the case, the thermal paste adhesion strip is basically there to stay. Another minor quibble is the adapter's black case, making it hard to find a place to use a permanent marker notes on the adapter that are readily visible. It would be nice if there was a white strip on the back of the adapter suitable for just penciling that in. As it was, I had to go looking for some white tape. In retrospect, maybe I should have used a labelmaker? Anyways, if you're doing a bunch of these installs at the same time, with different ssds in some of them, it'd be easier if one just had that little white space already handy to mark each adapter with its ssd model number and storage cap, the date installed, etc. Other notes: You need a full 4 lane PCIe slot form factor bus for the card. It also has a little notch on the back for locking into slots that have that tab.

Product worked perfectly. Easy to install in slot and no issues in being recognized by the PC. I did clean the drive and initialized the drive prior to installing which saved a couple steps once in the box.

works as expected, havent had any proloned use but its perfectly fine and does a good job with heat!

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Apreciei a qualidade do produto, aliás consultei o site do fabricante... Fácil de instalar, não causará danos ao Pciex. Sim, barramento é X4, rodando com SSD Crucial M.2 P3 500MB. [obs. Pciex Asus sabertooth 990FX é 2.0, conforme foto, velocidade de leitura e gravação foi a máxima adquirida para este Pciex 2.0... SSD é para Pciex 3.0.] RECOMENDO o produto e vendedor, produto chegou antes do prazo estipulado pelo Amazon. Obs. Para este modelo de Main board, afim de fazer boot Windows 10, tive que atualizar para a última versão de BIOS afim de ser detectável SSD M.2 NVME, então é obrigatório consultar compatibilidade de funcionamento da Main board para com este periférico SSD M.2 NVME.

Um einer älteren Dell 7910 Workstation ein bisschen mehr Schwung zu geben, haben wir diesen Adapter zusammen mit einer Samsung 990 PRO NVMe M.2 SSD rein gebaut. Und siehe da, alles geht ein bisschen schneller :). In der Verpackung sind 3 Wärmeleitpads, zwei dünnere und ein etwas dickeres. Das dickere ist immer zu dick (unten, oben und auch unter der SSD), die Dünneren etwas zu dünn. Da weiß man nicht so richtig wo was hinkommen soll. Der Hersteller sollte da noch ein bisschen nachbessern und dokumentieren. Aber so wie es am besten gepasst hat scheint es halbwegs zu funktionieren.

Werkt perfect en precies zoals omschreven voor mijn 1Tb Samsung EVO 970 Nvme SSD, in combinatie met een Gigabyte X99 moederbord. Read speed 3535 Mb/s en write 3050 Mb/s. Voor de bijgeleverde blauwe koelstrips wordt in de manual niet toegelicht hoe ze gebruikt kunnen worden. Ik heb 1 dikkere strip onder de SSD geplaatst en 1 dunnere variant bovenop de SSD. Er zijn Youtube videos installatie videos te vinden, zoals deze: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB87WNisVJA.

12/11/2025 monté sur un hp proliant microserver gen7 N40L sur le port pcie 16x2 et reconnu par un système debian 13 sans problème. la vitesse avec hdparm -tT est de +-1700MB/sec (cached) et 852MB/sec (buffered). l'adaptateur est couplé à un ssd (netac) NVMe 250 Go (PCIe 3.0, 3D NAND, NVMe, M.2 Gaming SSD) jusqu'à 3000 Mo/s pour PC NAS. sur le ssd une database postgres de plus de 150GO répond parfaitement. rien à dire pour le moment, il faudra voir avec le temps ...