VantecMulti-Size M.2 to SATA III Port Converter Kit UGT-M2ST120

Very cheap feeling board...The "holes" for the screws to mount the board are ovals, not round, AND the female threaded "nut" that slips in from underneath and accepts the screw is slightly too long...SO you don't feel like the card is held securely.....Other than that, it worked instantly upon installation and turning on the power and booting up...Caveats:A. I am running an MSI Z97 Gaming 7 Motherboard, from 2013-2014..The M.2 slot is only PCIe Gen 2 x 2...(You need Gen 3 x 4 lanes for best performance)B. Upon booting into Windows, I ran Samsung Magician and it stated that now my SSD is running at PCIe Gen 3 x 4! Which it did NOT when I had this card on the M.2 slot on the MB....C. I needed to format and re-configure the look-up table (old version: MBR or "Master Boot Record") to the new version, which is GPT...THIS allows you to use a UEFI bios, which allows you to run the card/drive at full speed and to boot from it...So, like 40 minutes in and so far, no BSOD errors or anything...!

Works flawlessly with a Samsung EVO 960 NVMe 512. Selected this board as it has the on-board drive indicator LEDs, as opposed to just the header (or no header) for many of the generic boards. Also included a second set of mounting hardware. Note, there is not a lot of clearance beneath the NVMe SSD once mounted, which a consideration for some of the 3rd-party heatsinks. Getting 1602/1589 MBs Read/Write via Crystal DiskMark, but didn't expect full speed as I'm running the card on a PCI 2.0 motherboard in a PCIe 4X slot.

I had a 4 year old system. The card was fine but I wanted the drive attached to the card to be a boot drive. The BIOS on my 4 year old ASUS mother board would not support this card. That is not this venders fault. they promptly issued a return RMA. Do your research by calling the manufacturer of your motherboard if your system is older than 2 years. These cards will provide lightning fast boot ups with the correct mother board.

it was nice to open the package of product but when i put my nvme in it , i saw it is not nice. because the screw is moving up side down if you screw it as possible as thit time it is bending the nvme. but big shock is i couldnt mountit to pcieslot because it has shorter than normal size and i couldnt mount on pcie slot. i had to remove the bracet! which is not secure and shouldnt be done! but it is working with samsung 960 1tb without problem now. i think i need to find new bracket because the dimension of metal is not enough fitting for slot and case. idont recommend if you dont want to encounter problems like this.

I replaced a 256GB SanDisk X600 M.2 which was OEM in my Asus FX504 with a 1TB Silicon Power NVMe PCIe and had no use for the old drive until I found this Vantec enclosure. The X600 was super easy to install in the enclosure and is now used as secondary storage for my old Toshiba Satellite Radius. I had doubts about such a low-priced gadget, but this Vantec enclosure is well worth the price and functions beautifully. The enclosure I purchased will accept B-key only or B+M-key only, will not work with NVMe drives and provides a USB 3.0 interface. However, there are several configurations for this enclosure.

had to trim the plate for the back plate would not line up even with screws loose as ive seen others do i just trimmed it so it didnt go all the to the MoBo but after that it works and seems just as fast as on board M.2 slots i'm running 3 970 evo plus and all SSD benchmarks have them inline with ea other ,,,at first it wasnt recognized in the 4x slot only in the unused 16X @ 8x slot and even then wont boot from it only for storage but that was probably a MoBo (abit IX38 quadGT) limitation considering ABIT stopped making MoBos over a decade ago but ive since upgraded to a MSI z390 and all the other goodies

Having an older home built desktop (circa 2012) this unit using an Intel 660p series 1 TB M.2, inserted into the M.2 slot, plugged right in to my lower PCIe slot (2.0x16) and after going into Disk Management, formatting and assigning a Drive letter worked exactly as advertised. CrystalDiskMark6 shows 1800+ Read with 1300+ Write speeds, which is phenomenal as it is the older type slot. I plan to use this as data storage and for the speed and prices it really is a good buy. Highly recommend for this purpose.

I have been running it for like maybe 2 hours and it just died. I tried several computers and usb 2 and 3 just died. The ssd is fine plopped it onto a sata m.2 adapter and put it in my clone bay works fine there. Plus the mounting post is super flimsy will bounce around in place since it does not properly lock down.

First the good, it worked with ASUS Z97 Deluxe, BIOs 2903 with Samsung NVMe 960 Pro 1TB installed in the Vantec Card. This card and NVMe is located in a spare PCIEX 16-2 slot for GPU. I am using only one graphics card in PCIEX 16-1 slot. Card Should be operating at x4 in PCIe x8 lane. Samsung NVMe 960 Pro 1TB has Window 10, x64, originally installed in the M.2 x 2 slot. Speed has almost tripled in the PCIe x 16 slot. Read 2224, 1787 Write, random read IOPS 291,426 write 205,770. Although the physical relocate of the NVMe from Motherboard M.2 to this card was relatively uneventful, I did have to boot into safe mode at first and Windows 10 seems to have installed the Samsung NVMe 2.3 driver and removed MS NME generic driver. Now the bad, unless, I bend the bracket, the header bracket does not match my case properly. The build quality of the board ok and I cannot give it a 10, maybe a 6. The hardware stand off do not work as a stand off. It just sits loose with the flat head screw clamping the NVMe board between the screw and stand off. This more or less allows the NVMe board to slide in and out of the header. A bit of electrical tape will provide better assurance that 1) the screw will not work loose and 2) the NVMe board will stay put inside the header.I have seen better products from Vantec before, but this is not one of them.

DESPUES DE 5 MESES. Se siente de excelente calidad, totalmente de metal y siento que por eso disipa muy bien el calor, incluso trabajando con maquinas virtuales instaladas en la memoria externa.El único detalle que le encuentro es que queda un poco suelta la placa donde se inserta la SSD, la SSD en si queda muy fija pero la placa se mueve dentro de la funda, es mínimo pero notable, los tornillos de un lado se sienten barridos. Pero en general excelente producto solo necesita trabajar en algunos detalles.

I purchased mine to temporally house a larger capacity SSD in, then clone my Windows SSD onto it. It has done the job and will get more use as an external SSD using the PC's original SSD. Nic look and feel to the materials used, although the tiny screws could be easy to lose or damage. I was careful and everything is A-OK

Motherboard only came with one M2 slot. This little thingamabob allowed me to add another PCIE M2 slot and also a SATA M2 slot in one shot. Came with mounting screws and even a screw driver.Install took maybe 5 minutes and it works perfectly. Even has activity LED lights. Been running for a few weeks now with absolutely no issue.Only downside is that the mounting is a little off so the M2 cards are not perfectly flat. Not a big deal but may annoy some.If you need another M2 slot (either NVME or SATA or both) then this is a great way to do it.

I buy this to recover my M.42 SSD as my HP laptop died. It worked well with an old laptop (10 years old dell) USB port.The little screw go into a small fragile plastic part, and it will break right away. But does not affect the functionality, and for me it did the job.