NVMe Adapter M.2 PCIe SSD to PCI-e x4/x8/x16 Converter Card for M.2 (M Key) NVMe SSD 2280/2260/2242/2230.

Product specifications:

1. M.2 NVMe to PCIe Adapter Allows adding NVMe SSD Hard Drive to your PC Desktop at perfect performance.

2. Compatible with M.2 SSDs (PCI-e NVMe): 80x22mm, 60x22mm and 42x22mm.

3.Hardware Requirement: Available 4x/8x/16x Slot on Mainboard,

4.Support Windows10 /Linux/ XP, no driver required.

Product Overview:

This product is a powerful and flexible SSD adapter expansion card, designed to build a bridge between NVME protocol SSDs and PCI-E interfaces for users, achieving efficient storage expansion and adapter functions. With its NGFF (M.2) KEY-M slot, it is compatible with various sizes of NVME protocol SSDs and can adapt to corresponding PCI-E slots on various motherboards by supporting different specifications of output ports such as PCI-E 4X, PCI-E 8X, and PCI-E 16X. It is widely used in computer assembly, server construction, and professional fields with high storage performance requirements. At the same time, the product's built-in LED indicator light can provide users with intuitive working status prompts, making it convenient to use and maintain.

Product features:

1. Multi size SSD compatible slots: The NGFF (M.2) KEY-M slot on the expansion card has excellent compatibility and can accurately adapt to four common sizes of NVME protocol SSDs: 2230, 2242, 2260, and 2280mm. The slot adopts high-precision manufacturing technology to ensure a tight and stable connection with the gold fingers of SSDs of different sizes. The contact points are made of high-quality metal materials and undergo fine surface treatment, effectively reducing contact resistance and ensuring the stability and reliability of data transmission. This provides users with greater flexibility when choosing SSDs, allowing them to select suitable products based on actual needs and budgets, and easily expand storage capacity to meet diverse data storage requirements. Whether it is a small high-performance SSD or a large capacity storage SSD, it can run stably on this adapter expansion card.

2. Multi specification PCI-E output interface: The product's output port design is highly flexible and can support the use of different bandwidth slots such as PCI-E 4X, PCI-E 8X, and PCI-E 16X. This diversified interface design can meet the needs of different users for data transmission speed and motherboard interface adaptability. Whether it is the PCI-E slot on ordinary personal computer motherboards or the high bandwidth PCI-E slot on high-performance server motherboards, it can be perfectly integrated, fully leveraging the high-performance advantages of NVME protocol SSDs, ensuring fast and accurate data transmission in handling massive data, such as large-scale database read and write, high-definition video rendering output, complex 3D modeling data interaction, etc., avoiding transmission bottlenecks, and meeting the strict requirements of various application scenarios for storage speed and capacity.

3. Intuitive LED indicator light function: Equipped with LED indicator lights is a major highlight of this product, which provides users with an intuitive and convenient way of status monitoring. The indicator light can reflect the working status of the adapter expansion card and the connected SSD in real time. For example, when the SSD is performing data read and write operations, the indicator light will flash, and the flashing frequency can roughly reflect the speed of data transmission; If the indicator light is constantly on, it may indicate that the SSD is idle or ready; If the indicator light goes out or flashes abnormally, users can promptly detect possible hardware connection issues or SSD failures, facilitating quick troubleshooting and problem-solving, ensuring the normal operation of the storage system, and enhancing users' sense of control and confidence in the use of storage devices.

4. Stable and reliable structure and circuit design: The overall adapter expansion card uses high-quality materials and a stable structural design to ensure stability and reliability in long-term, high-intensity working environments. The outer shell is made of high-strength engineering plastic or metal material with good heat dissipation performance (depending on the specific design), which can effectively protect the internal circuit components from external physical interference and help dissipate heat, ensuring the stability of the adapter expansion card during operation. The internal circuit board, through rigorous wiring and optimized circuit design, uses high-quality electronic components to enhance the stability of signal transmission, reduce electromagnetic interference, lay a solid foundation for stable data transmission between SSD and target devices, extend the product's service life, and reduce maintenance costs.

Product Slot and Interface Introduction:

NGFF (M.2) KEY-M slot: As a key component for connecting NVME protocol SSDs, it is designed and manufactured strictly in accordance with the NGFF (M.2) KEY-M standard specifications. The layout of the internal gold finger contact points is reasonable, using high-quality conductive materials and special gold plating treatment, which has excellent conductivity and oxidation resistance, ensuring a stable and reliable electrical connection with the SSD's gold fingers. At the same time, the slot is equipped with a sturdy fixing structure around it, which can tightly fix the SSD in the slot through special buckles or screws (depending on the design of the SSD), preventing the SSD from loosening or shifting due to vibration or collision during device operation, ensuring the stable operation of the SSD and the continuity of data transmission.

PCI-E output interface: The product's PCI-E output interface supports PCI-E 4X, PCI-E 8X, and PCI-E 16X specifications, all of which are designed strictly in accordance with the corresponding PCI-E standards. The gold fingers of the interface are made of high-quality alloy materials and crafted through precise processing techniques, with precise dimensional accuracy and shape tolerances, ensuring precise docking with the corresponding PCI-E slots on the motherboard. The pin layout inside the interface is optimized according to the PCI-E signal transmission specification, with reasonable allocation of power, data, and control signal lines to ensure high-speed and stable data transmission. In addition, the interface shell has good shielding performance, made of metal material and grounded, effectively blocking external electromagnetic interference, ensuring the integrity and accuracy of data transmission, and providing strong support for the efficient operation of the entire storage system.

Transmission advantages:

Performance of NVME protocol: SSDs that support NVME protocol can fully utilize the high-performance advantages of NVME protocol through this adapter expansion card. The NVME protocol has significant improvements in data transmission parallelism, instruction processing efficiency, and delay control compared to traditional storage protocols. In practical applications, whether it is random reading and writing of a large number of small files or sequential reading and writing of extremely large files, it can achieve extremely fast response speed and efficient data transmission, greatly reducing the waiting time for data reading and writing, improving the overall operating efficiency of the system, bringing users a smooth and efficient data storage and access experience, and meeting the strict storage performance requirements of modern data intensive applications.

Advantages of adapting to different bandwidths: With output interfaces that support multiple bandwidths such as PCI-E 4X, PCI-E 8X, and PCI-E 16X, this product can flexibly adapt to the optimal data transmission bandwidth according to actual application scenarios and motherboard interface conditions. When the motherboard supports high bandwidth, such as using PCI-E 16X interface connection, higher data transfer rates can be achieved, fully meeting the extremely high requirements for read and write speed in application scenarios such as professional graphics processing, video editing, etc; When some ordinary motherboards only provide lower bandwidth PCI-E slots, they can still be stably connected through interfaces such as PCI-E 4X to ensure normal data transmission, guarantee the universality and compatibility of the storage system, and avoid affecting the performance of SSDs due to interface mismatch or insufficient bandwidth.

High speed and stable transmission guarantee: With carefully optimized internal circuit design and high-quality interface construction, this adapter expansion card can achieve high-speed and stable data transmission. It has a high theoretical transmission rate, which is sufficient to cope with complex application scenarios such as massive data concurrent read and write in data centers and multitasking data processing in high-performance servers. At the same time, by using high-quality signal transmission lines and advanced signal conditioning technology, signal attenuation and interference are effectively reduced, ensuring the integrity and accuracy of data during transmission. Even in complex electromagnetic environments, stable and reliable data transmission can be guaranteed, avoiding system lag or data loss caused by data transmission problems, and providing users with reliable and efficient storage services.

Usage:

1. Install SSD: First, choose a suitable SSD that supports NVME protocol and has a size of 2230, 2242, 2260, or 2280mm based on your storage needs and budget. Carefully align the golden fingers of the SSD with the NGFF (M.2) KEY-M slot on the expansion card, ensuring correct orientation, and smoothly insert the SSD into the slot until it is fully inserted and firmly secured by the slot's fixing structure, avoiding damage to the SSD or slot caused by forced insertion.

2. Connect the motherboard: Connect the corresponding PCI-E output interface of the expansion card to the slot on the motherboard according to the available PCI-E slot specifications (PCI-E 4X, PCI-E 8X, or PCI-E 16X). When connecting, pay attention to the correct direction of the interface. Gently insert the interface of the expansion card into the motherboard slot, and then press it evenly to ensure that the interface is fully inserted and tightly fitted to prevent poor contact. For some interfaces that require additional fixation, screws or buckles should be used to firmly fix the expansion card according to the design requirements of the motherboard, to ensure that it will not loosen due to vibration during computer operation.

3. Check the status of the indicator lights: After completing the hardware connection and before starting the computer, you can first observe the status of the LED indicator lights on the expansion card. Under normal circumstances, the indicator lights should be off or constantly on (indicating readiness). If there are abnormal flashes or other situations, it is necessary to check the hardware connection again to ensure that there are no loose or short circuits.

4. System recognition and configuration: After starting the computer, the system will automatically recognize the connected SSD during the boot process. Users can perform recognition, partitioning, and formatting operations on the newly connected SSD in the disk management tool of the operating system. Depending on the operating system, the specific steps may vary, but generally speaking, in Windows systems, users can perform corresponding operations through the "Disk Management" tool; In Linux systems, command-line tools such as "fdisk" and "mkfs" can be used to partition and format hard drives. After completing these basic configurations, users can store and read data on SSDs just like using a regular hard drive, and begin to enjoy the convenience brought by the expanded large capacity and high-speed storage. During the operation of the device, users can also observe the status of the LED indicator lights to understand the working condition of the SSD, in order to timely detect and handle possible problems.

Applicable scenarios:

Computer assembly and upgrade: For ordinary personal computer users, if they want to use high-performance NVME protocol SSDs when assembling or upgrading their existing computers, but the PCI-E slot specifications on the motherboard do not match the SSD interface, or if they want to flexibly adjust the SSD connection bandwidth according to different usage needs, this adapter expansion card can come in handy. It can easily adapt SSDs to motherboards, improve computer storage performance, accelerate system startup speed, application loading speed, and file read/write speed, making the computer run more smoothly and meeting the needs of various daily use scenarios such as office, entertainment, and learning.

High performance server applications: In professional fields such as data centers and high-performance servers, there are extremely high requirements for the read and write speed, capacity, and reliability of storage devices. This adapter expansion card supports various sizes of NVME protocol SSDs and PCI-E output interfaces with different bandwidths, providing flexible storage configuration solutions for servers. According to the specific business needs of the server, suitable SSDs can be selected and connected to PCI-E slots with corresponding bandwidth to achieve fast storage and reading of massive data, meeting the strict requirements for storage performance in complex application scenarios such as large-scale database management, virtualization environment operation, graphics processing, etc., and improving the overall performance and operational efficiency of the server.

Professional Workstation Expansion: Personnel engaged in graphic design, video editing, 3D modeling, and other professional work use workstations that require powerful storage performance to support fast reading and writing of massive materials and storage of complex project files. This adapter expansion card can help them connect high-performance NVME protocol SSDs to workstations. By selecting the appropriate PCI-E output interface bandwidth, they can fully leverage the high-speed read-write advantages of SSDs, reduce material loading and rendering waiting time, improve work efficiency, assist professionals in better completing creative projects, and enhance the quality and output speed of work results.

Package contents:

1x nvme SSD to PCI-E Adapter.

2x M2 Screw.

1x screw driver.