Rivo PCI-E Riser PCIe M.2 PCIe SSD to PCIe Express 3.0 x4 Adapter Card - Supports M2 NGFF PCI-e 3.0, 2.0 or 1.0, NVMe or AHCI, M-Key, 2280, 2260, 2242, 2230 Solid State Drives

Good riser that works as it should.

Needed this to help clone an nvme over to another nvme. Worked well, but found it difficult to fit in my case without cutting part of it off.

I installed a 1 TB Samsung 970 EVO M.2 using this Rivo PCIe x4 adapter card on an ASUS P9X79 3.2 GHz motherboard with an i7 3930K processor and it worked great (SYX machine circa 2013). No additional cabling needed, just install the card on the board and put it in an empty PCIe slot. The card is a PCIe x4, but you can use a PCIe x4, x8 or x16 slot. I used an x16 because I didn't have an x4 available. It's pretty straightforward. First install the gold-colored screw through the back of the adapter and secure it with the gold colored nut. The nut serves as a stand-off to provide air flow under the M.2 card. Remember to insert the M.2 into the contacts on the card at an angle, then press it down to the stand-off and secure it with the charcoal colored screw. Install the card in your PCIe slot and you're done with the hardware installation. I can read/write about 450-480MB/s from this drive to an internal Samsung 2TB V-NAND 860 QVO SATA drive I use for backup. Pretty impressive for this old machine...

Worked perfectly for NVMe drive. It came with *two* screws (one installed, one in a bag) so I could also use the spare screw for a different drive.

A quality PCIe card, easily installed and recognized by my system. The NVME drive I put on the card (Samsung 970 Pro) was recognized as a storage drive and cloning using Samsung Magician worked straight away. I was hoping to boot from it but unfortunately, it didn't work for my needs as a boot drive on my Dell Inspiron 3668 running Windows 10 Pro. I had quite a few questions for the seller while trying to enable booting from the card and they were very prompt with their responses, answering within a day usually and sending suggestions and documentation to help me try and fix. The boot issue ultimately seems to have to do with my motherboard and BIOS and not the PCIe card.I ended up getting a different Rivo PCIe card from them, the dual NVME and M.2 SATA card. First time I installed I was able to boot from the SATA part of the drive using a Samsung 860 Evo SATA NVME drive. As expected, the computer starts up and shuts down much faster than when running the stock HDD. Large OS-installed programs run noticibly quicker as well. I'm very happy with the purchase. I wish all Amazon sellers were this easy to work with and hope to have the opportunity to order from Rivo again!

Using to add Samsung 870 Evo NVMe drive to Dell R720 server. Adding NVMe to an old server that didn't originally support it turned it into a powerhouse stand alone host for a virtualization lab. No issues whatsoever with drivers, compatibility, etc... If your OS can support PCIe NVMe drives, this transparently connects M.2 drives to PCIe x4 or larger slot. NOTE DOES NOT SUPPORT SATA M.2 DRIVES. SSD USED WITH THIS MUST BE PCIe

Although the card functions perfectly well, I had to significantly bend the bracket to make the card seat correctly when secured. When the card is seated properly (pressed all the way in) the bracket is about an 1/8 in too short. If you secure the card with a screw, the card pulls out of the motherboard on the right side and sits "crooked".Attached are photos of:The card seated correctly with no screw and the bracket clearly being too short (First and fourth photo)How much I had to bend the bracket to make it work when secures. I used my floorboard as a line reference. (Third photo)The card seated and secured in the PC showing the bend to make it work. (Second photo)Not sure if I just got a bum card and it was an easy fix, just a minor annoyance.