Review on High-performance NVMe PCIe Adapter: M Key M.2 NVME SSD to PCI-e 3.0 x4 Host 🔌 Controller Expansion Card with Low Profile Bracket - Supports 2230, 2242, 2260, 2280 Sizes for PC Desktop by Stephanie Mann

Bought to speed up old home desktop (AMD A10 CPU - Gigabyte AM3 MB) for photo editing (Lightroom 3 and Photoshop CS4). It has a SATA SSD, but performance was okay. I ran the test on a SATA SSD and showed 350MB/s read and 300MB/s write. I also have a spinning hard drive that maxes out at 120MB/s (read and write). I bought this card and a 250GB Kingston NVME M.2 SSD. This is an old PC. I wanted to keep costs down. The total for both was less than $50. My OS is Win 10 64bit. The card and SSD were easy to put together and I put them in a 16x slot, which is PCIe 3.0. Installation took about 10 minutes. Drivers are not needed as WIN10 loads them automatically. I needed to do a little tweaking in Windows Disk Management and I was good to go. My drive test was 1.6 GB/s read and 1.17 GB/s write, so that's a massive improvement. Since this is an old BIOS; Don't bother changing it to boot from an NVME SSD. The bootable operating system is located on the SATA SSD. I reinstalled Lightroom and the CACHE folder on the new drive and I can now edit my photos with decent performance. I read a review where someone complained about the system freezing in sleep mode. For me there are no questions at all. It was a cheap upgrade that allowed me to get about 2 more years out of my desktop.