Review on EXPLOMOS NGFF Adapter Power Cable by Noah Smith

Very inspirational! About a year and a half ago I built my own PC on Ncase M1 V5. i7 8700k overclocked to 5.0GHz, 32GB overclocked RAM, 1080ti SC2 from EVGA, Samsung 960 Pro 1TB m.2 NVME SSD and it worked great! vst synths in crazy resolution with tons of polyphony. All my music software with USB audio interface worked great on it. Second, it was used as a gaming monster, which was a lot of fun thanks to its fast CPU and insane 1080ti GPU. I liked it. My main computer at the music studio was a Mac and it eventually broke. I could no longer play mixes smoothly. All of my $3,000 audio interfaces and external DSP cards for audio mixing are Firewire-based devices from Universal Audio, the audio interface is the Firewire Apollo. So there's no way I can run all my hardware on my Mac and have a blazing fast PC without FireWire ports. I didn't want to sacrifice GPU performance, and I didn't want to sacrifice NCase's small form factor either. M1 ITX case, so I bought a Sonnet Allegro Firewire card, this m.2 to PCI-e adapter and some PCI-e ribbon extension cables. Spent today figuring out how to stuff everything in there! I had to remove one of the two fans that were bringing air through the bottom of the case (who knows how much they did anyway), but it all the damn thing worked! Luckily, the Asus ROG Strix z270-ITX motherboard has an additional m.2 SSD slot on the bottom of the board, so I just moved the SSD from the top slot there. The power cord for the peripherals and the tape routing were a real headache, but it all fits and works. So for those who don't want to give up the nice little form factor Ncase M1, but still want to add an extra PCI-e card to their computer for other purposes, which in my case were older Firewire peripheral add-ons, you're going with this one adapter you can do this via the m.2 slot on the top of the board! I did a lot of research before making it, but I still couldn't believe when everything worked. Thanks very much!