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Review on IO Crest SI PEX50065 NGFF Black by Joseph Meola

Revainrating 5 out of 5

It's not super heavy and not super easy to install. YOU NEED A SHIELDED SATA CABLE.

This uses a Marvell chipset with a read and write speed of around 3Gb/s, 6Gb/s is indicated but the limitations of PCI-E 2.0 and 1.0 result in a speed by the single PCI lane it uses. Ease of Use: It was easy to install, newer drivers are easy to find online. Installs Windows 10 without driver, you will install driver later to improve performance. Quality: I had to readjust the screws on the back to get it nice and straight and the cable that came with it was defective. I replaced it with a well shielded cable and no more read errors. YOU NEED A SHIELDED SATA CABLE. I was able to connect it to an old Core2Duo machine and use the SSD. The motherboard only had sata2, and besides, it was problematic. I would say this isn't for a beginner, but it's easy to do for anyone with patience and who has built a computer.

Pros
  • handy thing
Cons
  • so far so good