🔌 RIITOP NVMe Adapter with Heat Sink - M.2 PCIe SSD to PCI-e Converter Card | 2280/2260/2242/2230 [Upgraded] Review

I had some issues with Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe drives getting very hot without a heatsink on my previous computer (which these drives are notorious for) so when I assembled my new one I have using one of these cards. I use three NVMe drives, so this adapter allows using an additional drive in the onboard slots on the motherboard. The hard drive temperature is 30-35°C when idle and 40-45°C under heavy test load, which is absolutely incredible compared to the predecessor. The speed shows no…

I have this card to move an NVMe SSD from a dedicated M.2 slot on the motherboard to a PCIEx8 slot. The reason was to free up 2 SATA ports shared with the M.2 slot. But the performance of the NVMe SSD has been halved. I placed the RIITOP NVMe adapter in the PCIEx8 slot. 1 PCIEx1 slot is full. I moved the NVMe M.2 back to the original slot. Bought a SATA controller card instead of SATA drives and installed 2 slower NVMe Gen3 SSDs in Raid0/Stripe. yes, there is still a useless RIITOP NVMe…

I set the x16 track here, but it runs at x4 speed. Needless to say, it's fast. A fresh installation of Windows Server 2016 Essentials loads immediately. I didn't add a bunch of launchers to slow it down, but they can reduce it from "instant" to "a split second". My motherboard allows PCI-e boot. I put a Samsung 970 Plus Evo in it, put a silicone adhesive thing on it, unscrewed the top radiator and connected it. I only used the thickest of the three silicone pads. gave, and so far so good. Maybe

Installed internal Sabrent 1TB Rocket NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 SSD in my i7-4770k motherboard with PCI-e x4 slot on Z87 motherboard with this adapter . The graphics card now runs on PCI-e x8 lanes instead of x16, but the Gamers Nexus shows no performance loss in graphics card performance versus the GTX 1070 and I haven't noticed any difference in my games other than faster loading from an SSD. Cooler not installed. which came with an adapter as I didn't want to remove the Sabrent sticker just yet…

Installing an NVMe drive in this adapter and inserting it into the PCIe slot took about 5 minutes. Then the time I spent in the BIOS to make sure my MOBO could see it and then setting it up to use it the way I wanted it took another 5 minutes or so. It was quick and efficient and I had no problems. I wanted to have very fast and sufficient storage space on my machine. So I bought this adapter and two Silicon Power 1TB NVMe drives and used my ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming-ITX/TB3 BIOS to create a…

I got this card to move an NVMe SSD from a dedicated M.2 slot on the motherboard to a PCIEx8 slot. The reason was to free up 2 SATA ports shared with the M.2 slot, but the NVMe SSD output was halved. I placed the RIITOP NVMe adapter in the PCIEx8 slot. i7-11700 processor, Z590 Taichi motherboard, graphics card in PCIEx16 slot, 2 NVMe SSDs in other M.2 slots (3 total) and 1 PCIEx1 slot full. I moved the NVMe M.2 back to the original slot. Bought a SATA controller card instead of SATA drives and…

It is compact and has silicone pads for better heat distribution. The kit comes with 3 silicone pads of 3 different thicknesses and I was wondering what to use and where. I just installed them temporarily to see what I need and where. If my SSD was thinner I think all 3 could be used. I ended up using the thickest at the bottom of my Intel 660p SSD and the thickest middle at the top of the SSD. I tried using the third one from the bottom but I couldn't get the screws to tightly close the…

I bought it because my 2TB 970 Evo Plus reached 70C when connected to m.2 of my motherboard, which is really too much. With this drive installed, my drive reached 61°C and after idling again it dropped to around 57-58°C. Not a bad improvement, but still nothing special. I then moved the card to a slot just below my GPU fans, and it now maxes out at 54C and stays that way even after long benchmarks/gaming sessions (this doesn't affect GPU temperatures of course), so with proper direct cooling…

Long term update: Some technical information ahead. Read on if you're interested, otherwise just take this as a 10/10 confirmation for both thermal management and moving NVMe to a straight-line PCIe CPU cluster, which in most cases will support I/O -Really reduced overhead. general usage criteria and circumstances. My personal unit has maintained a very aggressive usage cycle for my main engine for several years. My SSD temperatures stayed well below safe and cautionary thresholds (basically…