Review on 💻 Dual M.2 PCIE Adapter with Advanced Heat Sink Solution for SATA and NVMe SSD – Expand Your PC's Storage Capabilities by Jerardo Phi

Gen 3 x4 PCIE slot. Therefore, although the Yateng board shares the PCIE bus with the nVidia GTX 1070 Super x16 graphics card, the performance of the Samsung 970 EVO PLUS is close to maximum and faster than my 512Gb/s KIOXIA system hard drive (a subsidiary of Toshiba ) . Windows 10 Pro ver. Calculator 2004. The instructions for installing the heatsink on the NVME drive board are clear enough BUT at least for the first installation, the silica gel does not make contact between the back of the heatsink board and the front of the Samsung SSD board. -because the Samsung board is NOT flat! Air gaps are visible between the heatsink, gelpad and the Samsung circuit board - that's thermal radiation - but when everything was assembled and installed into the computer, the Samsung Magician program reports that the board is operating at a normal temperature of 102 to 109 degrees Fahrenheit in a home that is itself between 82 and 86 degrees Fahrenheit. Perhaps over time the gel pad had to absorb water from the air and swell to make contact? The next task was to screw the left end of the Samsung SSD board to the Yateng PCIE board (see 1st attached photo). There is a package of 4 screws in the Yateng box, but no instructions. The bracket in Yateng on the right for connecting SSD NVME connectors lifts the SSD drive off the Yateng PCIE board. So you don't want to screw the SSD board all the way to the left, otherwise you could overload or break the NVME socket on the right, or damage the SSD drive itself. If you look at the Yateng board, you can see TWO knurled knobs that are attached to the board with screws that go through the other side of the board (bottom left of photo). It turns out that if you unscrew the handle, using its jagged edge to support the left end of the SSD board, and then insert and tighten the screw on the other side of the board, the SSD board works very well is installed and supported above the Yateng board, the same height at both ends, Yateng parallel board. I left the second screw/knob combination in place in the lower left corner of the Yateng board. Apparently that's for those who want to fit a second NVME SSD card in the top slot and use it as a (significantly slower) SATA SSD with the included SATA cable etc. The last problem without instructions was attaching the bracket. to the Yateng board (if you open your computer and look at the space that the board fits in, you can tell by the size of the filler bracket that's already there whether you need to use the large or small mounting bracket that came with the board ). Board Yaten). I need to use a larger mount as I have a large computer case. If you look closely at the 2nd photo I've attached, you will see that the mounting bracket attachment points are BEHIND the YATENG board and not on the side where the SSD is mounted. So if you place the bracket behind the board, the two smaller screws included in the bag will perfectly fix the Yateng board between the screw heads and the bracket attachment points. After I inserted the circuit board, closed the case, reconnected all cables, turned on my computer, I went to the Windows 10 Disk Management utility, mapped the drive as a GPT partition table, and formatted the drive as a plain volume with NTFS. Then I downloaded Samsung Magician and ran some performance tests. Ideally, the Samsung drive should have a read/write speed of 3500/3300 MB/s. The performance I got in the PCIE slot wasn't exactly the same (see 3rd attached photo) but close enough for me (I actually moved the mouse from time to time to prevent the screen from draining and I didn't close the normally running system, or, and also, as I mentioned earlier, I have a HUGE graphics card that uses the PCIE bus). The performance is better when the 512GB KIOXA System Disk is directly inserted into the NVME slot on the motherboard, especially 3X faster in random read and write (see 4th photo). compared to the more classic MBR, I found a good article titled "MBR vs. GPT: Which one should you use for your SSD?". on Bill. com website. You can probably find it easily with a search. There are several reasons to choose MBR, but GPT is usually the best choice.