Review on 💻 SABRENT NVMe M.2 SSD PCIe Card with Heat Sink (EC-PCIE) by Jeff Kersey

I bought this unit to add an NVME drive to an older motherboard that didn't have an onboard M2 slot. Pros: - Great price and very low profile to fit even the smallest mini ITX TV box. I tried this. Cons: - It definitely doesn't support double-sided SSDs - The thermal design is inefficient. While the front of the SSD contacts the TIM and then the large external heatsink, the bottom of the SSD has the TIM's pad on the PCB. and then place another tim between the board and the outer shell. Some of the solutions I've used before have a thin metal shell that attaches to the heatsink directly from the back of the SSD, rather than through the PCB, which acts as an insulator. The edge of the card supports 16x PCIE slot locking mechanism. if your board has it. Since the lock is only one edge of the card, it's possible that if the computer is dropped it will cause the SSD to fail. PCs don't usually get thrown around, but my little TV boxes got bumped/dropped accidentally, so it's possible. This problem is not unique to Sarbent's solution, and other vendors are having the same problem (except those with a full PCIE mounting bracket). It would be great if the mounting screws were a bit bigger. They are about the size of the screws on a pair of glasses.