💾 Xiwai Low Profile PCI-E 3.0 x1 Lane M.2 NGFF SSD Adapter Card - Boost Nvme AHCI Performance with PCI Express Integration Review

This factory/company has no quality control. The "compression nut" is 1mm larger than the hole it fits into. Don't buy it unless you have a Dremel (or other grinding/sanding tool) and have about 30 minutes to fix it. The board itself is solidly built and looks well made. Screen printing/solder mask is ok. The card is pretty much a direct-through converter. I've seen 800Mbps on a saturated PCIe 3.0 1x slot (it shares a bus with another NVME, so that's to be expected). When connected to a PCIe…

Works great but the screw to connect the ssd to the board is not connected to the adapter nut to screw on the back of the board and screw only to fix the ssd to the adapter and the metal bracket i could not install with the screws provided so i just installed without the bracket which works fine in my case and on the motherboard but the adapter works great and that's all I was worried about since I was able to add another NVME SSD using the latest PCIe x1 strip that was on my motherboard. In…

This is a single band adapter so don't expect much. I have a 512GB internal NVME drive connected to an X370 board. The drive is good for about 3GB/s in the right x4 slot. Thereon. about 415m. Probably a limitation of shared PCI-E lanes. Bought an adapter to use this drive as a custom Call of Duty drive. considering the game is huge. And it does its job quite well. If it doesn't explode later, I can say it's good enough. The only issue I had was that it was a short screw and a stupid mounting…

In general, I got what I signed up for. This is a PCIe Gen 3.0 x1 adapter. So expect all NVMe M.2 SSDs to be significantly slower due to the limitations of the bus itself. The 3.0 x1 generation is rated at just under 1GB/s, including all overhead and ECC, and you get an effective sequential read/write speed of around 800MB/s. But that's not all. The random performance of the Q1D1 is what matters most for everyday use. And this adapter had no impact on this performance at all. I got the same…

Product description states that it is not compatible with B /M drives work notched, but actually, at least for previous Optane drives, they are! Notch B can represent either SATA drives or NVME drives using only 2 PCIe lanes instead of the more common 4 lanes. Shrinking the Optane drive (815p 60GB) from 2 lanes to 1 in my case dropped peak read speeds from over 1200Mbps to around 730Mbps (using the AIDA64 read speed test suite), which is still better than any normal SATA SSD. The writing speed…

The device does exactly what I need: converting an Intel 660p NVME hard drive to a PciExpress x1 -Slot. This is actually rare as most of these adapters are actually PCIExress x4 with a larger connector. This does not work on my specific motherboard (only x1 slot available). My problem is that it came disassembled in a plastic bag. Boxes and instructions on what to do, no. Luckily I already have a few, but otherwise I could see people getting confused on how to use a press-fit brass piece and a…

I'm giving the Xiwai Low Profile PCI-E 3.0 x1 M.2 Adapter Card one star because the brass screw mount to insert into the hole depends on the length of your M.2 drive and it's too big doesn't fit. Although I'm a retired embedded systems developer with years of experience, I actually had a hard time modifying it to make it work. So you have two choices when you need to use this card. One is to use a brass bracket on the back of the card that looks like a nut, but this forces the M.2 drive to…