I have been lazy and didn't even put on the heatsink properly, so it is without heatsink, but I think my cooling is fine anyway, but the product seems to work great!
Works great
Maybe a Necessity if You Have a USB-C on Front Panel Header because no USB 3.2 GEN1 connector on motherboard. The PCI-E 1X to USB 3.2 GEN1 5Gbps 20pin Front Panel Header allows you to connect the USB-C front panel header to your PCI-E 1X slot
Simple Installation. Comes with a screwdriver and a screw. Truly Plug & Play with Windows 10 if your Motherboard already has support for NVMe. Does not even look for a driver, it just works. Great way to add fast NVMe drives.
- The heat sink plate is WELL CONSTRUCTED and nice and thick! Make sure you mount your M.2 NVMe drives and then place the heat sink adhesive on the drives and then mount and screw the plate in place. - Note: the board has a +12V fan connector on it that is not used in this variant. Riitop sells another that is a fan-based model were a fan (in place of the plate) would normally mount. - The kit comes with a decent screwdriver you need to install the heat sink plate. I have sooo many screwdrivers now because I have ordered similar kits.
Easy to setup. Didn't need to search any extra drivers.
With this device, you don't need a M2 slot! Even on a Gen2 PCIe mother boards you can increase the reads and writes to 1500 mbts by using this board with a fast SSD NVME, some of the Asus chipsets will even support the SSD like the Fx990 has bios support!.
- Very easy to install
Easy to install and worked for me once I got a few glitches on my computer squared away.
Easy install, works as expected.
I upgraded my computer to a Rysen 5 5600 and the expansion slots were not exactly like my old mother board. I needed more SATA drive ports and this gave them to me.
Bought to use in my companies HP Proliant DL380p G8 server for back ups. Its FAST and the xfer speed doesnt fall off after a while like with some other 3.0 controllers. I had to make my own internal power cable for the server. But I knew I would have to do that. It works perfectly. Now my .vhdx transfers go at least 100 times faster than with the server's built in 2.0 ports. Works perfectly with Win Server 2012 R2, it auto installed and worked right off the bat. I will be buying two more of these for my other servers.
I was a little worried that I wouldn't be able to install the correct drivers as I don't have a disc drive on this pc. but windows was able to get it done without me doing anything.
Worked (with only 1 nvme) of course without slot bifurcation. I have a pciex16 2.0 slot but still works fast and I can boot from it as well