Worked exactly as I needed it to be and looks nice. I enabled raid mode in my motherboard bios and had no problems with it. The speeds where correct to, none of the drives where slowed down and stable even after attaching it to the card. Also had no problem having Windows recognize it. It fits perfectly and was easy to use. Overall the quality and installation were great.

Very easy install. I will say be careful about how close it can get to your gpu if you mount it like that. There is a green light on it that just shows the drives are working its very noticeable in my dark case.

September 13, 2023If it wasn’t for the difficulty of getting it setup I would have given it a 5 star but hopefully my review will save some of y’all the pain I went through.So the 3002K card feels amazing and you can see where the cost and quality shows. I love and hate the fact they have the 4 green LED lights to let you know if the SSDs are working right. Now the RGB color scheme is off for my PC because of how bright the green lights are. It’s a little sacrifice for 8TB. I’ll take it haha.So I spent days trying to get my 4 2TB Samsung 980 PROs to all work with the SSD Adapter. I’d get all 4 SSDs attach then place the PCI card into the motherboard. Once booted up it’d only show me 3 of the 4 SSDs. I tried swapping them… I even bought another SSD thinking the one I had was broken. I got nowhere…If you have this same issue what you have to do is load in one at a time and format the SSD as a storage device. Take out the PCI card and add the next SSD and format that one too… Do that for every SSD. It was annoying and tedious but worth it. I now have 8TBs of storage on top of the one I already had.July 22, 2024I've come back to say that I have had zero issues with the card and it's still running very well. I'll be ordering another one for my new build at the end of the year ;)

I've been looking for a good solution to replace my massive Dell Poweredge file server with 8 x 4TB 3.5" drives in RAID 5 config, with a more compact and up to date system that draws less power, and these are the answer. I actually purchased 3 x 3001K's by accident, when I meant to only buy 1 of them, but I guess I can find a use for the other two some day. I later decided to get the 3002K as well since I realized that the board I intend to use these on will not support Bifurcation in all the slots, just the first x16 slot. It seems that to get support in the other slots, it takes a very specific setup with the Motherboard and CPU where as the CPU needs to support a certain number of lanes, depending on how many you want to have. All the boards and CPU's that can do this, are VERY pricey, so it seems pointless to go that route, when I can just buy the 3002K and do the same thing nearly.In my case, the goal was to have 2 of these cards running with these low cost   that do work well and have decent speeds for what I need them for, giving me a total of 32TB for now. That, on top of the 28TB my current server has will give me much more space that I have desperately needed. I intend to take those 8 4TB 3.5" drives out of that Dell server, and put them into a with a more and . Sadly, I just now realized that the CPU I purchased it does not have an integrated GPU, so once I get things set up, I will need to remove the temp GPU I use and hope I can use it without any, or with an HDMI dummy dongle so I can remote to it when I need to. All else fails, I can use a USB video adapter.While I wait for all the parts to be received, I tested my first 4 x 4TB NVME drives that I already owned and ran into my first problem. With the 3001K, they all fit into the slots fine as there was a lot of space between the sockets, but could not test it without removing my GPU's in my main desktop. So when I got the 3002K, I started to make the swap, only to realize that the sockets are much closer together, and since I had applied the heat-sinks that come with the NVME drives to help keep the heat down, I found that the drives would not fit onto the 3002K, so with LOTS of patience, I was able to pry up the heat-sinks from 2 of the drives. I needed to be VERY careful as it used a VERY strong adhesive to keep the heat-sink on there, but I was able to get them off. Got the card installed into a Gen 4 riser cable I had to test in my main system, and the card so far is working great.As expected, it's not hardware raid or anything. Each drive acts as a separate drive and using Windows, I was able to wipe them all and make a software raid with them. Clearly the down side to me doing things like this is if 1 drive fails, then anything that the failed drive had will be lost, with no way to recover it. As much as I would love to use mirroring, I just can't see wasting 16TB on that. The data won't change that often, so it should last me a very long time (In terms of the SSD life anyway, not counting some other hardware failure). Maybe once I get all the cards installed, I can make a striped RAID with software, but that means I will need to wait till I have all the drives I want, so I will play that by ear.As for the speeds, when I tested, I was getting the drive's normal speeds at around 3200MBps Read/1800MBps Write which is fine by me. (the numbers from the app in my screenshot may be a little skewed as I had been transferring files that was paused)Aside from the large price tag, and the spacing issue, so far it's working great. Already started to transfer the data off of my file server as a test. Once I get the new system set up, I will be buying four more drives to set up the 2nd card, as well as moving those 8 3.5" drives to the new case, with the RAID controller that the file server uses (Maybe). I may be able to combine the 8 3.5" drives with these to make 1 massive raid, but I would need to find some place to move all the data off the file server to do that, and I really don't have 24+TB of space between all my USB drives and all that lol.

無事にM2 NVMeをさして利用する事ができました。ただ、M2 NVMeの空き間隔が狭く、ヒートシンク付きだと鑑賞し合うかもしれません。

This card works flawlessly as long as your motherboard meets certain prerequisites and you correctly set things up in your motherboard's BIOS settings.Importantly, this card allocates a full 4 PCIe lanes to each SSD, allowing for a maximum of ~4GB/s per SSD for PCIe 3.0 and 8GB/s per SSD for PCIe 4.0. There are many similar cards on amazon but they all seem to give each SSD 2 or even just one PCIe lane, which will compromise performance.So if you're looking to, for example, make an SSD RAID, this is the card for you. I have these installed in a high speed file server with dual 40GbE ethernet links ganged together for a 80GbE pipe to my main workstation (through a 40GbE switch of course) and 4 SSDs using 'just' PCIe 3.0 easily saturate that connection, hitting roughly 9.5GB/s or 95% of the link's theoretical 10GB/s bandwidth. (Note: Doing so requires using NVMe over TCP and using a dual port 40GbE ethernet card that supports TCP offloading like one of Chelsio's terminator series adapters)So I've put this card through its paces. It doesn't really do anything, itself, it is mostly just a break out board, dividing 16 PCIe lanes between for NVMe drives.Because of that, this won't work with just any motherboard. Your motherboard MUST support PCIe bifurcation, which allows you to split up a PCIe slot such that multiple devices/cards/whatever can be plugged into that single slot (using riser cards, or an adapter card like this one). And you MUST correctly set this up in your bios settings. For this card, you'll want to change the slot's bifurcation mode to 4x4x4x4x - which, and this should come as no surprise - tells it to act like four 4x PCIe slots.If your motherboard does not support PCIe bifurcation, then you will only be able to use/see the first drive on this card and won't be able to utilize the other 3 NVMe slots. This is not the card's fault, but a fact of life. You gotta get a fancy motherboard to do fancy things, unfortunately.

レイド組まずに使用　一発毎3,000MB/s弱で使用中　mac2019 intel先ずはホームフォルダー、、システムを気にせず一時ファイル措きたい放題2番、処理データ用3番、アプリケーションの仮想記憶ディスク4番、アプリのカタログファイル置き場容量も都合によりいつでもアップできるので　ありがたいです