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SABRENT NVMe M.2 SSD to PCIe X16/X8/X4 Adapter Card w/ Aluminum Heatsink

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Amazon has SABRENT NVMe M.2 SSD to PCIe X16/X8/X4 Adapter Card w/ Aluminum Heatsink (EC-PCIE) on sale for $13.49. Shipping is free w/ Prime or on $35+ orders.

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About this product:
  • Supports M.2 NVMe SSDs in sizes 2230 2242 2260 and 2280
  • Requires PCIe x16 x8 or x4 physical slot for installation
  • Includes aluminum heatsink with thermal pad for heat dissipation
  • Tool-free setup using included screws and screwdriver
  • Compatible with Windows 7 through 11 Linux and modern BIOS

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Amazon has SABRENT NVMe M.2 SSD to PCIe X16/X8/X4 Adapter Card w/ Aluminum Heatsink (EC-PCIE) on sale for $13.49. Shipping is free w/ Prime or on $35+ orders.

Thanks to Deal Hunter phoinix for sharing this deal.

About this product:
  • Supports M.2 NVMe SSDs in sizes 2230 2242 2260 and 2280
  • Requires PCIe x16 x8 or x4 physical slot for installation
  • Includes aluminum heatsink with thermal pad for heat dissipation
  • Tool-free setup using included screws and screwdriver
  • Compatible with Windows 7 through 11 Linux and modern BIOS

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Written by jimmytx | Staff
  • About this Store:
  • Additional Information:
    • This offer matches our recent and popular front page deal from July 2026 which earned over 50 thumbs up.
    • Our research indicates that this deal is $4.49 less (25% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices starting from $17.98 at the time of this posting.
    • Please see the original post for additional details and/or view the Wiki and forum comments for further helpful discussion if available.

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Aug 3, 2026 11:38 PM
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kenp1980mAug 3, 2026 11:38 PM
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Working great so far. Got them maybe a week or so ago. I have 2 256gb nvmes. I think they're gen 2, so not super fast. Still a whole lot faster than my 4tb 3.5" hdd. Not nearly as fast as my Samsung 9100 pro 2tb and 1tb but it's nice to have them for VM backups. The drives stay cool enough.
Aug 4, 2026 12:44 AM
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cjsanandreasAug 4, 2026 12:44 AM
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Take note of the PCIe key, this requires a 4x slot or bigger.

Often a motherboard will only have a 1x slot left. You can get a 1x card but you will be bottlenecking your SSD speeds to 2,000 MBps or less
Last edited by cjsanandreas August 3, 2026 at 07:09 PM.
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Note: if you're going to use this in an older computer and use it as the boot disk, it may not be able to see it during boot. To get around that, you can make a bootable usb flash drive with Clover Bootloader software. Just search for "Clover Bootloader Github". The computer boots from Clover Bootloader and then is able to see the boot disk and boot from it.
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Yesterday 3:31 AM
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katapaltesYesterday 3:31 AM
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Quote from Brewedcoffee :
Note: if you're going to use this in an older computer and use it as the boot disk, it may not be able to see it during boot. To get around that, you can make a bootable usb flash drive with Clover Bootloader software. Just search for "Clover Bootloader Github". The computer boots from Clover Bootloader and then is able to see the boot disk and boot from it.
Neat. I always assumed I'd do another BIOS mod for my Ivy Bridge system to boot from NVMe. I had to do that to enable ReBAR.
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Yesterday 9:46 AM
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dealmeister3000Yesterday 9:46 AM
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You can find all manner of these on Aliexpress all day long.

My favorite has dual m.2 slots in a half height configuration and allows stacking a pcie x4 half height card.


Just make sure your motherboard can split PCIE slots.
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bigsketchyburritoYesterday 6:56 PM
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I have a couple of this style - I assume they're the same and Sabrent just put their name on them. There's no circuitry to these things so this makes no sense, but here goes. With linux kernel 7 it's not detected. My other cheapo NVME to PCIe works fine, and this one worked with kernel 5.x (yeah, I got behind on updates). Swap kernels, there it is again, go back to 7 and it times out on boot. Swap NVME drives and the one in this style still doesn't show up. Shows up fine in Windows - actually it's the boot drive. So I don't need it in linux, just weird. No clue why, but thought I'd throw it out there in case anyone else has one not show up.

That said I like this style, retained by the socket so handy if you're swapping drives, stays nice and cool. Bit fiddly to assemble, nothing special, just watch those tiny screws.
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LUNZDEALSToday 7:19 AM
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This is where I'd put my SSD.... if I could buy one!
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Today 8:33 AM
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MungoToday 8:33 AM
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I guess this is how you add an M.2 SSD to a board that doesn't have any M.2 slots built in.
Today 10:42 AM
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outzToday 10:42 AM
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i was wondering how i was gonna fit all these samsung 4tb nvme's in my desktop
Today 1:17 PM
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CleverCreature256Today 1:17 PM
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Quote from LUNZDEALS :
This is where I'd put my SSD.... if I could buy one!
Maybe one can buy the fake model NvME drives they use in advertising?Say for only $100
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Today 1:18 PM
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CleverCreature256Today 1:18 PM
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Quote from outz :
i was wondering how i was gonna fit all these samsung 4tb nvme's in my desktop
You have a 100 PCIe slot motherboard?
Today 2:30 PM
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toneroniToday 2:30 PM
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is there a good usb one I can use to check the ones I have? Kind of annoying to have to open up the case to do so
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burnToday 3:33 PM
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Quote from katapaltes :
Neat. I always assumed I'd do another BIOS mod for my Ivy Bridge system to boot from NVMe. I had to do that to enable ReBAR.
How easy or hard is it to do this BIOS mod?

Last time I checked, it seems you need extra hardware to do this including dumping BIOS for backup / restore?
Today 4:44 PM
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katapaltesToday 4:44 PM
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Quote from burn :
How easy or hard is it to do this BIOS mod? Last time I checked, it seems you need extra hardware to do this including dumping BIOS for backup / restore?
I didn't have to use a flash programmer to do the rebar mod. It helped that my old ivy bridge gigabyte motherboard has dual bios, so I could always fall back in case I blew something up. Intel doesn't release their flash programming software publicly, so you'll have to make the determination whether you trust any software you download. For rebar, I had to modify the bios of course. For simply booting an nvme drive on an old system, I'd probably go with the clover installation on a really old USB drive.
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Today 5:26 PM
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Andrew025Today 5:26 PM
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Quote from Mungo :
I guess this is how you add an M.2 SSD to a board that doesn't have any M.2 slots built in.
Or in my case, I didn't pay attention when buying my mini ITX mobo and realized I only have 1 SSD slot.
Last edited by Andrew025 August 6, 2026 at 10:29 AM.

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