M.2 (NGFF) NVME SSD to M2 A/E Key WiFi Port with 20cm Cable

I bought this to use as an adapter in a laptop with a wifi socket but the main HD was soldered to the board and not upgradable. I use a USB wifi adapter and the adapter inside has gone from 128GB to 1TB! great stuff.

Used to convert the E-keyed M.2 slot (which usually hosts the WiFi/bluetooth card) inside the Lenovo ThinkCentre M630e Tiny into an M-key slot to take an additional NVMe SSD. Worked perfectly and the BIOS/UEFI picked up the drive with no problems.

A great idea, but unfortunately, this doesn't work with Dell Optiplex 7070 SFF PCs.

I had lots of doubts as to whether this would work in a Dell OptiPlex 5060 Micro Desktop because the only literature available stated that the M.2 WLAN slot was only for WiFi and Bluetooth. I verified visually that it is an E-key slot. The description on this adapter says it will work for an E-key slot only if the SSD is NVMe. It also requires a PCIe lane in the slot, which I was not able to verify. The only M.2 SSDs I had are SATA, so I bought a cheap Samsung PM991 M.2 NVMe SSD to go with this adapter. I assembled the adapter and NVMe SSD and the UEFI recognized it on the first boot. I installed Windows 10 from USB as a test and everything worked perfectly. Now I have 2 SSDs in my Dell Micro Desktop. (3 are installable if I use the SATA port.) Now the obvious question: Why would I want this? I'm setting this PC up as a VMware ESXi host. Using all 3 native storage slots allows me to use the slowest SSD (the one using this adapter) as boot, scratch, and coredump; the SATA port for a hard drive for a local vSAN capacity tier; and the fastest M.2 SATA SSD in the M.2 SSD slot as a local vSAN caching tier, without having to disable USB Arbitrator and use slower USB storage.

Usato con adattatore *** pcie x4 to m.2 key "M" *** insieme ad una GPU con alimentatore dedicato, su un laptop dotato di attacco key A+E. Perfetto.

It transformed my older GB-BACE-3000 mini compact PC kit (SBC) (equiped only with m.2 a+e key slot) into *fast* fanless personal home cloud server in minutes. Works flawlessly and with no problems with new m.2 SSD NVMe 3D only-m key slot drive. I didn't notice any performance degradation in disk i/o. Great adapter - great product. More than satisfied. (The delivery was also fast, it arrived before schedule.) I just don't understand why the vendor states that it only works with Windows 10 (for use with NVMe drives). Debian with linux kernel 4 recognized my NVMe drive instantly.

Used this to go from the M.2 slot to Oculink. Its dirty but works.

Only issue is the fact that ribbon cable faces forward for some reason- having it face backwards would be much better.