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  • austinsguitar - Monday, September 17, 2018 - link

    pretty nice stuff
  • Vorl - Monday, September 17, 2018 - link

    Seems kind of pointless. You give up a 16x slot for something that only uses 4x. If they had made it a card that could take 4 m.2 drives, that would have made much more sense and been cool, but most boards that could give up a full 16x slot without worry are already going to have m.2 slots onboard and not need this.
  • stuffwhy - Monday, September 17, 2018 - link

    It's true, only 4 lanes would be used. Hopefully this adapter is designed to use the lanes properly if plugged into a 16x physical, 4x electrical slot.
  • PeachNCream - Monday, September 17, 2018 - link

    Eh, even the majority of the games I play these days run at max settings on my HD 4000. Thanks to Optimus giving me the choice, I just use the fact that my laptop has the cooling necessary to handle its dGPU as a means to keep fan speed, heat, and system noise down. With Skylake+ iGPUs being lots faster than my old HD 4000, I can see a reason why there are a lot of empty 16x slots out there in the desktop space. We may as well stick SSDs in them since they're otherwise unused.
  • vbigdeli - Monday, September 17, 2018 - link

    No it's not useless..I have two systems with z97 mainboard and they just support M.2 in 1GBPS so I have to use such adapters to take full advatanges of m.2 nvme ssds
  • froheweihnachten - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - link

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  • Death666Angel - Tuesday, September 18, 2018 - link

    I use a generic adapter like this with a x4 NVME slot and a SATA slot in my H87 mainboard which I BIOS modded to boot from NVME drives. Works like a charm in one of the PCIex16 (electrically x4) slots. And I know tons of other non enthusiast motherboards that have physical x16 slots that are wired x4 (either 2.0 or 3,0) and the NVME in there is still faster and more convenient than a SATA drive. Nothing pointless about it, especially since DDR4 prices are high enough to deter me upgrading at the moment, when my CPU performance is good enough.
  • lightningz71 - Monday, September 17, 2018 - link

    While I've been looking at parts like this one, I feel that it misses the point and badly. No M.2 NVME drive is going to use more than 4 lanes on this thing. Why, oh why, did they design it to fully involve a x16 slot? They should have used a shorter connector to enable it to more easily be used on boards that have only x8 slots open. I kind of wish more processors supported bifurcation and they could have made this a two slot M.2 adapter, with one on the low 4 channels, and the next on the second four channels. That would have made much more sense to me.

    This thing better be cheap.
  • dogie - Monday, September 17, 2018 - link

    Who even has an 8x slot? Should have done a 4x slot card.
  • Santoval - Monday, September 17, 2018 - link

    Er, nope, I would never waste 12 PCIe lanes just for better cooling and less/no throttling to my M.2 SSD. Whoever decided on and approved that design at Silverstone must be quite insane. Who would choose to waste a x16 PCIe slot on a single M.2 SSD with no throttling instead of 2 to 4 SSDs, even if they throttled?
    Even if someone cannot afford more than one M.2 SSD it still does not make sense : they could use their M.2 clot along with a heat spreader to reduce (rather than eliminate) throttling, along with maybe a more powerful fan, and they would be left with one free x16 PCIe slot to employ for other uses.
  • Santoval - Monday, September 17, 2018 - link

    edit : M.2 *slot*
  • Death666Angel - Tuesday, September 18, 2018 - link

    The don't insert it in your X16 slot, just use the myriad x4 slots (physically x16) you have on most motherboards. And the adapter I have is x16 physically but even works in open ended PCIe slots that are lower.
    Having 2 or 4 M.2 NVME PCIe SSDs on one of these adapters would either mean the adapter needs a PLX chip to split the lanes (hundreds of dollars) or have the chipset support bifurcation (hundreds of dollars). If you want or need this, plenty of options if you have the dough.
    And considering Silverstone makes a lot of cases, many of which are SFF, this makes perfect sense for them. Sure, it'll cost a premium, but their customers won't care too much, if they are reliable and fit in the aesthetic of the other Silverstone products.
  • us - Monday, September 17, 2018 - link

    Waste of money, the x4 adapters have existed forever and are very cheap ($5-10)
  • Targon - Tuesday, September 18, 2018 - link

    Support for SATA M.2 drives has been around, but NVMe supporting cards are not easy to find.
  • Billy Tallis - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link

    No, PCIe to M.2 type M adapters have been easy to find since before PCIe SSDs started using NVMe. Adapter cards that support M.2 SATA drives are much less common and generally more expensive, because they either need to include a SATA controller chip or a SATA port to be cabled to the motherboard's SATA ports.
  • erinadreno - Tuesday, September 18, 2018 - link

    have bought similar product on aliexpress, cost like $6. There are plenty of small risers on the market, not sure why silverstone has to make another one.

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