19€95
On opening the box, the equipment appears to be well made (made in china / icebox germany).
Easy installation, adequate instructions (English/German) with pictograms; 4 thermal paste ribbons supplied (2 spare); a large and a small backplate are also supplied.
Once everything is assembled with the radiator, it weighs its weight and gives an impression of robustness.
Installed on a (large) pci3.0 slot: the m2 nvme was directly recognised on my freebsd OS (truenas).
The blue LEDs don't go unnoticed.
Formatting was instantaneous; I didn't do a speed test (500gb disk configured as hot spare on the nas in question).
This is the 1st time I've used this system (pci/nvme card): I'm satisfied and will certainly make a similar purchase again to upgrade my PC tower.
Fast delivery (as usual), thanks LDLC
The manual is brief but the hardware is quality, if you know how to use your eyes and hands no worries, perfect to take advantage of a pci port to boost your m.2 but only long graphics card port not small it does not pass :)
Works correctly on PC (INTEL 1150 socket) but cannot boot from disk because not provided for in bios.
Possible to have booted by an expert capable of modifying the bios to add information and instructions to enable recognition of the PCIe port at start-up.
Does exactly what I bought it for and does it well for very little money. Advised by an LDLC agent on the phone, I'm not disappointed!
Card bought to add storage capacity to a 10 year old (!) machine while maintaining good performance, despite the lack of NVME support on the motherboard (Asus P8Z77-V LX, also bought on LDLC).
Mission accomplished: plugged into an old PCIe 2.0 bus (x16 connector, so compatible with this card in x4), the card still allows the NVMe SSD (PCIe 4.0) to deliver 1300MB/s, double what is produced by another SSD in the same machine that saturates its SATA 6Gbps link. I didn't expect anything better.
Assembling the card with the SSD is a bit tedious, and with the self-adhesive thermal pads you don't want to have to start all over again, so I reread the assembly instructions twelve times (sometimes a bit elliptical), and blessed my set of iFixit precision bits. Once done, it's plug and play, the old BIOS doesn't see anything (normal) but Linux shows the new 'disk' ready to use.
Everything you need is in the kit, and everything is easy to do.
Used with a Samsung 970 EVO+ 2TB, no problem, temperature stable at 39°C in IDLE, 45°C in activity.
My 970EVO+ 500 on the motherboard with a radiator is 46°C in IDLE...
The illustration photos are tiny and bad, the explanation text uses concepts that are not explained, and above all do not correspond with the material in the box: the pads (heat-conducting stickers) are not the colours indicated, there are no screws where the instructions indicate...
If you use the wrong pad, you'll have to sharpen it with a razor blade.
The NVMe mounting screw is dangerously tight.
Buy another model.
The product works even on a PCIe 2.0 slot with an M.2 for PCIe 3.0.
The assembly is rather long but feasible.
The black spot is the holes made on the PCIe bracket that you are supposed to screw onto the card. These holes are very random and out of 2 adapters ordered, one has holes that don't conform and the other has one hole out of two which prevents the bracket from being completely screwed on even if you force it.
The result is that the bracket/cover is not integral with the card. Fortunately, the card is not very heavy.
The rest is not a problem.
After some tweaking in the bios, I can take advantage of the maximum speed of my nvme ssd on an old asus z97 a. It has a m2 port, but it is limited to pcie2, whereas with this adapter you can use pcie3, which allows you to use the ssd to its full potential.
Successfully used on a Z220 laptop under Debian Buster. The boot is not supported directly by the updated bios (EUFI partition
I've been using it for a while now, but I'm not sure if it's a good idea to add an NVME port to a motherboard that doesn't have one... My SSD doesn't get very hot thanks to the heat sinks, and the case doesn't get too hot either.
I bought this ICY BOX IB-PCI214M2-HSL to add an M.2 port for an NVMe disk that I had originally bought for another PC, but as I changed this disk for a faster one, it no longer served me, so I bought this card to install it in my server or one of the SAS disks that was defective, I gained in speed, the only drawback is that the motherboard does not take the M.2 The only downside is that the motherboard does not support M.2 natively, but Windows recognises this without any problem, as this is for a games server and there are fast disk accesses, I recommend boosting disk accesses, even on older PCs, as software and games will start up faster, beware, you need a PCI-Express port in 4x or more all the same, for my server it does not use a 16x graphics card, so there is no problem (my graphics card is a 1X that I bought from LDLC a while ago).
Sober, simple, impeccable quality. Performance as I expected. The heat sink is very efficient. My SSD stays cool in all circumstances.
I took this component to add an extra NVME drive to my tower for games (Cyberpunk, AC, Watchdogs etc..) and my VMs. I did not notice any loss of read and write capacity expected.
The disk I added is well recognized as a disk by the system and by the bios.
I received the box with everything I needed to install the disk. I recommend you to check if your PCI slot is adapted and that the interface is the one you want.
Faster than my M.2 ssd, quick and easy assembly.
The thermal pitches are provided for different ssd types, the card accepts ssd of different lengths
I just regret the blue LEDs, I would have liked to be able to disable them.
With this high temperature, my SSD (WD black 256GB) was reaching 67°C on the M2 Nvme slot of my motherboard (AsRock A88M-G/3.1). Stuck under the graphics card, it was not cooled.
Once installed in the PCI-e Icy Box card, you can immediately see the difference! I no longer exceed 50°C! The installation requires concentration, the explanations not being the clearest... but with the help of the notices already published I avoided the traps (installation of thermal pads...) and everything went well. The result is worth the investment!
Because I made a mistake and didn't realise that my PC was too old to have the right connections
I have to say that I am a bit disappointed with this product, as it is a very good product, but I have to say that it is not a good product.
I'm not sure how to install the screw on the end of the SSD, it's not well documented, the two little nuts are not very easy to install, I had a hard time finding out how to place them.
I paired it with my new 660p 1TO and compared it to the 660p tests it's all good = no performance loss.
Quite easy to set up, just don't rush and choose the right thermal pads (2 thicknesses)
The blue LEDs don't go out which is a problem for me in a red and black themed box but it probably won't be a problem for most people.
I have to admit that there are three noctuas in front of it, but my PC recognises it straight away with the 1TB NVME in it, and with a PCI socket the SSD with this system is faster than a simple M2 socket.
I don't regret it ^^
