one of the ports on my m2 to sata adaptor board died. The board is super flimsy and all 6 ports are loose and wiggly. does anyone have as suggestion for an M2 to sata board that doesnt suck? They all seem to have the same problem.
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I’ve been through this, and they all suck.
I’ve been using an MT1064 - based one with an 8087 connector to save the wear and tear of multiple connectors. It’s definitely a better physical connection, but the performance is abysmal.
What’s you use case here? If you just need more ports for data drives and have a free pcie slot a used SAS HBA cards and use breakout cables to give you a bunch more data ports. These are very durable cards.
mini home server based on an orange pi 5 plus. I have 2 M2 slots available, and I’m trying to use the M2 M-key slot for this. there are no full pcie slots on this board.
What version and how many lanes does the Orange Pi have in that slot?
PCIe 3 x4 on the M-key, PCIE2 x1 on the E-key
I have one installed on a raspberry pi 5 with NVMe adaptor.
Some mainboards have very few PCI-e slots.
I ended up with a similar adapter because the onboard SATA on my board was flaky with optical drives and I rip CDs.
