Is there a point in 2.5 inch SATA drive to PCI-E?

[Party_Raccoon]

I bought a 2.5 inch SATA SSD and the guy shipped it with this SATA to PCI-E adapter. Is there any performanece benefit in using it or is it just  the form factor? I rather just leave it connected in my drive bay and give the graphics card as much clearance as posible. Thx for any answers that you can give me.

[Tan3l6]

Short - no

Longer - there should be no difference in performance

[boggy77]

no difference.

[ausham]

Long - maybe.

if your putting it into a older system with sata 1 or 2 and the card is pcie4x sata 3. Like say in a x58 system.
Its also useful if you don’t have any drive bays or want to clear up cables.

[G3R489]

Other than case management there’s not really any point as it will likely run at a similar or if not depending on how good the card is a potentially slower speed.

[porina]

Got an image of it? I'm not sure I've seen one, so I'm wondering if it has SATA to PCIe adapter included, or if it is purely mechanical.

[ausham]

10 minutes ago, G3R489 said:

Other than case management there’s not really any point as it will likely run at a similar or if not depending on how good the card is a potentially slower speed.

The quality of the card is key here. Most of these kind of cards suck and would be worse. But there were a few good ones made. 

[Party_Raccoon]

1 hour ago, porina said:

Got an image of it? I'm not sure I've seen one, so I'm wondering if it has SATA to PCIe adapter included, or if it is purely mechanical.

Searched for it and is only a generic chinese adapter:

[porina]

Just now, Party_Raccoon said:

Searched for it and is only a generic chinese adapter:

Ok, presumably on the side that we can't see there is a chip that does the SATA to PCIe conversion. It is probably a no frills job. Doesn't get you any extra performance but is an option to add a drive if for any reason you don't want to use an existing mobo SATA port, or simply ran out of them.

[Party_Raccoon]

@Tan3l6 @boggy77@G3R489 @ausham @porina Thank you. Now i realize that for my use case this is only e-waste.

[G3R489]

Just now, Party_Raccoon said:

@Tan3l6 @boggy77@G3R489 @ausham @porina Thank you. Now i realize that for my use case this is only e-waste.

No problem, happy to help and good on you for thinking about the environment 

[ausham]

im going to say that card would be slower then your motherboard sata ports.

[porina]

40 minutes ago, ausham said:

im going to say that card would be slower then your motherboard sata ports.

Without testing it we'll never know, but in my past look at lower cost generic SATA adapters, they're ok as long as you don't want to hit lots of drives at the same time on one. A single drive is unlikely to be noticeably different from the mobo.

[ausham]

Im willing to be my life savings that its slower. It’s likely pcie 2.0 1x. And uses a cheap marvel chipset