Is It Any GOOD?

[FairMaiden]

So I recently stumbled upon those adapters that let you connect a regular 2.5 inch ssd to a PCIE port(or msata, or m.2 to the others) on your motherboard , any idea if they are any good? if it is an pcie 3'rd gen will it increase read and write speed? is this a cheap alternative to pcie ssd, I can't find any benchmarks to come to a conclusion. 

[Cracklingice]

The only way to get any performance gain in doing this (and they may not be boot-able) is if your board doesn't support sata 3 or if you're using an m.2 pcie ssd.

[manikyath]

if anything, it'll end up being slower than putting the SSD directly into a sata3 port where it belongs. a lot of the manfuacturers of these adapters (especially the cheaper ones) like to cheap out on the controller used, resulting in very poor performance at best.