I recently had to rearrange sata cables to add storage to my nas, and the connectors to the board came off with the cables. I am unable to access my data until I get a replacement

I put this into a mini ITX home server build to add more SATA ports. I had 7 drives and only 4 sata ports on the ITX motherboard, and I needed a GPU in the only PCIE slot for video transcoding, so a traditional PCIE SATA card wasn't an option. The motherboard (Asrock Z690M ITX/AX) has 2 M.2 slots so one is the NVME system boot drive and the other has this SATA adapter slotted in. It worked perfectly the first time with no hassles in setup. I am running 5 HDDs and a SATA SSD off this and all are performing completely normal. I ran a speed test on all 6 drives at the same time and all seem to get the same scores as if they were run alone connected to one of the motherboard SATA ports. So far, all good. The extra PCB backing on this makes it stiff enough to not feel super fragile. (The was a negative comment I saw on some other similar SATA M.2 adapters I looked at so I thought I would mention that this one feels pretty sturdy for a M.2 size board.)Including an M.2 screw and the 6 SATA cables is a nice touch, but I didn't need any of those so I can't speak to the quality of the cables. They look fine though.

I bought this twice because I messed up the first one. I eventually ended messing up the second one too. I had a tremendous trouble with this. It worked until I added a 2nd 4 TB M.2 card. I am using Asus X670E-E motherboard and AMD 7095X3D CPU. I had this M.2 to SATA plugged into M.2_4 (PCIe 4.0) Slot, but where it was working, because I was installing a ASUS Hyper M.2 X16 Gen 4 Card that was too long and the cords of the M.2 to SATA 6 Port. (I am ommiting some stuff). I releocated it to the M.2_2 Slot - I had a lot of trouble getting it to work in there. I added a new M.2 4 TB card to the M.2_4 Slot and turned the computer back on again. After boot the new M.2 4TB showed up and was usuable, but the M.2 to Sata 6 Port stopped working. I tried setting the PCI Link speed of both the new 4 TB M.2 slot and the M.2 to Sata 6 port slot - didn't work. I eventually took out new M.2 4 TB out and that didn't fix the M.2 to Sata 6 Port, swapped the M.2 Sata 6 port, then I eventually got M.2 to Sata 6 Port to run on the first slot I had it on (coulnd't leave it there), I relocated it several places then eventually got it work in the M.2_2 location. Put the new 4 TB M.2 back to where I just had it or the other M.2 Location - it wouldn't show up again. Took out the new 4TB M.2 - it wouldn't show up. At some point I messed up this second M.2 to Sata 6 port. It is VERY fragile! If you try to unattach any SATA cables from it you may end up messing it up! Even when I tried to hold onto the little board with one hand/finger and tried to open the clip up on the Sata connnector - I ended up pulling two wires one time 0 and pulling the board connector out of the board ruining it. I know now that it is best to unattach the M.2 to Sata 6 port board from the M.2 Rizer and gently lift it out - where it is much easier to remove the sata cables. Even then it is easy to mess it up. I am not sure now, but it appears that I CANNOT have more than 1 4TB M.2 on my motherboard and have the M.2 to Sata 6 port work. I was going to mount my new 4 TB M.2 on my Asus Hyper card and not try to use it on the motherboard any more so I could use the M.2. to Sata - but alwas - it is broken now again!Everytime you have move this little board or unplug Sata cables in it you run the risk of ruining it. It is best to unattach the M.2 6 to Sata 6 port from the M.2 rizer before attempting to unplug any Sata Cables! You may not be able to use any of your other M.2 Slots with M.2 cards f you use this, except for one other! So be warned! I was desperate to get this to work - that is why I bought two of them. There is a another brand / design I might try before giving up on it. Unless I can find a different solution. I found that my Asus X670E-E has UsbC Ports that can be made compatible with a Thunderbolt 3 drive! I compared the speed of it with my Dell Precision Laptop Thunderbolt 3 and found it was faster! Even though it wasn't a real Thunderbolt 3 or 4. I was get my Asus Thunderbolt EX 4 replaced / repaired - but I may not really need to use it now - if I decide to not use it anymore, I could get multiport PCIe SATA card to use instead. I am trying to get pack in the best that I can do on my motherboard.

This was the only (reasonable) way to get more SATA ports for my mini-ITX media server, and it works perfectly. The board is reinforced so it doesn't flex under the strain of the cables, and it overall feels like a quality piece. Don't waste your time with any of the cheaper ones, this is what you want.

SATA connectors pulled off the board, not soldered properly. Useless