Intel 660p Series M.2 2280 1TB PCIe NVMe 3.0 x4 3D2, QLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) SSDPEKNW010T8X1

By far the best value on the market. Windows 10 boots literally in three seconds, not the 10 minutes of my old computer with a mechanical HD. I bought the 1 terabyte version for my initial build but plan on buying the 2 terabyte version for additional storage. Some drives such as the 970 series from Samsung have a better durability and speed rating, however, durability should never be a factor unless one abuses by swapping vast amounts of data back and forth, and speed is still extraordinarily fast when used normally. I’ve been using the computer to play simple computer games, burning DVDs, and for word processing; all with remarkable loading speeds that far exceed my expectations.

Much improved gaming experiences since the M.2 works best with my MSI chipset and 2081Ti video card.

The GB cost per dollar of this drive is excellent, although the main reason for that is that its QLC technology, which allows for higher capacity on the cheap, but with some drawbacks. Its quite possible this drive will fully wear out before my older MLC and SLC drives, but Intel provides good tools to keep tabs on drive health. All that aside, if this is your first time installing an M.2 drive, youll want to do your homework before you purchase one, as for example, I have an EVGA Z170 motherboard, and in order to activate the M.2 key M socket, it has to be done from BIOS, and doing so will disable SATA ports 4 and 5.

Well I upgraded, or tried to, upgrade from a standard 512gb SSD to this and once I figured out that my brand new motherboard required you to disable some SATA ports, I got it to work. Tested the speeds and it was pretty impressive reading and acceptable writing. Yes there is a cost for lower priced SSDs and write speeds can supper under some heavy loads. The problem came up when I tried to transfer over 400gb of data from the old SSD to this one. It got about two thirds of the way and then stopped working. When I touched to SSD it almost burned my finger. The combination of heavy use and the small surface area of the unit makes this, and to be fair most all M.2 SSDs run hot... VERY hot which I have read can be normal. In my case the unit stopped working and I had to ship it back. Had I to do it over again I would add a small heat sink on it to help dissipate the heat. Yes it runs that hot. I did not take a temperature reading because it stopped working but if something gets so hot that it can burn your skin, well in my book, no matter the supposed design, it runs too hot. They sell cheap M.2 heat sinks on Amazon, just search for one. I highly recommend it for this and all M.2 SSDs if you have the room.

I have been using the Intel 660p M.2, as a storage medium for editing videos (4k), meaning I dump the raw footage onto the 660P using either or even both Resolve and PrPro/AE to edit, without any lag or having to wait hours for footage to load. I will admit some of the more intense graphics may take a tad longer but I suspect that is more due to limitations of the CPU/GPU.

Not very fast, but compatible with almost every motherboard and can be had a good price.

Great value for money vs. the storage space. I was only surprised by one thing. This is listed as a 2 terabyte drive but only 1.9 is available once it is formatted. This bothers me for some reason. Make more storage space upon manufacture so that after formatting it shows as a full 2 terabyte drive. This drive does not come with a support suite like Samsung drives do for health and trim features. If you appreciate that sort of thing, then the Sammy drive might be a better fit for you. I had to manually go out and try and find useful utilities for this drive. Really, there should have been documentation on where to go on the web to grab these tools. This drive is 3 to 4 times faster than my old SATA SSDs and I am noticing a difference in transfer speeds. Im very happy so far but it has only been a couple of weeks since purchase. I dont anticipate any future problems though.

Got this because I didnt have a NVME drive already. My current Samsung 840 EVO (sata) is still great and running just fine, but I wanted something faster and this little drive IS quite a bit faster! Granted there are faster enthusiast NVME drives out there but they also cost enthusiast prices. This should last a while and seems to load my games even faster so yes, it can be used for gaming. The naysayers will point out that once the memory cache fills up you lose performance but all the tests Ive read show this happening on huge file transfers (80GB+), not during gaming. And Ive never run into that before personally so its golden for me and my uses.

Can someone help me? Im getting HDD speeds off this drive, and Idk if Im doing something wrong or its just a bum drive. I installed it today (re-seated it twice to make sure) and flashed bios update the night before. Im getting about 200mb read and 150mb write. Id hate to leave a bad review if its just my fault, but for now, Ill leave it at 3 stars unless someone can help me. I7-6700k 4.00ghz (oc to 4.5) Asus Z170 Pro Gaming Motherboard. Edit: had a lot of supportive friends on facebook but ended up figuring it out myself. I think what finally did it was manually updating the driver and manually partitioning the drive. I went from 300mb read speeds to 2gb, 2x the quoted speed. Write speed is similar, but Im using this as a steam drive, so read speed is my main concern. Actually just found the image that I posted to facebook to reassure my friends. Yeah, I was totally fine with 1gb read and write, but 2x performance? damn. I7-6700k (4.00) running at 4.6 Asus Pro Gaming Z170 MB 16gb Kingston HyperX Savage 3000mhz ddr4 ram Gtx 1080 sc

This is the second SSD drive I have used, the other I could not tell you the make or model (inside a work PC) but after having used a PC with this M.2 SSD, I find it hard and frustrating to use anything else (including the work PC that has an older version/style SSD). The drive is stupid fast! Install progress bars open then quickly snap shut (in a great way) because they complete so fast! I have NEVER seen boot times like I do now! I swear it takes me longer to enter my password than it does to come up to a ready working state! Buy more than just one!!