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

Bottom line: Its a nice NVMe at an awesome price from a highly reputable manufacturer. I just wish they had not dropped the ball on implementing Opal and Full-Drive-Encryption. :( What a great price for Intels 660p 2TB NVme! The unit also has a 5 year warranty to support Intels confidence in the QLC. I have had not issues during testing and the unit is getting solid reviews. The only issue I have found, which may not be easily noticed because in Intels specs it says Supports AES-256, is that does NOT mean it supports the ATA Password found in many laptops like the Thinkpads. I found this afer having tested the unit for a few hours. When I booted to BIOS to set the NVMes ATA password, no password could be set. Hmm, thats odd so after some digging I found that while Intel publishes the drive supports AES-256, they do not clearly specify that they support something something called Pyrite which a less secure subset of the more secure Opal Full-Drive-Encryption (FDE) standard. Why oh why did Intel omit Opal FDE when it has been available on so many of their units in the past? I mean come on guys? So for me, on a portable Thinkpad laptop, any SSD or NVMe unit which does not support an ATA drive password and FDE is a show-stopper. What that means is that the Intel 660p does NOT support full HARDWARE encryption in machines that use/support the ATA password to do so. For instance, Lenovo Thinkpads have had ATA HDD passwords for a very, very long time but when this unit is installed, the familiar ATA HDD password in the BIOS is not available. So if the NVMe is removed from the machine and you do not have bitlocker fully enabled, then the drive can be compromised. Im not a happy camper because I specifically checked for the AES-256. What I assumed is that meant it also supported the ATA password used for encryption and it does not. I just didnt read the fine print. IDK if Intel will eventually enable this via the firmware - that seems doubtful as are running custom firmware on these devices. The reason I derated the 2nd star is the software application Intel has released to support the 660p (and other models) seems quite lacking when compared to things like Samsung Magician which Ive also used. Peace.

I purchased this 2 TB drive with the primary purpose of turning it into a speedy external storage drive . I chose Intel because it is a brand that I trust for reliability. It pairs very well with the Sabrent USB 3.1 external enclosure, which is also sold on Amazon for about 50 USD, as at the time of writing . To create a speedy external 2 TB drive combo at USD 250 in total is a fantastic deal. Footnote: I purchased this drive at the end of May 2019 from. Amazon directly . The drive is manufactured in Taiwan with a Manufacturing date of April 2019. There were some reports of other buyers receiving opened boxes with broken seals, I am glad to report that my purchase was completely brand new and unopened.

This isnt the fastest nor does it have the most write cycles, but i was using a HDD to start with. So for me the speed increase was still pretty great, and for my average use, this will still last longer than i will probably need it to before I eventually upgrade again anyhow. If you are looking to get more space for less $ then this is where it is at, but if you arenplanning on pushing it to its limits with tons of writing and rewriting, then you might want to look elsewhere. Again, this is not the fastest or longest lasting, but it is definitely faster than my old HDD and will last long enough for me to get into upgrade territory and maybe a little beyond that. *Depending on your usage your milage may vary.

I’m giving this 5 stars because of the price. The performance is definitely admirable! However, it’s not as fast as other NVMe drives. Amazing bang for your buck drive, more than double the speeds of 2.5 sata drives, well worth the money! Ugly green! Definitely get a heat spreader. Also, not that any M.2 drives really do, but the cooling on this thing sucks. Under heavy loads you will get throttling. I put a cheap $20 spreader on it and have 0 issues with heat/now this ugly green thing isn’t messing up my black/red board

This is so wrong I just got my stick today, using an m.2 to pcie adapter on my z97 mobo with ****Windows 7******. First of all my system does not recognize this drive at all, I flashed the newest bios but it doesn’t work either. After some digging, MS has released 2 hotfix years ago to add native driver support in nvme in win7. Patches is currently unavailable in MS website, you can download them via 3rd party maybe. KB2990941 and KB3087873 After up to date, my new drive finally shows up to me, I run an ancient crystal disk mark on it, and the results is like emmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I have a laptop(Asus scar ii) installed with a 512g 660p, you guys can compare these results , I just have no idea why it run faster in fossil hardwares.

Very satisfied with this product and the benchmarks one sees on Youtube are spot on. As with any Intel product, compatibility wasnt even a question. Also, the support pages for this on their website is the whole reason to buy this name brand but if that isnt enough the price point was lower than the competition. And personally, I dont even like them as a company because they are too arrogant. LOL But they make a great product and this one shows.

I bought this to replace a smaller evo m.2 that housed my OS. I downloaded the Intel Data Migration Tool off of the Intel site and it was great. Fastest, easiest, cleanest transfer Ive ever done. Plus the software is free as long as you have an Intel drive. If youre worried about the performance of the drive compared to other ssds, dont. It is just as fast as my evo was and because of the extra space, my system is speeding along. I used my second M.2 slot on my MoBo and the whole transfer of my boot drive and files around 220GB barely took 2 minutes. The longest part of switching drives, was turning off my pc to install and uninstall ssds. After I used my pc all day for some work, I transferred all 92GB fallout 4 to it from a much slower sata drive in 2 minutes, watched the read and write speeds and the 660p wasnt breaking a sweat, just waiting for the poor sata SSD to read the files. So I played Fallout 4 for an hour just so I could give the for gaming 5 stars. I forsee no issues with the drive and I will give an update later on down the road as to longevity. I also recommend getting the Intel SSD toolbox to keep the drive trimmed and firmware updated, its another free program on the Intel site. TLDR; Get the drive its fast and big, use free Intel Data Migration Tool to upgrade to this huge M.2.

Installed two of these in my Synology 420+ NAS and working flawlessy.

This is an awesome drive for its price. I used the Sintech adapter to install this drive into an MBP2015, and it worked like a charm. The speed isnt the best on the market, at around 1400MB/s read and 1100~1200MB/s write and I am aware that they achieve this speed by having a small cache and speeds will take a hit if you start moving around big media files, but it provides most of the merits of an NVME drive for a super reasonable price(as of April 2019, the 2TB version is $199.99... and to think I bought my first 256GB Crucial M4 for around $600 where I live!). The reason I took off a star is because very recently they had a driver update, and when I installed the Intel Rapid Storage software, it kinda crashed my drive. Luckily I keep daily backups so I didnt lose any important data, but you might want to keep that in mind and make a backup with whatever software available if you ever update your driver and firmware.

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