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

I bought a MacBook Air (early 2015 model) with just 128gb of memory. I finally to a point where that just wasnt enough. I combined this with Sintech NGFF M.2 nVME SSD Adapter Card (the long one, not the short one), and the combination works great. I had a Time Machine backup, and between it and a flashdrive with an iOS installer I was back up again in an hour or two (it only took about ten minutes to swap out the drive; the rest was all reinstalling the iOS and Time Machine backup). So... for less that $100, my MacBook Air has a new lease on life.

This drive, while by no means a performance model, is just fine for the daily driver user. The five year warranty is soothing, given the lowish but really just fine 400TBW wear rating. Having said that, if you edit video, move a lot of large files on and off the drive or are using any caching application (say, bcache or in a zfs system), or you are a developer using a lot of virtualization, or database apps, etc, then you might want to go with a drive like the Samsung 970 Pro or even Optane. These are faster, and have in the range of 3x the TBW rating. But are roughly 3x to 10x the cost! If you really need that performance, you already know it. It could even be nice for gaming because you know your money is going into other components, and this is so much faster than hard disks in any case. In general if you are putting this in a notebook, or otherwise have a normal, general purpose use case, then save your money with this bursty QLC ssd that is engineered to be indistinguishable for typical use.

This drive is good however it may not work with some systems like HP all in ones with an AMD processor. It did not work, so I had to use a different brand that did work. But not a total loss because I purchased a NVME enclosure so I can still use it as an external drive and it does work quite well. If you have an Intel system I would recommend this drive and you cant beat the price. AMD systems are quite picky on certain hardware, that is one thing Carey Holzman stated and he is correct. If you plan to use this as an external drive I would still recommend.

If youre wondering why this is comparably cheap compared to other M.2 SSDs, there are a couple very good reasons. First is that it uses quad level cell nand, which is the slowest version of MLC memory and has the lowest write endurance limit, meaning its slower when copying very large files and has a much shorter lifespan than SSDs with other memory types. Its not like theyve stated otherwise though, and for anyone not constantly copying large files it shouldnt make a difference and would probably be worth the value. Second and biggest reason is that youre probably buying used through amazon. I can see other reviewers saying the same thing, but when it arrived I noticed that the factory seal had been peeled off and badly pasted back on. The fact that theyre selling used or refurbished SSDs as new probably isnt strictly legal, but I guess Im a pushover for not wanting to go through the return process so long as it works normally and I dont notice that the product itself has been tampered with. I checked with Intel to make sure the 5-year warranty still applies, and it seems like theres no issue there.

Benchmark-wise, this Intel SSD performs decent -- about 1900 MB/s for both read & write. Real world copy test shows about 1100-1300 MB/s for the first 20 or 30 seconds, then it slows down to anywhere from 100 - 350 MB/s. I dont know if its throttling due to temperature or not, but it cannot sustain that 1000+ MB/sec write throughput. Temperature idles around 34-deg C and gets up to 50-deg C during heavy write operations. For the price, it still an excellent buy.

When you dont know there are two different interfaces, you assume all SSD drives plug in the same way. The PCI drives use a different interface than SATA. Once you know that, they are clearly marked. Before you know that, it is easy to miss. I bought this one based on the reviews, that it was not quite as good as more expensive drives, but well worth the money for what it does. Now I also know I needed a SATA drive, not a PCI drive.

I purchased this little gem to replace the SSD in my Predator Helios 300. The 256 GB drive was just a little too small for my liking and I was constantly swapping games to and from the mechanical storage so Id have fast loading for whatever I was playing at the time. I needed more storage on my SSD. Enter the Crucial MX500. Good speed, good reliability, and at a reasonable price. I was ready to hit buy, then I saw the Intel 660p was on sale for the same price. A faster drive, with 12 GB more storage. I figured, why not... and have been happy since. I think this is a great product for a great price. If you can nab it on sale, go for it. Youll be happy with it.

It is great for its price and ability to perform with stability, overall the speeds are normal for an nvme SSD, nvme uses the pcie interface so it is faster than a sata, if you want a reliable and budget gaming/editing ssd look no further.

Prior to this SSD drive, I had a SanDisk 960 GB SATA SSD M.2 drive. I am transferring files at ~200-400 MB/s with that drive, but this Intel M.2 NVMe SSD blows it out of the water. I would personally say this is in between the speeds of SATA SSDs and high-end NVMe SSDs since I was getting benchmark speeds of ~ 1.4 GB/s. It was super easy to install on Windows 10 Pro 64 bit OS on an Alienware 17 R3 laptop, and I plan on transferring this drive to a new laptop in the future once the 9th gen Intel processors release to retain data. Keep in mind that this isnt a glorified Samsung Pro series NVMe SSD, but it definitely raises brows amongst the tech community in terms of value and performance. At a rated 200 TB TBW, this NVMe drive will go a long way. Lets say I transferred 10GB of data daily... That means I would be writing 3.65 TB of files a year making this theoretically capable of lasting about 55 years. Realistically, I plan to replace this drive after 5 years of use due to the exponential advancement in tech... In the meantime, this is the best deal you can get from a reliable company in regards to speed, reliability, endurance, and value. Overall, this makes a perfect storage drive for content creators, gamers, or tech enthusiasts looking for value and performance.

So much faster than my SATA SSDs, and cheaper. My Dell XPS 8900 had a spare M.2 slot on the motherboard, so I initially installed there and performance was good. I then bought a $20 PCI card to mount the drive, and thats when the speed went crazy fast (1800 MB/s) compared to 450 MB/s for my Samsung EVO on SATA. Intel has good installation instructions on their website. You have to install Windows 10 from a jump drive before running the disk cloning program.