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

1tb solid state drive with 600MBps+ read/write. 1/3 the price of the latest generation drives. Its a no brainier for Even the most savvy gamer. Last generation nvme drives are overkill for any consumer application or game. You can save money, receive plenty of usage time out of these 600 series drives. I didnt see any reason to have read/write speed of the latest generation samsung drives since nothing I use requires it and you wont notice if your game loads 2 miliseconds faster. FPS in games arent really impacted by read/write speeds so again save a little cash on the drive and get a better graphics card. If you want to get the latest generation drive to futureproof your system you may want to realize each drive has a limited number or writes to each block. All solid state drives will eventually wear out. The drive may wear out before you have an application that requires the higher speeds you get with the latest generation nvme drive.

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.

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 the 2TB Intel 660p NVMe SSD, new, from Amazon Services, Inc. (not an other seller). Reviews indicate it has an OK buffer size, with SamSung and even HP a little better. However, the price is stellar, and its still faster at any of its speeds than my prior device. I was a little worried because of some claims that their new device was mislabeld. The package I received had the safety tape cut already. I was worried. I inspected closely, and everything was correct. No fingerprints, no damage. When I installed the device, it said power cycles 2, power-on hours 0. Hardware ID is Intel SSDPEKNW020T8, and size is 2 TiB. Now that my concerns were assuaged, I used Macrium to clone. Cloning from my old drive pushed 430GBytes in 45 minutes. Macrium claimed 1.3GB/sec. Swapped the device, and re-enabled BitLocker, reinstalled Steam, etc. So far, performance is great. Its been 3 days, and backups are fast, games load fast, etc. I was on NVMe before, so I didnt expect to notice any difference. I do. Its not as much as the difference from HDD to SSD, but it is like the difference between SATA and NVMe. So, as a reminder, every few years, check performance for the next generation of SSDs. If your system supports it, and you run any demanding workloads (VirtualBox/VMWare, gaming, etc), then consider an upgrade. UPDATE 2020-02-07: the performance is still about the same. 7300-7900 read iops and 9-15k write iops. Bumping up the queue depth brings that into the 30-90k range. Throughput is int eh 1300-1500 range on read, and 790-1700 range on sequential writes.

I must say that Im extremely happy with the price the performance and how easy it was to install it ! I have used two different adapters Sintech NGFF M.2 nVME SSD Adapter Card for Upgrade 2013-2015 Year Macs(Not Fit Early 2013 MacBook Pro) and Cablecc 12+16pin 2014 2015 to M.2 NGFF M-Key SSD Convert Card for A1493 A1502 A1465 A1466 both adapters work perfectly installation is a little bit different especially the way you fix it into the motherboard but no problem with it either I decided to keep the first adapter that I mention it here now. I am a heavy duty user or 3D applications like blender 3.0.1 which makes the machine get hot and so do not Forget to put a heat sink on top of the SSD (QIVYNSRY M.2 Heatsink NVME 2280 SSD Heat Sink Support Single Double Sided M2 SSD Cooling with Thermal Silicone Pads Cooler for Computer PC PS5 PCIE NVME or NGFF SATA M.2 SSD Installation, Black) I also bought extra memory all the way up to 64 GB (OWC 64.0GB (4 x 16GB) PC3-14900 1866MHz DDR3 ECC-R SDRAM Memory Upgrade Kit, ECC Registered, (OWC1866D3R9M64), Compatible with Mac Pro 2013) I also have replaced the main CPU with a 12 core (Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 Twelve-Core Processor 2.7GHz 8.0GT/s 30MB LGA 2011 CPU BX80635E52697V2 (Renewed)) here are the screwdrivers that use to assemble and disassemble my Mac Pro Torx Screwdriver Set,TEKPREM 8 in 1 Security Torx Screwdrivers with T3 T4 T5 T6 T7 T8 T9 T10 Torx Bit,Complete Torx Repair Kit for Mac Mini,iMac,Xbox Controller,PS3,PS4,Computer and Pocket Knife also do not forget Corsair XTM50 High Performance Thermal Compound Paste | Ultra-Low Thermal Impedance CPU/GPU | 5 Grams | w/applicator to Bond the SSD with it and afterBond the SSD with with the adapter all these items where very cheap at the time that I purchase everything but now the price is a little higher. But either way this update totally makes sense compared to what you would had spend at the time of buying the computer with this configuration at Apple when the computer was available, its totally worth it!. All the components put together makes a very powerful computer. I recommend doing the upgrade it work flawlessly ! I add the descriptions of the components that I also got at Amazon I am very happy Cheers !

Installed this on a gigabyte B450M dsh AM4 with an RX580 radeon 8gb gts xxx video card and Ryzen 5 2600x. First new build in a few years, with 32 gb ram, and it seems like an instant startup! Less than 10 seconds from bios blankscreen! Installed windows 10 in less than 10 minutes, so the transfer speeds on this are great! Normally it takes 30 minutes to install a game, but with this, the game installs less then 15 same game! Just amazing speed!

Updeat - 2 yeas of use and not one problem. Moved to external device and then to a new computer and it still works perfectly. Works well so far. Write and read speeds are good for such an inexpensive NVME. Speed drops after the first few GBs to a steady 600 MBS. Tested on old 990FX with FX8370 cpu in a Pcie 2.0x4 slot. If I remember to update this rating and it is still working in six months it will get all five stars. Compared to regular SSDs this is a great bargain.

I use this drive for data storage and a Samsung 970 EVO 1TB for my C drive windows 10 and programs. I have hot swapable drive bays I use my old Western Digital mechanical drives in when needed for back up and store old pictures etc. So no drive noises at all during normal use! Less power used, less heat. Current SSD drives temp both at 97 degrees F (no ssd fans); case interior 95 degrees. Computer boot-up time is about 10 - 13 seconds and turns off in 4 seconds. VERY little noise, only the fans which are almost unnoticeable. Motherboard: Gigabyte Z390 AORUS PRO (Intel LGA1151/Z390/ATX/2xM.2)

I just installed one of these in my sons computer to get him off of an 512GB SSD. I was pleasantly surprised by how quickly Win 10 loaded and ran, pretty much the same as my faster nvme drive. My Samsung 970 EVO may be faster on paper, but at half the price, this is good enough to be recommended for everyone. I find 1TB to be the sweet spot as I have yet to fill it up on my computer. I bought another for my other sons machine. Get them while they are still around $120. And yes, I had to root around in my screw bag for the stupid little screw to anchor it down, heh.

This drive is outstanding for general everyday use. I use it to store my Steam library, movie collection, photos, and a lot of archival backups and that sort of thing so it has worked great for me for the past 3 months. I bought this drive because my new laptop doesnt have slot for big 2.5 mechanical drives and instead only has 2 NVMe slots. I chose a fast SLC NVMe SSD (Samsung 970 Evo) as my primary boot drive to get stupid-fast speeds for my operating system + apps and then chose this Intel 660p SSD as my storage drive where I keep the rest of my bigger files that dont necessarily need to be accessed ludicrously-fast. Dont get me wrong, this is still a very speedy drive and its served me very well and I have no complaints, but remember that youre buying this to get a huge amount of storage at a really good price (for NVMe SSDs anyways). Other 2TB NVMe SSDs can be twice as expensive. The value is the amount of storage, not the performance or longevity. Thats the benefit of this drive. You will get pretty good read and write speeds, especially with relatively smaller files (a couple GB) but once the SLC cache fills up performance will dip substantially (see screenshots). Writing files that are several hundred MB or a couple GB usually goes very fast, but bigger files will slow down after the initial burst. This drive can be great, but just consider how youll be using this. You can probably use it as your boot drive and install Windows just fine, but thats not the ideal use case of this drive in my opinion.