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

I owned Intel SSDs before, and never had a problem. I trust Intel for it is a good solid company. The Intel site has complete spec, tutorial and all drivers needed, even for old & outdated products. This M.2 SSD came in an Intel box, installed and Intel web site has very good tutorial, how to initialize and format it. My old SSDs after 5 and 7 years still running in my Pentium and i3 PCs.

I purchased this for my wife to increase her SSD storage and purchased it specifically because it was $194 for 2TBs. I wish I would have purchased two. The price was very good and the drive works flawlessly. It is not as fast as an NVME Samsung drive but you know that when you purchase it. For storage, it doesnt matter and has worked great. I have nothing but good things to say about it and would highly recommend it if you can get it at a good price.

Used mainly as a drive for storing resource intensive games. Couldnt be happier with the results. Installed on ASUS H170 board, i7 6700, RTX 2070S. - Load times cut by half or more. Impressive. - Noticeable frame rate increases in nearly all games. - Install was a little goofy. Board was lacking the riser screw to sandwich the end of the card. Had to hunt one down to install. All in all a significant performance bump. Must have for gaming PCs, and great value compared to its performance rivals.

This really increased the speed of my loading times, I am using an older i7 and wanted a slight upgrade for speed and this item was way more speed than expected. It wont make gaming better but as far as load times the difference was phenomenal and very easy to install. I have moderate computer building experience so watch so.e videos to decide if this is something you can handle.

I ultimately bought this to be used as an extra drive for storing some applications and other files on. Gets the job done. If you are interested in buying this item, I would highly suggest researching the technology this device uses to see if it would suit your needs, or if you could go for a cheaper alternative that could last longer with more space but longer load times.

Im putting this review in the spirit of NVMe drives. I dont have any issues with this drive vs. what I expected of it. Works great; highest temp I have seen under heavy operation is 60C. However; if you have a write operation; read tends to get blocked. I cant unpack a 10GB gz tarball while listening to music on the same drive without experiencing (~20 sec) buffering. And that is after I left 500GiB unallocated space as suggested in the comments to give space for caching. From what I understand; this is not a real NVMe drive; but a more superpowered SSD sort of deal; but I am more software rather than hardware person so i dont know how useful or true that statement is. Excellent choice for home folder drive; but I suggest a better performing NVMe for an OS partition. Extreme bang for your buck; I got this when it was on prime and 185$. I would say you should go for better options for 250$; as you can find similar 1TB NVMes around the same price point; but better performance. I would really rate this 10/10 and would buy it again (like 2 times) for the same price. Excellent drive for data storage. Not as fast as advertised though, and has the simultaneous read/write issues; so takes off a star since this is in the nvme department. EDIT: Just thought to mention that I use encryption; and read was not an mp3 but a minimally compressed flac file. So in general; higher load than what average users would expect out of these operations.

So Ive had a 5TB mechanical HDD for a couple years and Im sick of it, wanted to cut the extra wires and slower speed, and move the 5TB HDD to a NAS. But I didnt want to lose the space. So when these got down to less than $200 each, I finally decided to buy two of the Intel 660p 2TB m.2s and RAID0 them. I was worried about there being issues doing this on mainstream platforms, due to no PCIe lanes and only the DMI 3.0 on Intel, but theres no issue. Im not worried about the speed from RAID0, just having a 4TB NVMe SSD, and thats what I got. Its great. I also bought two EK M.2 heatsinks to go with them, and they idle at about 32°C, and only get to about 36°C under load. I no longer need any Sata cables for HDDs or anything, just my two m.2s. Im super glad I did this, but now a week later and the drives are $185 instead of $195. But what can ya do. The drives are great! Good bump in speed over my Intel 750 Ive had for 3 years or so. And I couldnt be happier. Great deal.

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

This item needed to be enabled in my BIOS before it would be recognized and for it to be a boot device I had to shut off FAST BOOT also in BIOS. Once I did that I am very happy with it. It benchmarks almost twice as fast as other SSDs i have in my system. Knocked off one star for lack of documentation that should have come with it regarding BIOS adjustments. Overall I would recommend it and buy it again.

Bought this on recommendation from Tech Deals vid, no regrets. If youre on a budget, not looking for the best of the best or just a regular consumer, this is your go to. It dont have record breaking speeds but it has record breaking price. If you are rolling in cash then by all means grab a 2 TB Samsung 970 Pro Plus. In terms of benchmarks, this is below the top line NVMEs but in real life applications, the realistic performance difference is not noticeable, like a 1 sec slower OS boot time, 2 secs slower game loading or 1 min slower render timing compared to top end NVMEs. Even if youre a heavy user/content creator, why waste all the cash when you could have pumped that into a better gfx card, mobo or cpu. With regards to endurance, for the general consumer and even heavy users its an unnecessary worry. Most likely you wont even hit half the endurance limit after warranty ends. I have SSDs(used as gaming, OS, storage drive) a decade old but not even hitting 30% of the endurance limit. Unless youre a content creator who writes 1tb worth of data daily, it shouldnt be an issue. SATA & M.2 SSDs cost the same with poorer performance, only reason you get these SSDs is cos you dont haven enough PCIE NVME slots. Works great as a boot drive, game drive or storage. Im personally gonna use Intel 660p on all the PCs at home as boot/game drives.