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

This is a game changer its my first ssd and my boot times are so fast, my games load so fast I love it. I play a lot of rainbow 6 and so because of ubisoft the game crashes a bit sometimes. Im usually able to close the game and boot it back up in time for the next round of r6 so I dont screw my team over. Windows loads in fast my games load fast, if you havent already get an ssd. I got the 2tb one and I dont think Ill come close to filling it but with games being close to 100gb nowadays maybe I will still tho, highly recommend this ssd if youre gaming.

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

Its pretty easy to install but it comes with no screws, it uses the same screws as a hard drive caddy (at least for my laptop). It definitely makes games load faster but one drawback (and the main reason for cheap price) is that when dealing with files over 50GB this slows down drastically (110-130MB/s). However this wont affect you during gaming. You see, manufacturers put the fastest speed with best case scenario on their descriptions. So this can be just as fast as advertised but under specific conditions. Imagine like a car manufacturer saying “up to 40 miles per gallon” it doesnt mean that you will get 40 mpg every single time, it just means that it can happen with the right conditions. I used it on my MSI Raider laptop as well as my Asus GU502. Both use PCIE NVME 3x2 and 3x4.

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 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.

Updated: So I went ahead and bought a pci-e adapter (once I realized I could do that) and put this drive in that instead of my z97 board (which you can see in 1st benchmark limits it to about 800mb/sec). Now it reads at up to 1.6GB/sec and writes up to 1.9GB/sec. Well worth the $16 adapter for that speed. Windows 10 immediately recognized it as the same drive with no drivers or any hassle. adapter I bought: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N78XZCH/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Original: This 2TB drive hits a nice middle ground of speed, size and price per GB (paid 204). I installed it on an older (i7 4790K) system with a Z97 chipset. The MSi (motherboard) website didnt list this m2 drive but it works great despite that. Installation was simple, inserted/screwed it into place, turned on PC and just had to initialize it in the windows disk manager. Thankfully, my main board already had a (tiny!) screw in the m2 slot. Nothing comes with the drive. This drive is limited by my pci-e bandwidth but is still pretty quick. The average write is over 700mb/sec and the average read is around 800mb/sec. Thats quite a bit faster than all my 2.5 SSDs (which reach about 500-530mb/sec) These m2 drives can get hot so I added a $6 m2 heatsink before installing. I removed the Intel sticker from the top and re-stuck it to the back of the drive for better thermal contact. That sticker peels right off once you get it started. Heatsink: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078X8WCY2/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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.

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.

Item was for my son

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.