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.

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.

By far the best value on the market. Windows 10 boots literally in three seconds, not the 10 minutes of my old computer with a mechanical HD. I bought the 1 terabyte version for my initial build but plan on buying the 2 terabyte version for additional storage. Some drives such as the 970 series from Samsung have a better durability and speed rating, however, durability should never be a factor unless one abuses by swapping vast amounts of data back and forth, and speed is still extraordinarily fast when used normally. I’ve been using the computer to play simple computer games, burning DVDs, and for word processing; all with remarkable loading speeds that far exceed my expectations.

This is the cheapest brand new 2TB NVMe SSD you can buy now. Though the price per GB is really low, the performance penalty of QLC NAND flash really hurts when you run out of the SLC cache. Sometimes it may even dip below 100MB/s. This is a great warehouse for your massive Steam library but I do not recommend using it as your boot drive for Windows. Also the greater the total capacity, the greater amount of SLC cache it have, so I am only comfortable recommending the 2TB version.

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 bought this and have it in a Sabrent external USB enclosure I put it in. The only issue Ive been having (besides USB c not working) is that data transfers burst at great speeds but after like 10 seconds they drop to only 100MB/sec. Probably has something to do with the USB enclosure but could also be because this nvme doesnt use a dram cache I doubt think not sure. Otherwise this is by far the best deal for a 2tb nvme ssd.

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.

Item was for my son

Just died this morning with No warning or blue screen of death. I found that the data disk was not initialized. Earlier this week I checked for firmware updates and ran a manual trim performed a full diagnostic scan and all went well. I was able to reinitialize and format the drive after but now I am tasked with finding the backup for this particular drive. I should consider raid 1 for this ssd but that would require me to buy another. I will not be recommending this ssd to my clients unless the price comes way down so I can buy 2 and mirror them.

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.