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

I use this as my OS bot disk, but only part of it. the rest is partitioned to work alongside my other drives as extra space. this this is fast and boot time is awesome. PC boots in 4-5 seconds. for the price per gig, this drive is a good deal, even though it changes from time to time, which pisses me off as at times it will increase out of nowhere, but I digress. since it is intel based, you can use it with the migrating software on the intel website to migrate your data and/or OS over to it. Gaming wise, If you are a modder, this drive is good for loading and deploying mods to games fast. the drive has one large tooth and one small tooth, so itll fit inside the slots with only one groove, NOT 2. make sure you check that out before buying for compatibility reasons.

I own several of these drives and they all are much faster than my old 2.5 SATA SSDs. These M.2 drives reside directly on the PCIe bus and are 4-5x faster than typical SATA SSDs. The Intel drives are also a good alternative to the much more expensive Samsung M.2 SSDs such as the 970 EVO lineup. The performance, compatibility and reliability are comparable for less money. In fact, Im now considering replacing the 256GB Samsung 970 EVO thats in my HP Pavilion Gaming laptop with an Intel 1TB 660P which would quadruple the storage capacity with basically the same performance.

I bought the 2TB model. The installation was simple; just make sure your board has the right M-Key M2 slot. I just turned off the computer, put this drive in, booted up, and went to the computer management portion in Windows to partition and format it. It was a very easy and fast process. It should be noted this drive uses QLC memory, which is the worst and cheapest. If you are doing a database workload or will utilize heavy writes, like writing 200GB+ files regularly, you wont be happy. If you plan to use this as a drive to store applications such as games, youll be quite happy. This drive has a decently sized SLC cache, so as long as the file writes dont get large and frequent, itll make the drive overall fast enough; by that I mean 2GB/s or very close to it. If the writes are large and frequent, this drive will be slow. If that is your workload...pay for it with an appropriate drive. My use case is a drive to store all of my games. With many being over 50GB now, you need a big drive if you have lots of games like I do. For this purpose, the drive is outstanding in terms of value. It delivers great performance in the use case of reading all those textures and feeding the RAM and CPU. If you want to use this as a boot drive, you can. It will work well in this case, but there are better options if you want outstanding performance. Still, this is a big upgrade if youre using a magnetic disk or old SSD. As to the durability of QLC, if your use case is application storage, this really shouldnt be anything to worry about. Unless youre doing very high write workloads, the SSD will last a long time. I have a 10 year old Intel SSD, and the Intel tool says it is only 10% through its life, and I used that as an OS drive for many many years.

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.

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.

Installed easily, you do have to go in and reformat it for your computer to recognize it. It is fast, I bought it primarily to hold only my games, sure, there are faster ones out there but I promise you will not get a faster frame rate with a faster SSD. This one has more then enough speed for gaming and its the best deal right now for a 2TB SSD. I will be purchasing another one or maybe two 2tb on black Friday. If you do decide to get ANY SSD be sure to leave 25% of the drive free, at the least or you will big it down dramatically. So if you have a 2tb drive, only use 1.5tb of space, at the most. Other then that, this is a great drive, I will purchase a couple more in the future as they get cheaper.

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.

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.

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.

The GB cost per dollar of this drive is excellent, although the main reason for that is that its QLC technology, which allows for higher capacity on the cheap, but with some drawbacks. Its quite possible this drive will fully wear out before my older MLC and SLC drives, but Intel provides good tools to keep tabs on drive health. All that aside, if this is your first time installing an M.2 drive, youll want to do your homework before you purchase one, as for example, I have an EVGA Z170 motherboard, and in order to activate the M.2 key M socket, it has to be done from BIOS, and doing so will disable SATA ports 4 and 5.