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

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.

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.

This is an awesome drive for its price. I used the Sintech adapter to install this drive into an MBP2015, and it worked like a charm. The speed isnt the best on the market, at around 1400MB/s read and 1100~1200MB/s write and I am aware that they achieve this speed by having a small cache and speeds will take a hit if you start moving around big media files, but it provides most of the merits of an NVME drive for a super reasonable price(as of April 2019, the 2TB version is $199.99... and to think I bought my first 256GB Crucial M4 for around $600 where I live!). The reason I took off a star is because very recently they had a driver update, and when I installed the Intel Rapid Storage software, it kinda crashed my drive. Luckily I keep daily backups so I didnt lose any important data, but you might want to keep that in mind and make a backup with whatever software available if you ever update your driver and firmware.

I installed the 2 TB SSD in place of the OEM 128 GB original to my laptop using a Sintech adapter. I initialized this to APFS and created 2 volumes in a single container. One volume currently runs Mojave 10.14.6 and the other runs Catalina 10.15.1. I have had no problem with either MacOS in this configuration for two months of use. I can now clone my Catalina running desktop to my laptop for travel. And as a benefit I can also boot Mojave to run some older software I still currently need to access. An inexpensive way to breed new life into my older laptop.

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!

These 660p SSDs are excellent both in performance and price. I had to purchase 4 of these and if Id paid what the other higher-end NVMe drives were going for Id have invested a small fortune. Some of these 2T drives are going for $500 +/-. I got all of these drives for about $200, This gave me a fast OS, and about 6T of striped, very fast storage. At least its a huge leap in speed over a 7200 spd platter drive or even a SSD. Granted, as I mentioned above, you can get faster drives but the price almost doubles and you would never realize/notice the spd difference without doing a benchmark.

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.

There isnt a lot to say about it. It comes as advertised, plugged it in and it worked, simple as could be.

No issues with this 1TB SSD so far. Decided to go with this SSD product over other vendors because of the longer warranty.

This drive, while by no means a performance model, is just fine for the daily driver user. The five year warranty is soothing, given the lowish but really just fine 400TBW wear rating. Having said that, if you edit video, move a lot of large files on and off the drive or are using any caching application (say, bcache or in a zfs system), or you are a developer using a lot of virtualization, or database apps, etc, then you might want to go with a drive like the Samsung 970 Pro or even Optane. These are faster, and have in the range of 3x the TBW rating. But are roughly 3x to 10x the cost! If you really need that performance, you already know it. It could even be nice for gaming because you know your money is going into other components, and this is so much faster than hard disks in any case. In general if you are putting this in a notebook, or otherwise have a normal, general purpose use case, then save your money with this bursty QLC ssd that is engineered to be indistinguishable for typical use.