Silicon Power 1TB - NVMe M.2 PCIe Gen3x4 2280 SSD (SP001TBP34A60M28)

Perfect for what its intended for

Pros - More than fast enough for 99% of tasks. If you need a bit more speed they have a higher speed version for ~15% more at time of writing. - High capacity for dollar Cons - One failure at arrival due to CRC error. Possible this made it past QA but more likely damage of some description during shipping. The package was bent but not around the drive, still may have been some deflection which caused issues. Overall I highly recommend this drive. Im currently populating an Asys Hyper M.2 gen 3 card with three of these and one in the faster version for rapid photo editing. It makes a massive difference running the software library and files off a single drive and moving off SATA SSD to these is significant. Even moving from this version to the Silicon Power A80 2TB, which is a touch faster, speeds things up marginally (not enough for most people to notice but when youre loading a library with ~10k photos, 500GB, and the library files to support it theres a difference). Ill be submitting an RMA for the one failed drive but I want to note this is the 12th drive Ive purchased from them and the first failure. Several have been in service over five years. I have NO ISSUES with the brand thus far.

Cheap ssd for gaming good value

This 256GB as my co worker described it is epic and based on the amount of reading you doing from the drive the speed is perfect. Works perfect. Update 11/11/22 There is better drives out there with read/write speed up to 7000MB/s, but this item just at 2,200/1,600MB/s is amazing. I am copying a file at about 10Gb and the transfer takes about just 40seconds. Now this is a big upgrade from the traditional Seagate external drive I had. I cant tell you that it get very hot, but it sure decapitates the heat and everything runs smooth. 256GB with these read/write speed and this cost, cmon, what more can you ask for. I am using this as an external drive and it is working exponentially great accomplishing all task in a blink. No regrets and will sure buy again but looking for bigger size and better speed.

I use this NVME for my backup drive. All of this is through 3.2 USB Port and Cable. I have seen transfer rates reach 5GB a second! Why not install it inside the case? I can easily unplug it from the USB Port to backup another computer. Nice product.

Using as a cache drive in UNRAID. Nothing is overtop of it. And whenever its in use, its hitting 60 degrees Celsius easily before the system has to just pause and wait for it to cool down. I have a heatsink on the way, as it obviously needs it, but I struggle to be optimistic at how much itll help. I have a 120mm fan now leaned on it, and its only made a small difference. I may end up trading it in to get something from a more known (and not cheap) brand if the heatsink doesnt help enough.

For reference, drive D: is the Silicon power, and drive C: is the original Lenovo ssd, with it’s specs to the right. I upgraded the storage on my 1yr old Lenovo Legion 5 Gaming laptop with this affordable drive, and was BLOWN AWAY by the speeds. The OEM drive has a 512mb DRAM cache and is rated for 3500 write/ 2800 read. (Comparable to a 970evo) The SP, despite not having a DRAM cache and being rated at less than 70% of the other drives speed, held right up to it in identical random read/write Benchmark tests and even surpassed it in a single queue read! When transferring files, the SP response time is a bit slower at around 20ms compared to <1ms, but for playing games and running CAD it is unnoticeable. I measured my Forza horizon 4 load times to be about half a second slower, but that was more likely human error than an actual difference. I am more than pleased by the performance of this drive, it’s definitely a slept on choice. If you want large capacity speed for cheap don’t waste money on a Samsung, try this first! Note: it does NOT come with a screw so make sure you have one.

A great expansion for my 11.6” Asus with 64g eMMC. Makes the laptop usable. If only the RAM could be replaced this would be a real road laptop. The only issue is they always assume you’re replacing a drive and never include the screw, leaving you to sort through your collection to find the right size.

I put this in a MacBook Pro 2013 a few months ago with an adapter and it works great to this day.

BEST PRICE ON THE INTERNET AND A GREAT WORKING PRODUCT WITH A 5 YEAR WARRANTY.