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

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.

Cheap ssd for gaming good value

Not the fastest but havent had one fail have like 6 of these and they are all still going.

I needed some extra storage and M.2 have a small form factor. It was quick to install in an enclosure and my laptop recognized and formatted the new drive with no issues.

A friend of mine, which that title is up for debate currently, ordered a 16 TB SSD for the same price as this drives original MSRP. To his horror I popped it open and showed him the 16 GB MicroSD card inside. I ordered him one of these and a Sabrent m.2 enclosure. Gave it to him last night and hes already happy with it. Easy to use, setup. Not the top tier but for moving a few big files between things without going through the cloud, its makes for a great SSD/jump drive.

This drive replaced my factory drive and has been going strong with no issues.

It was good, I liked it

Had to initiate a return on this after a whole month of utter headache with it only being detected about half the time. I bought it in the first place to replace an SSD that was having issues on boot with being detected by the BIOS (sometimes even shortly after the system booted, leading to a freeze as I was getting ready to start programs up on the desktop!)...and found the issue even worse on it. I reasonably concluded that it was actually the motherboard at fault, no biggie, as I still needed the drive to replace my three smaller drives with a cheap unified fast storage solution that could last for years to come... Except that with a brand new motherboard, the old SSD was always detected, and this...not. I tried everything from disconnecting all other drives to disconnecting the GPU to not using a heatsink I bought to updating the BIOS firmware to messing with obscure BIOS settings...and it was all for naught. My experience is not the norm of course, and supposedly theres basically always a 1 in 50 you get a bad drive (anecdotal evidence from searching though suggests it may be higher for SP hardware...), but I must express frustration about the apparently poor testing done on these drives before they ship out.

For right around $20, this a great performing 256GB M.2 SSD. I plugged this card in, and ran a PC benchmark, and it showed that the NVMe Gen 3x4 SSD was running at 206% efficiency. Id say thats pretty darned good. If you need some additional storage, and want to add an M.2 drive, you cant go wrong here.

Muy bien precio rendimiento, no he tenido problemas de calentamiento, ni de reconocimiento, muy buena compra