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

MUCH faster than anticipated at around 3ish GB down, 2ish GB up. Generic PCIE 3.0 x4 adapter in a PCIE 3.0 slot; Asus Maximus VI hero/ z87 chipset. Works great as main boot drive. Actual test images attached

Five times faster than my other (2.5) S.P SSD. (See speed results) But, it only has 1.8 TB of storage capacity.

Performs adequately Great storage

Always cautious when purchasing hardware for Dell computers given their third party compatibility reputation. This Silicon Power 1TB - NVMe M.2 PCIe Gen3x4 2280 SSD works flawlessly in my Dell XPS 15 9560 Laptop, this laptop is 6 years old. Installing and and configuring is fairly easy. I used their recommend Echo software to clone my Sata hard drive with no issues. With new SSD from power off to login screen is less than 25 seconds. Caution Tip: When cloning is finished DISCONNECT or REMOVE your old hard drive before first boot with your new SSD Drive, for some reason booting with 2 bootable drives confuses the Windows Boot Manager in the CMOS.

Works great. No problems at all.

I use this drive as a secondary drive in my desktop, and I use it in my laptop. It works great! It runs cool, but I recommend keeping laptop fans on for extended use.

For the budget price , you cant go wrong with Silicon Power or Team Group. Make sue you check the specification for the TLC not QLC. I choose this since its $1 cheaper than the Team Group ones. For the money, it has the best price to performance. ADATA/XPG is also a good brand too, but seems most of the model are out of stock. I used to buy the Crucial P1/P2 Series, they may have the better performance for the buffer, but when the buffer run out. The speed are extremely slow. All for the QLC. Besides . Crucial P1 has only around 200TBW for 1TB if Im not mistaken. This Silicon Power 512GB has 300TBW, Hugh difference. Though the manufacture claimed the heatsink is not required. You may consider one since on full load, the temperature can go as high as 65c witho ut heatsink. After heatsink , the fully load is about 50c. The heatsink I use is Thermalright TR-M.2 which is more than enough for this SSD

For a medium tier ssd (just barely) this nvme m.2 performs pretty well. It has no heat sink and it’s dram-less hopefully anyone buying knows that, it’s not going to give you the same performance as a 970pro evo. As a drive for games though you’ll have no regrets. Installed this on my midrange pc (b450m) within minutes, I had to pop out the gpu as the location is a bit in there but that’s a mobo thing not the drive. Pretty solid read/write speeds for a gen3 midrange. Not really much else to add aside from understanding what you are buying, it’s a good price for a midtier dram-less ssd, the same from WD or Hynix will run you about $20-$30 more, but it’s still a 3rd gen and you’re getting what you paid for essentially. If you need something with higher TBW, read/write speeds, than please consider a higher tier WD or Samsung or consider a gen4 if your mobo allows it. What it’s good for: Basic file storage/transfer Games Some mid level media editing Huge improvement over any HDD and minimal improvement over sata SSDs What it’s not going to do: Large scale file storage/transfer (meaning it won’t do with the 1tb being constantly rewritten thousands of times abs might have performance issues if constantly full) 4k media editing The ability to cool itself when met with higher temps (100c+) if you buy a heatsink or your mobo came with one it might do slightly better

Very good stuff highly recommend

Good value for money. Wasnt looking for best & fastest SSD just needed something to install OS to and this fit the bill just fine.