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

It’s a good amount of SSD for small games.

Best Value for money Module. Doesnt come with a screw so keep that in mind. Write and read speeds at as per the claims and I havent faced any problems yet. Few reviewers have commented about heat being an issue. I myself have just seen the module hover somewhere around 61deg cel during intense operations of copying or gaming. Go for it if you are tight on budget. Just FYI Once you install it, you need to enable it from the disk manager by selecting the FS type.

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.

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.

I have this one for 3 weeks now and It has been working very well for me. Very fast windows boot time. I havent checked its temperature under load, Im not worried cuz my motherboard came with M.2 heatsinks but Ive seen people complaining about its temperature without them. Overall a great value M.2 Memory

Theres nothing wrong with it, faster than sata 3 for reads/writes , but their slightly more expensive P34A80 (Gen3) has a lot better read / write performance. like $3 on a 512 , Its worth for an OS Drive.

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.

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.

Ive only had this product two days but the advertised speeds are definitely being held up minus a little slow on the write speeds but it works great for the price and i cant believe my boot time to bios is only 14 seconds and boot to windows is 21 seconds which is not to shabby considering it was about 45 seconds with a SATA SSD. Now all my apps open much faster and its an excellent little boot drive for my PC already have two silicon power 2.5 inch SSDS and now im moving on up to the world of M.2 SSDs and for the price i think im stuck with keeping with Silicon Power. 10/10 highly recommend

Wonderful speed, good price