Silicon Power 2TB NVMe M.2 PCIe Gen3x4 2280 SSD R/W up to 3,400/3,000MB/s (SU002TBP34A80M28AB)

Best price to TB/performance of the lot. Quite happy with it, not getting spec 3000+ read and write. Macrium Reflect copies slower to same drive than it does to 500mbps Samsung 840 Pro SSD. Copying files to itself however is lightning fast. So far, for gaming and most applications, you wont see any real world performance difference between this and a SATA 3.0 500mb SSD. Once you have a few of these, coping files between drives is much faster, as is hashing and re-checking things such as torrents. No complaints!

Like the price the Read speed is good 544 mb/s the write is a little slow in the 300 mb/s. I worry the life is going to be much shorter than my Western Digital SSD 500 sata.

Ive been using it as my main drive for the last 3 years without any issues, can recommend and its great value for money compared to other options on the market.

Been using this as my OS and gaming drive since last year, and havent had any issues whatsoever. Sure, there are better quality Gen3 NVMe drives, but Im not about to pay an extra 40+ USD on them when, for my use case, I wont even notice a performance difference. If youre needing a new 2TB Gen3 NVMe with DRAM, this is the only one I trust in the 90-110 USD range.

App installed this on June 19th, and it failed today August 23rd. The drive is unrecognized in the system that it was in. Edit: After more testing, this isnt a complete failure. It is what everyone else is seeing: you are running fine, and suddenly the drive is no longer found by the system. It takes a complete power cycle before the BIOS sees the drive again. 2nd Edit: After reading many of these reports, it was evident that this can be caused by BIOS and fast startup. Ultimately, I upgraded BIOS on that ASRock system, but also swapped this drive out to my laptop, which has been running it fine for a month. So, it is NOT dead, but there is some unidentified problem out there with this. For me, I am back to happy.

using it for a dedicated steam game drive, it loads games fast .. is why i got it !!!

This is a really good nvme ssd with really good speeds and boot up. There is a problem with cloning the nvme. You need to have a certain software called NTI Echo. You have a verification code to access the software on their website. I got invalid code that didnt work on the website. This program should just be free. If you are trying to clone just go with the sabrient rocket or something else around the same speed, price and the software is ACTUALLY FREE WOW WHAT A MIRACLE.

I purchased a new, loaded, 2017 iMac at a **great** discount when the 2019 models were introduced. The only thing I didnt like was the speed of the internal 2TB Fusion drive. So I bought this 2TB drive, a Sonnet Echo Express SEL Thunderbolt 3-to-PCIe Expansion Chassis (low profile) and StarTech.com M2 PCIe SSD Adapter (x4 PCIe 3.0 NVMe). I mounted the SSD on the StarTech card, installed the card in the Sonnet chassis, and it was all recognized immediately by the Mac. It took a little while to copy the entire fusion drive to the external drive using the MacOS Disk Utility RESTORE function, but once it was complete it was a totally bootable external drive. I then simply destroyed the fusion configuration and now have those drives available for additional internal storage. I assume that Im not getting 100% of the theoretical speed of the drive due to the Thunderbolt 3 installation, but it is meeting all the requirements to pass all of the BlackMagic 4K video editing speed test requirements. (see photo) Im a very happy camper.

1TB Drive purchased Sept. 2020 Took a gamble on this drive in lieu of some of the negative reviews and couldnt be happier. I cant speak about the legitimacy of the component swaps mentioned in other reviews, but I can say that this drive is meeting and even exceeding the advertised performance. This drives performance is comparable to that of the Samsung 970 Evo and Sabrent Rocket, and typically goes for a much lower price. This drive doesnt get the recognition it deserves, probably because Silicon Power has a reputation for making cheap and low performance SSDs, but this one is an exception. Pros: As fast as the best Gen 3.0 NVMe drives out there. TLC NAND - Faster and more durable than the QLC used in other budget NVMes. DRAM Cache - Greatly improved performance and durability compared to cheap DRAMless SSDs. Cons: Possible quality control issues or inconsistent components used in some drives causing much lower performance. Problem not present on my item.

The whole reason I bought this drive was because of the YouTube installation video I found where the owner specifically installed this drive on an X1 Extreme. The installation was easy, but I will advise any other X1X users out there to make sure they do not strip their screws! The manufacturer used way too much loctite on these screws so I ended up having to use needle nose pliers. Other than that it is running great and the storage is exactly the same as other drives I have used. Similar speeds for a fraction of the cost.