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

Was very easy to install if you got the new m/b with m.2 socket. Getting rid of unnecessary cables. So far, this has worked great and I even benchmark to see if the claim of its reading and writing were true, sure enough it was. However, my overall score reflected it from my previous use of SSD HD and I thought this would make a bit of difference as SSD did for me from mechanical HD. But nope, barely noticed any speed difference, however, the convenience of not having to hook up wires and make your internal looks of your computer ugly, I would buy this again for another build.

Amazing seq R/W, but the random 4k is only performing average. Installed in an PCIe adapter (Sintech). The price for this NVME from SP is the cheapest among all the other brand which can perform above 3000MB/s. I think the people are classifying these >3000MB/s as higher end NVME, eg 970, BPX, SX8200, S70, SN750, 760P etc, While for those perform ~2000MB/s as lower end NVME, eg P1, EX900 etc. Dont misunderstand me, all these higher/lower-end NVME are in my Amazon wish list. I am reading all the reviews for comparison purpose. Btw, i have ordered the P1 and it is on the way. If P1 can perform better random 4k, i may swap out this SP. UPDATE 17 Apr 2019: After tried the crucial P1, yes the random 4K is better (~10MB/s more). However the heat from P1 make me feel uncomfortable) Idle: SP only 22 degree but P1 is already 30+ degree Heavy load: SP highest is about 44 degree but P1 come to Red zone, 58 degree. All these temperatures are read from Crystaldisk. Both SP and P1 are install at the same adapter with heat sink (from Sintech). So in the end, I remain at SP. The 1st photo attached earlier is CDM reading without BitLocker. 2nd photo is CDM reading with BitLocker, and can see the Temperature behind also.

I ordered 2 of the 1tb model. One shipped UPS and the other shipped through Amazons shipping service. The one I received from UPS was great... speeds as advertised, had a green pcb and chips ONLY on one side of the pcb. The one I received from Amazon shipping was not great, had the same exact sticker on it, but the pcb was black, and had chips on BOTH sides of the pcb, which was problematic because it would have had to slightly bend in order to fit in my Lenovo x1 Extreme Gen 2 due to the m.2 slot being designed to accept drives with chips only on one side. The speeds were also about 1000 MB/s slower on the one with the black pcb. Very strange. I returned the one with the black pcb and kept the one with the green pcb. Not sure what the deal is here but you cant just slap the same label on two entirely different products and expect people not to notice. If you are lucky enough to get the one with the green pcb, you will likely be thrilled as I am.

Popped it into an Eluktronics W650KKL (a Clevo laptop), it was recognized and worked well on Windows for a few days until the laptop would blue screen during gaming or just normal use. It came with a 5-year warranty which I did not take the chance to make good on so Im not sure whether to recommend against the product or not. My bet is that its not worth it. Look elsewhere.

I picked up an old PC that was being discarded and it supported NVMe. I am using it as a ProxMox box to run Home Assistant. The performance of this NVMe allows Home Assistant to be very responsive. So, for only the price of this drive and having a snappy home automation system is money well spent.

**Notice: this is an NVMe (PCIe) drive, NOT a SATA drive** I purchased this drive, along with a compatible USB adapter, to upgrade my laptop. With the adapter, the drive worked just fine. It did seem to produce quite a bit of heat, even when idle, but apparently that is common for M.2 drives. However, it was not until I had properly installed the drive in my laptop that I realized it was not the right format for my system.

Stupid fast! Stupid cheap! Get it!! ***Remember kids, to PROPERLY test your m.2 in CrystalDiskMark, You HAVE to click on Settings and select NVMe SSD! If you dont its going to treat it like an SDD, not an SSD! If you are getting low 2000s thats probably your problem.

The pcie m.2 drive does not conform to the advertised specifications, read 3400 Mb/s and write 3000 Mb/s. Silicon Power replaced the Phison E12 controller with poor quality Realtek RTS5762 controller with a DDR3 DRAM buffer and inferior 3D TLC NAND memory chips were used. Poor performance can be seen in synthetic tests (look the images) but also during real use of the medium. The problem is that customers can be misled and receive a worse product than, for example, they read in older reviews. The situation could be saved by a clear distinction of the new revision. In such a situation, I recommend avoiding the Silicon Power carrier with a wide berth. When I ask Amazon for refund based on warranty they did 15% less of my initial payment. Also I did communicate with Silicon Power about my issue and I was really disappointed by the bad customer service based somewhere in South East Asia. Final tough, never buy again Silicon Power product.

I have a new Lenovo C930 Yoga 2-in-1 laptop. Laptop came with 256GB SSD. They wanted more to upgrade to a 1TB SSD than the cost of this 2TB SSD. Within days of receiving my laptop, I connected this new SSD to a USB C port with a USB adapter and cloned with Macrium. Then I replaced the the system SSD with this one and booted right up. First CrystalDiskMark test showed over 3400MB/S as advertised but only 850MB/S write. Today, about 2 weeks later I ran CrystalDiskMark again and go the same read speed, but 2600MB/S write. Very pleased. However, I will tell you that my last Yoga had a SATA SSD and the feel of Windows 10 is the same with a 500MB/S SSD as a 3400MB/S SSD - at least on a laptop. I suppose if you copied files WITHIN the same drive, you wouldnt notice it is faster, but the feel of Windows is the same. I am very pleased with the 2TB capacity as my last Yoga had a 512GB SSD + a 512GB MicroSD card in USB... And now I dont have to travel around with a something permanently sticking out of (and using) a USB slot.

Lets face it, I bought this because it was so much cheaper than the Samsung. For the money, I think it is a good drive. I have done a lot of benchmarking with this, both synthetic tests and real life tests. It falls a little short in both categories. But the bottom line is, it still beats the pants off my regular SATA SSD. I cant speak for the long term reliability, but I have installed 4 of these and have no problems in the 6 months I have owned them. The smaller NVMes seem to have less cache and less performance than the larger size ones. If you buy a 256GB, it is going to perform worse than the 512GB and 1TB models. The speed degradation is in both peak transfer rate and the sustained performance when copying large files. I got the 512GB one and it will drop off when copying very large files. I am using this to store all my VMs and then load and suspend quite a bit quicker than my standard SATA SSD.