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

Like others have said, this isnt a huge upgrade from a normal 2.5 SSD. The numbers in the specs makes it look like its 3-4x faster, but its really not. I upgraded from a 2.5 and it is faster, but its more noticeable when copying files or moving files around. Normal world use like playing games or running programs in general is faster, but not by much. I still recommend one, especially for a custom computer. It saves me space in my tower as its 1 less power cord connecting to my PSU. Im using a cheap aluminum heatsink I found here - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078X8WCY2/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1. My normal temps are about 35C and after playing an hour or two of a game its about 45C which is definitely not bad. Installed Linux(Ubuntu variant) on it and everything works flawless.

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.

I have purchased 3 of these now, two for pc and one for a laptop. The longest in service so far is one and a half years and I have never had any problems in any way. As seen in the photo, crystalmark shows 3.2 gb/s read and a fabulous 2.8 gb/s write. If you are not familiar with those numbers, that is basically saying it can read an entire DVD in 1.5 seconds and write the information on the NVMe M.2 in less than 2 seconds. For practical reasons, you know that box that shows up on your computer when you are transferring files or pictures from one place to the other? If you have a standard Hard Disk drive and it takes 30 seconds for that transfer to take place, with this M.2 the transfer is over in under one second which is not enough time for the transfer box to even open on the computer screen. Blazing fast. At a price that is comparable to a regular SSD that is limited to 650 mb/s read because of the internal SATA connection, this is a no brainer.

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

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.

notice I switched from WD black 1st gen. every thought is based on comparison with that ssd. This drive is so cheap there is 0 reason not to buy it over SATA SSD (because price is comparable $40=> 256gb, $60=> 512gb, $110=>1tb) at this price you get very quick reads, about triple write speed from SATA. Random speed is very similar to normal SSD you will not feel drastic improvement in response but it is noticeable in boot-up time, I do not care what cold boot to fresh windows is because I dont use fresh windows I use windows with apps installed and it made a big difference. also very big difference is related to my workload I use Devloper tools like VSCode and Android studio. there is a massive difference in VM spin-up time(if you use snapshots) it saves a few seconds but it is absolutely worth it. would absolutely buy another on in fact im considering to get 1tb one for my laptop.

Nothing special. Good price

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.

Update:: my year old laptop nvme still doing great, have built multiple new pc with these and never seen one fail. If you have a heat sync it does very good but if not it’s fine, my intel 660p gets much hotter. The pic says it all... using crystal disk I took info as well. I idle at 28c during the hottest part of the stress test we hit 65c for only a second then 60,54,49,45,40,36,30,28. Extremely fast temp changes only was at max few seconds and this was still under 70. Will update if longevity holds but so far so good. Be sure to verify your board can support nvme if running a sata speed m2. If you have not tried NVMe and have a m2 slot I don’t know what else your waiting for. Prices are hovering at same price as m2sata for m2 nvme. Works great on my dell g5 laptop

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.