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

This drive is fast and worked great, while it lasted. I used it sporadically for two years a few times a week. then it just died. No warning. Its what solid state drives do but this one is the first that has failed on me.

I purchased 6 of the 1tb p34a80 model NVMEs. I put all 6 drives into a pool of 3x 2-way mirrors. R/W performance was on par with the advertisements, I wasnt expecting to surpass those speeds with the pool as the PCIe riser card nor my motherboard support bifurcation to take full advantage of the PCIe lanes available to the card. Note that even in a pool of 6 drives, the speed transferring files tanks after the cache has filled on these drives. These drives were close to being a 5 star product. One of the drives starting propagating read errors less than 24 hours after installing. Amazon is replacing the drive. Will update how the replacement does over time

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.

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.

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.

Was looking for a budget nvme that had decent speeds and capacity and I decided on this one. I didn’t really think twice about buying it since I already own quite a bit of Silicon Power products and have only ever had one fail. After I received the nvme ssd I installed it to my system and used it as a secondary drive for 4k video editing. I proceeded to use it for only about a week before it stopped working. The first thing I noticed was that it gave me a prompt that said “device not specified”. I tried recovering the footage on the drive but I couldn’t read nor write any information from the drive. I proceeded to restart my computer to see if that would fix the issue but instead the drive no longer appeared in File Explorer. I tried reseating it and formatting the drive but nothing worked. Eventually I gave up and requested a replacement. When replacement arrived I set it up and started using it for the same purpose as the last and to my surprise, it failed after only three days of use! One thing I did notice is that the drive does get hot under load (measured using HWINFO). I made sure to measure the temperatures to see if it was a heat issue and it reached up to 85c before I turned off the system to prevent any damage. I then installed an nvme heat sink to test if it was a heat issue or reliability issue. Even with a heat sink installed it managed to reach a peak of 75c with an average of 47c under heavy load. To my surprise the replacement drive failed after three days of use! Both drives had little over 2TB of data written to them and about 400GB of data read, nowhere close to the drive durability rating. Pros: - Great Value...if it was reliable Cons: - VERY UNRELIABLE - HOT UNDERLOAD Overall, I think the drive is unreliable and not for those who need it for mission critical data and heavy use cases. I haven’t used the drive for lighter use cases so I can’t really give an opinion there but I think it’s best to avoid this drive.

I download about 6 Tb of data each month and that data is stored on two 32 Tb external drive enclosures with four much slower 8 Tb traditional 3.5-inch mechanical drives. The speed at which the data comes in is much too fast for the enclosures to write the data in real time creating a huge bottleneck. So instead of writing directly to the enclosures, I used my solid state NVME drive to a large cache the incoming data as it comes in. Then the data from that cache will trickle the content to my enclosures. But there was still bottlenecking and some latency when I was just using one of these Silicon Power NVME drives. So, I purchased another one and a PCI-E to NVME m.2 adapter. I created the RAID 0 in my BIOS so that the two drives would double my storage space, but also increase the read/write speed. After installing my OS and updating all the drivers and software, I ran a benchmark on the RAID 0 and was extremely pleased to see how much faster two of these Silicon Power NVME drives performed together please see the screen capture that I uploaded. For my purposed, this setup work great. I have the RAID split into two partitions. The smaller one has my OS and apps installed on it. The much larger second partition is set aside for some backup storage, but it also serves as the first place my downloads are stored prior to being sent to my external drives for permanent storage. With the price of 2 Tb PCi-e Gen 4 drives hovering around $400 and the price of one of these 1 Tb drives at $99 at the time of this writing, using two of these drives was much less expensive even when the PCI-e to m.2 NVME adapter which cost about $20 was included in order to create the array. So, for almost half the price of a gen 4 2 Tb drive, I was able to get the same high performance at about half the price. For my needs, Silicon Power came through for me and I couldnt be happier because the bottle neck is gone!

This made my laptop start faster than my gaming pc

First tempted by crasy TBW warranty, then realized I will not live long enough to get it worn out. Anyway, works as intended, speeds are satisfactory, total steal for the money. Use it as a second drive in home setup, nothing hardcore.

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