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

I bought this to put in my iMac 27 2017 and put it in a NVMe USB C Thunderbolt adapter to transfer the files via migration. HOLY COW even externally my MacOS runs insanely faster than it did on my Fusion set up that came in it. So fast and with no lagging that Ive been too lazy to attempt a proper 4hr long installation. lol. Im moving huge video files around with no lagging or anything so... idk if I am even going to put it inside the machine now. lol. Itd sure be easier to resell the imac in a couple years if I dont pop it open and leave in the stock stuff (and not void my AppleCare). Anywho. GO FOR IT! This gets speeds of 2000+/1300+ R/W EXTERNALLY via USB-C with the OS also running on it when testing. lol.

Okay I bought a top of the line samsung evo pro nvme for my operating system and I bought a 1 TB silicon power for games. This thing works exactly as advertised. Yes it is a little slower then the samsung. But for what I wanted it for, night and day difference. If your upgrading from any other ssd you will notice a difference. When it comes to games....if your playing a lot of multi player games...you are probably gonna be stuck waiting on the guy with the slowest load times. So getting a stupid fast samsung is just not worth the money. If you plan on using this for games it will work extremely well. It will work for your operating system. I just wanted the fastest possible one for that which samsung still holds the crown for. But for the $ to value. This thing is unbeatable. Easy to install, does not come with a stand off post or screw. So if you dont not have either of those just go buy them from amazon for like $7.00. You will need them. If your are looking for a quality nvme at a cheaper price point then samsung then just grab one of these up because you will not be dissapointed.

This review is for: Silicon Power 2TB NVMe M.2 PCIe Gen3x4 2280 TLC R/W up to 3,400/3,000MB/s SSD which I used to upgrade my 2014 macbook pro. It was easy to install(be sure to order adapter) and the speeds are very good for my laptop. R/W speeds are both over 1300mbps which is very good for my year macbook. I get this same speed in OSX Catalina and in my Windows 10 bootcamp install. It works great so far, my only concern is that my laptop does run noticeable warmer. Its not hot, just warmer....and when I installed Win 10 with bootcamp the fan actually kicked into high gear and I had never heard that before. So for my year macbook it does make it run warmer, but not hot....so it should be fine. The adapter card I used with it is: Sintech NGFF M.2 nVME SSD Adapter Card. If your wondering there is no room for a heat sink, even a very small one, once this is installed with the adapter card.

Excellent performance, nearly reach the speeds advertised. However, I took away one star because this SSD will overheat under heavy load. I had to buy a heat spreader for this and now temperatures are stable. Note I said heat spreader, NOT heat sink. A thin piece of metal over the chips is all that is needed to keep this SSD stable so a little annoying this SSD doesnt come preinstalled with one or one isnt supplied in the box.

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!

I just spend couple of days installing this SSD. It took couple of days not because of this SSD but because I had to move stuff off the spinning metal. Working with SP SSD was a pleasure and easy. My motherboard required firmware update and a PCIe M.2 adapter to make this work as it is older board. But with the adapter at around $12. It was no big deal. Most CPU only support x16 PCIe lanes. This is a x4 PCIe card. On my board, it splits the PCIe into 2- x8 lanes. So my R9 290X loses x8 PCIe lanes. Based on other testers review, the lose isnt much. If you are not getting something not close to this, your hardware is the problem. Excellent SSD performance. Cant wait to get few more.

This is my 4th SP SSD. They work well, they work fast. No complaints when used for desktop computers. Highly recommended product. Update 5/15/2021: After purchasing a total of 9 SP storage products a total of 2 have prematurely failed. The first one worked erratically out of the box and ultimately failed after 1 month of usage. The second failure happened after installing windows 10 on a computer and storing it for about 1 year. When the laptop was taken out of storage it would not boot. The culprit was the SP SSD. The other SDDs I purchased are still working great. I think I got hit with two cases of infant mortality. I will update again if I get any more failures.

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.

Ive only had it hooked up so far to a little external NVME case so limited to USB C 10Gb connection. Having said that, I still achieved 1.05GB/sec (8.4Gb) in both read and write using ATTO. Hard to complain about that. Amazing performance for the money. Ill be using it for a new build in a couple of months when I get the new AMD Zen 2 chip. Highly recommended!! Its now over 3 months later and I installed this drive in a new 3700X build 2 months ago. I had zero problems loading Windows 10 Pro, software, drivers, etc. on it. I was literally up and running in about half an hour and spent a few more hours loading up software and updates. Completely painless. Ive had zero problems so far and my new Asus MB X570e-Gaming motherboard has heatsinks for the M.2 drives. I have not been able to throttle the drive no matter how hard I work it. Love this drive especially at the price I paid. Insane and highly highly recommended!!

There are two kinds of users when it comes to SSD storage. Those who have lost data and those who will lose data. I have moved from will, to have. Initially a few bad clusters started showing up then more and more with each use. I cannot trust this drive