Timetec 1TB SSD 3D NAND TLC SATA III 6Gb/s 2.5 Inch 7mm (0.28) 800TBW Read Speed Up to 550 MB/s SLC Cache Performance Boost Internal Solid State Drive for PC Computer Desktop and Laptop (1TB)

It works great

I have this SSD drive installed as the OS drive in an Intel 5th generation NUC that has Elementary OS 7 Horus Linux installed on it. I will definitely be purchasing from them again.

Works really good in the laptop I bought it for. Seems faster then the original one did. Would recommend if a replacement is needed.

Fast, easy to install

I am a technician, I always buy this product, very good and a fair value, I recommend it!

Timetec not a household (or even geek) name. But the excellent pricing and Amazon return policy, (and company reach-out) prompted me to git this 2TB SATA 6 drive a try. I cloned quickly and easily with Acronis and I was rewarded with 10-20% faster boot-up than my previous Crucial 1TB SATA SSD. No reason to think this wont last. Would absolutely buy again, and may soon, for another @TB upgrade on another computer.

The Timetec 1tb M2 ssd is definitely great value for your money. If you don’t want to drop $100 on a name brand ssd and don’t necessarily care about a few milliseconds in difference of loading speed in your games or large files then definitely get this ssd. I will say the speed of this SSD is a little slow compared to others but it is really great for the price. Great starter ssd or even an additional ssd to add some storage for non-essential files

Summary: The drive failed to boot one week after Windows 11 install. Ran HD tune utility from a flash drive and found 2% of the SSD sectors were damaged (See pictures)! Drive died during reinstall. Detailed review: I bought this SSD to replace my 256 gigabyte SSD that had run out of space. My computer also has a SATA slot that contains a two terabyte HDD, which is used as storage. I backed up the content of my boot drive, installed the new drive, and installed Windows 11 on it. Initially, it worked fine, and the drive was even faster than my previous Kingston SSD. About six days later, the Windows Disk Checker screen popped up during a restart. I didnt think much of it, and let it run to completion. The following day, the computer stopped booting. I tried using the windows repair utility and failed. I even had a restore point set up, but even that failed. After that had failed, I decided to boot up from a flash drive and run a few tests. The HD tune test showed that 2% of the drive sectors were damaged. I really didnt want to waste time on uninstalling the drive, returning it, and waiting to receive another one. So, I attempted to erase the drive with an eraser utility. This utility writes over all the existing data, making sure that your original data is no longer accessible after erasing. Modern SSD drives come with firmware that should detect bad sectors and replace them with good spare sectors. I thought that maybe the erasing process could engage this ability and fix the bad sectors. I was wrong. The SSD completely failed to the point that it was no longer detectable in the computers BIOS. This SSD is most likely manufactured using rejected wafers from major SSD manufacturers. These chips can be rejected for a wide assortment of reasons, such as not hitting speed benchmarks, or consuming a little too much power. Companies can buy these chips at a very large discount, and oftentimes they work fine but, without adequate testing, its completely a game of chance. Final thoughts: I understand that everyone wants to save money, and this is the cheapest one terabyte SSD on Amazon. Im lucky that my damaged sectors were in the beginning of the drive and that I found out about the issue within a week of using my computer, rather than several months like some other reviewers have said. If you still want to buy the drive (I wouldnt recommend it), go ahead, but make sure to run a complete test on it before trusting your data to it.

I have an HP Pavilion - 15-cw1068wm laptop with a 1TB SATA HDD data D drive, and a Samsung 128GB SATA M.2 SSD Windows C drive. I purchased this to upgrade the Samsung SATA SSD that was running out of space. The laptop doesn’t have an extra (empty) hard drive slot, so I purchased a cheap M.2 SATA SSD to USB 3.0 external SSD adapter enclosure, and used Macrium Reflect to clone the existing 128GB SSD to this 256GB SSD. I am a physical therapist and I know how to access the motherboard to upgrade the network adapter to WiFi 6, add more memory, and upgrade the SSD, but that’s the extent of my computer knowledge. I don’t know anything about all the partitions on the C drive, or the BIOS settings, so I crossed my fingers and hoped that my “cloned” C drive was exactly that. In other words, truly an identical copy that immediately would boot up exactly like the old drive, without having to change any BIOS settings. Fortunately, that’s exactly what happened, and I guess I can thank Macrium Reflect for that. I have no complaints about this Timetec SSD, the upgrade process was seamless, and for ~ $21 I doubled the size of my Windows SSD. I installed this Timetec SSD 3 weeks ago, and everything has been fine so far. My system performs exactly the same way it did with the original Samsung SSD.

My initial rating is based on speed & price -- 5 stars. Only time will tell how TIMETEC SSD will endure regular use. A speed test proved that it passed the described Up to 550mbps (see pictures). Now the 800TBW the jury is still out. My oldest & 1st SSD is the 120GB Crucial - I installed that as a Win OS back in 2013, its now running Win10, the drive will be 10yrs old in a month or so. I have 4 Inland Professional SSD all are over 5yrs old & are still running fine. This is the 1st time I heard of TIMETEC also the most affordable one I found, hopefully it will surpass 5yrs of regular use as well. Will update as time goes on. With 2 days in, it will be a while.