Intel 660p Series M.2 2280 1TB PCIe NVMe 3.0 x4 3D2, QLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) SSDPEKNW010T8X1

I have this one since 2019 (Time of review 01-11-2022), and it works great. Speeds are as you see in the picture. Kudos to Intel to making a good affordable M2 SSD.

Prior to this SSD drive, I had a SanDisk 960 GB SATA SSD M.2 drive. I am transferring files at ~200-400 MB/s with that drive, but this Intel M.2 NVMe SSD blows it out of the water. I would personally say this is in between the speeds of SATA SSDs and high-end NVMe SSDs since I was getting benchmark speeds of ~ 1.4 GB/s. It was super easy to install on Windows 10 Pro 64 bit OS on an Alienware 17 R3 laptop, and I plan on transferring this drive to a new laptop in the future once the 9th gen Intel processors release to retain data. Keep in mind that this isnt a glorified Samsung Pro series NVMe SSD, but it definitely raises brows amongst the tech community in terms of value and performance. At a rated 200 TB TBW, this NVMe drive will go a long way. Lets say I transferred 10GB of data daily... That means I would be writing 3.65 TB of files a year making this theoretically capable of lasting about 55 years. Realistically, I plan to replace this drive after 5 years of use due to the exponential advancement in tech... In the meantime, this is the best deal you can get from a reliable company in regards to speed, reliability, endurance, and value. Overall, this makes a perfect storage drive for content creators, gamers, or tech enthusiasts looking for value and performance.

Great value for money vs. the storage space. I was only surprised by one thing. This is listed as a 2 terabyte drive but only 1.9 is available once it is formatted. This bothers me for some reason. Make more storage space upon manufacture so that after formatting it shows as a full 2 terabyte drive. This drive does not come with a support suite like Samsung drives do for health and trim features. If you appreciate that sort of thing, then the Sammy drive might be a better fit for you. I had to manually go out and try and find useful utilities for this drive. Really, there should have been documentation on where to go on the web to grab these tools. This drive is 3 to 4 times faster than my old SATA SSDs and I am noticing a difference in transfer speeds. Im very happy so far but it has only been a couple of weeks since purchase. I dont anticipate any future problems though.

After reading a lot of reviews and opinions and doing research about this vs samsungs line of m.2 ssds, I decided to go with this, and its been treating me perfectly for the past couple years. No regrets deciding to go with this over their competitors.

So I had this SSD for about 2 months now, and I can tell you this... Once you switch from an HDD to an SSD, theres no turning back. This SSD isnt the fastest or most reliable, but if youre looking for something to replace a laptop HDD or just want fast cheap storage, this is the best bang for the buck (unless you wait for the 2TB one to drop in price). This suited my needs of just replacing the HDD in my laptop and making it feel tons faster. The difference is insane, as I just wait 5-10 seconds for my PC to boot, rather than the 5-10 minutes it used to take to have Steam, Discord and the other applications ready to be used. For gaming, its great. Games are notably faster in load times, such as Final Fantasy taking less time to load worlds and such. I use to have issues where my HDD would be capped out in how fast it can work, now the SSD barely gets to 30% usage when installing games. However, I do have to say to not install this on any PC, because it depends on your CPU to make the most of it. Since I have a laptop i5, its not the smartest choice as my CPU at times cant keep up with the speeds. Other than that, its a solid SSD.

I bought a MacBook Air (early 2015 model) with just 128gb of memory. I finally to a point where that just wasnt enough. I combined this with Sintech NGFF M.2 nVME SSD Adapter Card (the long one, not the short one), and the combination works great. I had a Time Machine backup, and between it and a flashdrive with an iOS installer I was back up again in an hour or two (it only took about ten minutes to swap out the drive; the rest was all reinstalling the iOS and Time Machine backup). So... for less that $100, my MacBook Air has a new lease on life.

I installed this as a secondary SSD to my MSI GS65 Stealth 9SE. Aside from the process of tearing down the GS65 (MSIs fault), this was a quick and easy install. The drive was easily recognized by the BIOS and Windows 10. CrystalMark Benched this at 1.7GB Read and 1.7GB write which is pretty good for the price. Sure its no Samsung Evo 970 Pro, but you have to factor in that the Intel drive costs 3X less. This drive is totally worth it!

Its pretty easy to install but it comes with no screws, it uses the same screws as a hard drive caddy (at least for my laptop). It definitely makes games load faster but one drawback (and the main reason for cheap price) is that when dealing with files over 50GB this slows down drastically (110-130MB/s). However this wont affect you during gaming. You see, manufacturers put the fastest speed with best case scenario on their descriptions. So this can be just as fast as advertised but under specific conditions. Imagine like a car manufacturer saying “up to 40 miles per gallon” it doesnt mean that you will get 40 mpg every single time, it just means that it can happen with the right conditions. I used it on my MSI Raider laptop as well as my Asus GU502. Both use PCIE NVME 3x2 and 3x4.

To another company so they are no longer providing the service and support that the Intel name brings with the product I paid for...sad really. Guess it leaves Seagate.

The price of a 2TB drive was great so I tried it. It is installed in an external case by QNine that works great. I now dont have to carry around the triple sized (which is still small). Long term usage of it in this manner is unknown but so far it works great. I did pair it directly from USB C to USB C but I am not running games from it so I have not even looked at the numbers to see about speeds! Took off ONE star, should have been half a star if it were possible, for a failure of one of two devices but data could be mostly recovered. WARNING: Had one of the two I purchased fail in about a month after the one year point. No problem as there is a 5 year warranty. First thing Intel says is contact the seller; yeah, well Amazons first thing says contact the manufacturer. Thanks, great circular argument. I then spent 2 weeks and many, many hours troubleshooting not only on my own but with the Intel people. Workarounds were required because the information they wanted is impossible to get unless the drive is in the computer - a laptop means you take it apart and put it back together BUT, worse, my laptop only allows ONE of the NVMe PCIe drives to be installed at a time - so once installed it cannot be found as it is the boot drive. No problem - I have an external case but nope - the case doesnt allowed SMART status which is needed. NO PROBLEM - found a great little program which gave me a lot of the SMART data so I could send it to the tech team. Finally, I gave up. The 2 TB of data was backed up so no big deal. Well, kind of no big deal as getting the backup up to date was no easy and yet more time and since it wasnt a real time backup it isnt perfect. None of my time would be a problem except for the last Intel insult - Return of the SSD will be on your dime. WHAT? Oh, yes, they offer to send me the replacement for $25 and the cost of the unit of which the latter will be credited when they get the old drive back. OK, I can see the unit charge until they get it but I have never been charged to send back a FAILED product!!! Most companies feel pretty bad about the failure of their products and want to get a new one out to you fast and get the broken one back! Not Intel, I guess. UPDATE: Intel did replace this drive with a working unit; they were good that when I called no more troubleshooting they were not only QUICK but they overnighted the part to me!!! My ONLY complaint, besides the unit failure - they ding your credit card for over $400 for a part they sell for half of that! IN other words - I think they charge you for BOTH the one sent and the one you are returning for some odd reason as the list price on the Intel website for the part is, like said, half of the price they charge your card for holding purposes.