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

I purchased this 2 TB drive with the primary purpose of turning it into a speedy external storage drive . I chose Intel because it is a brand that I trust for reliability. It pairs very well with the Sabrent USB 3.1 external enclosure, which is also sold on Amazon for about 50 USD, as at the time of writing . To create a speedy external 2 TB drive combo at USD 250 in total is a fantastic deal. Footnote: I purchased this drive at the end of May 2019 from. Amazon directly . The drive is manufactured in Taiwan with a Manufacturing date of April 2019. There were some reports of other buyers receiving opened boxes with broken seals, I am glad to report that my purchase was completely brand new and unopened.

I purchased this for my wife to increase her SSD storage and purchased it specifically because it was $194 for 2TBs. I wish I would have purchased two. The price was very good and the drive works flawlessly. It is not as fast as an NVME Samsung drive but you know that when you purchase it. For storage, it doesnt matter and has worked great. I have nothing but good things to say about it and would highly recommend it if you can get it at a good price.

1tb solid state drive with 600MBps+ read/write. 1/3 the price of the latest generation drives. Its a no brainier for Even the most savvy gamer. Last generation nvme drives are overkill for any consumer application or game. You can save money, receive plenty of usage time out of these 600 series drives. I didnt see any reason to have read/write speed of the latest generation samsung drives since nothing I use requires it and you wont notice if your game loads 2 miliseconds faster. FPS in games arent really impacted by read/write speeds so again save a little cash on the drive and get a better graphics card. If you want to get the latest generation drive to futureproof your system you may want to realize each drive has a limited number or writes to each block. All solid state drives will eventually wear out. The drive may wear out before you have an application that requires the higher speeds you get with the latest generation nvme drive.

Quad Level Cell (QLC) Nand is a co-op of Intel and Micron. These chips do not seem to sacrifice performance to value like other entry level TLC chips may. While this Nvme drive does not perform like an EVO, it does not cost as much as an EVO. Crystal Disk benchmark reflected an as advertised transfer rate with the slowest results as Ive included. This is with 40% of the drive being occupied. Empty and freshly provisioned my highest was over 1900 MB/s read and just over 1800 MB/s write. I suspect that performance may tamper down as the drive space becomes consumed but time will tell. At $8.77 per GB when purchased, this is something Im will to accept. As for the QLC technology and its durability, time will also tell here as well. I do recommend this component to expand or replace current slower storage components like HDD or SSD drives based on the performance to cost ratio.

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.

By far the best value on the market. Windows 10 boots literally in three seconds, not the 10 minutes of my old computer with a mechanical HD. I bought the 1 terabyte version for my initial build but plan on buying the 2 terabyte version for additional storage. Some drives such as the 970 series from Samsung have a better durability and speed rating, however, durability should never be a factor unless one abuses by swapping vast amounts of data back and forth, and speed is still extraordinarily fast when used normally. I’ve been using the computer to play simple computer games, burning DVDs, and for word processing; all with remarkable loading speeds that far exceed my expectations.

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.

This is a game changer its my first ssd and my boot times are so fast, my games load so fast I love it. I play a lot of rainbow 6 and so because of ubisoft the game crashes a bit sometimes. Im usually able to close the game and boot it back up in time for the next round of r6 so I dont screw my team over. Windows loads in fast my games load fast, if you havent already get an ssd. I got the 2tb one and I dont think Ill come close to filling it but with games being close to 100gb nowadays maybe I will still tho, highly recommend this ssd if youre gaming.

Can someone help me? Im getting HDD speeds off this drive, and Idk if Im doing something wrong or its just a bum drive. I installed it today (re-seated it twice to make sure) and flashed bios update the night before. Im getting about 200mb read and 150mb write. Id hate to leave a bad review if its just my fault, but for now, Ill leave it at 3 stars unless someone can help me. I7-6700k 4.00ghz (oc to 4.5) Asus Z170 Pro Gaming Motherboard. Edit: had a lot of supportive friends on facebook but ended up figuring it out myself. I think what finally did it was manually updating the driver and manually partitioning the drive. I went from 300mb read speeds to 2gb, 2x the quoted speed. Write speed is similar, but Im using this as a steam drive, so read speed is my main concern. Actually just found the image that I posted to facebook to reassure my friends. Yeah, I was totally fine with 1gb read and write, but 2x performance? damn. I7-6700k (4.00) running at 4.6 Asus Pro Gaming Z170 MB 16gb Kingston HyperX Savage 3000mhz ddr4 ram Gtx 1080 sc

Its OK, good!