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

Installed two of these in my Synology 420+ NAS and working flawlessy.

This really increased the speed of my loading times, I am using an older i7 and wanted a slight upgrade for speed and this item was way more speed than expected. It wont make gaming better but as far as load times the difference was phenomenal and very easy to install. I have moderate computer building experience so watch so.e videos to decide if this is something you can handle.

I own several of these drives and they all are much faster than my old 2.5 SATA SSDs. These M.2 drives reside directly on the PCIe bus and are 4-5x faster than typical SATA SSDs. The Intel drives are also a good alternative to the much more expensive Samsung M.2 SSDs such as the 970 EVO lineup. The performance, compatibility and reliability are comparable for less money. In fact, Im now considering replacing the 256GB Samsung 970 EVO thats in my HP Pavilion Gaming laptop with an Intel 1TB 660P which would quadruple the storage capacity with basically the same performance.

Not only is it fast, but the read/write speed is blistering fast!

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.

This is so wrong I just got my stick today, using an m.2 to pcie adapter on my z97 mobo with ****Windows 7******. First of all my system does not recognize this drive at all, I flashed the newest bios but it doesn’t work either. After some digging, MS has released 2 hotfix years ago to add native driver support in nvme in win7. Patches is currently unavailable in MS website, you can download them via 3rd party maybe. KB2990941 and KB3087873 After up to date, my new drive finally shows up to me, I run an ancient crystal disk mark on it, and the results is like emmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I have a laptop(Asus scar ii) installed with a 512g 660p, you guys can compare these results , I just have no idea why it run faster in fossil hardwares.

Just died this morning with No warning or blue screen of death. I found that the data disk was not initialized. Earlier this week I checked for firmware updates and ran a manual trim performed a full diagnostic scan and all went well. I was able to reinitialize and format the drive after but now I am tasked with finding the backup for this particular drive. I should consider raid 1 for this ssd but that would require me to buy another. I will not be recommending this ssd to my clients unless the price comes way down so I can buy 2 and mirror them.

I use this drive for data storage and a Samsung 970 EVO 1TB for my C drive windows 10 and programs. I have hot swapable drive bays I use my old Western Digital mechanical drives in when needed for back up and store old pictures etc. So no drive noises at all during normal use! Less power used, less heat. Current SSD drives temp both at 97 degrees F (no ssd fans); case interior 95 degrees. Computer boot-up time is about 10 - 13 seconds and turns off in 4 seconds. VERY little noise, only the fans which are almost unnoticeable. Motherboard: Gigabyte Z390 AORUS PRO (Intel LGA1151/Z390/ATX/2xM.2)

I bought the 2TB Intel 660p NVMe SSD, new, from Amazon Services, Inc. (not an other seller). Reviews indicate it has an OK buffer size, with SamSung and even HP a little better. However, the price is stellar, and its still faster at any of its speeds than my prior device. I was a little worried because of some claims that their new device was mislabeld. The package I received had the safety tape cut already. I was worried. I inspected closely, and everything was correct. No fingerprints, no damage. When I installed the device, it said power cycles 2, power-on hours 0. Hardware ID is Intel SSDPEKNW020T8, and size is 2 TiB. Now that my concerns were assuaged, I used Macrium to clone. Cloning from my old drive pushed 430GBytes in 45 minutes. Macrium claimed 1.3GB/sec. Swapped the device, and re-enabled BitLocker, reinstalled Steam, etc. So far, performance is great. Its been 3 days, and backups are fast, games load fast, etc. I was on NVMe before, so I didnt expect to notice any difference. I do. Its not as much as the difference from HDD to SSD, but it is like the difference between SATA and NVMe. So, as a reminder, every few years, check performance for the next generation of SSDs. If your system supports it, and you run any demanding workloads (VirtualBox/VMWare, gaming, etc), then consider an upgrade. UPDATE 2020-02-07: the performance is still about the same. 7300-7900 read iops and 9-15k write iops. Bumping up the queue depth brings that into the 30-90k range. Throughput is int eh 1300-1500 range on read, and 790-1700 range on sequential writes.

Intel solid state drive comes without OEM box and mounting screw. This is no big deal. Works and performs as advertised.