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.

Maybe Im just starting to get old, but 100 bucks for a 1TB NVME SSD is a great deal. Its blazing fast and stays cool under the small heatsink provided with my Gigabyte Aorus B450 board. 1540 read, 1381 write and a sustained write of 1023. Ten times faster than my HDDs and at least twice as fast as my 850 EVO sata SSD.

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.

This is the cheapest brand new 2TB NVMe SSD you can buy now. Though the price per GB is really low, the performance penalty of QLC NAND flash really hurts when you run out of the SLC cache. Sometimes it may even dip below 100MB/s. This is a great warehouse for your massive Steam library but I do not recommend using it as your boot drive for Windows. Also the greater the total capacity, the greater amount of SLC cache it have, so I am only comfortable recommending the 2TB version.

No issues with this 1TB SSD so far. Decided to go with this SSD product over other vendors because of the longer warranty.

Much improved gaming experiences since the M.2 works best with my MSI chipset and 2081Ti video card.

I wanna start by saying that I did not buy this as a drive for my operating system. Mostly all of my storage is solid state with the exception of a single 2TB hard disk that I was using as an overflow for games. It wasnt able to load large games quickly at all and took forever. So I upgraded to this solid state drive and it’s been worlds better. This solid state drive is not anywhere near as fast as others, especially Samsung nvme drives as well as the new PCIe gen4 ones but when it comes to game load times you won’t notice any difference between this and those but this is still faster and a SATA based SSD. My only complaint is that for the slower speed this thing runs crazy hot. Overall the price you pay for the 2TB version is a great deal and I would definitely buy another one for one of my other systems when I need more storage on one of them.

I owned Intel SSDs before, and never had a problem. I trust Intel for it is a good solid company. The Intel site has complete spec, tutorial and all drivers needed, even for old & outdated products. This M.2 SSD came in an Intel box, installed and Intel web site has very good tutorial, how to initialize and format it. My old SSDs after 5 and 7 years still running in my Pentium and i3 PCs.

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.

This drive, while by no means a performance model, is just fine for the daily driver user. The five year warranty is soothing, given the lowish but really just fine 400TBW wear rating. Having said that, if you edit video, move a lot of large files on and off the drive or are using any caching application (say, bcache or in a zfs system), or you are a developer using a lot of virtualization, or database apps, etc, then you might want to go with a drive like the Samsung 970 Pro or even Optane. These are faster, and have in the range of 3x the TBW rating. But are roughly 3x to 10x the cost! If you really need that performance, you already know it. It could even be nice for gaming because you know your money is going into other components, and this is so much faster than hard disks in any case. In general if you are putting this in a notebook, or otherwise have a normal, general purpose use case, then save your money with this bursty QLC ssd that is engineered to be indistinguishable for typical use.