Silicon Power 1TB - NVMe M.2 PCIe Gen3x4 2280 SSD (SP001TBP34A60M28)

I remember when this type of storage was so expensive, and when these drives were shipped; Amazon would put them in big over-sized boxes. There would be air bags in there to protect the drives. Now that the price of 3D Nand has dropped, Amazon just ships these in flimsy plastic bags. These drives are susceptible to bend stress when packaged this way. Also, this brand initial packaging is very light. I bought a Samsung EVO drive of the same capacity, and it was packaged more securely. Besides that issue, these drives are great for quick budget builds, or if you want to add fast cheap storage to an external M.2 enclosure. I am going to use this to upgrade my sons current gaming PC. He will be upgraded to a Ryzen 5 2600X on a ASUS Prime B450M-A II motherboard, with 16 Gigs of DDR4 running at 3200 Mhz. His current M.2 is a 256 Gig drive.

Great value for money. Perhpas wait for any ongoing sale to get further bang for your buck!

Esta perfecta, pero al momento de comprar me encuentro con que no tiene el tornillo para fijarlo a la placa por lo que me obligo a comprar uno aparte

I recently picked up two of the 1TB drives for for an older Dell Precision T7910 Tower. This machine is a beast but really needed the benefit of booting from an NVMe drive. There are no native M.2 NVMe slots on the main board so, I installed these two drives onto a Dell designed PCIe non-RAID card. The card uses PCIe 3.0 x8 lanes for both SSDs (x4 per SSD) parked in an x16 slot. I am really impressed the performance of these SPCC drives. I have run CrystalDiskMark on both and attached to my review. I am pushing almost 2600MB/s on each drive for sequential 1M reads. Pretty fast for such an inexpensive SSD. I also over 2000MB/s 1M wrtites. These numbers exceed everything I have seen for these drives. I noticed that the two SSDs are not identical, I posted a picture of the two drives mounted on the Dell PCIe card, from the side you can clearly see that one drive has fewer chips than the other, the label is stuck on the circuit board versus onto chips like the other drive. They both show up the same in CrystalDiskInfo with one exception, the SSD that has fewer chips run 20 C hotter at idle. Seems peculiar that they would not be identical, maybe a change in the hardware revision. I am very happy with the drives at this point and I think they are a great value for the current market. Purchased: 02/03/2023 for $48/ea. UPDATE: 02/27/2023 I answered my questions regareding the extreme variation in temperatures as reported by CrystalDiskInfo, 64 degrees C on one drive and 40 degrees C on the other. The added photos show two very different versions of the drive which I received. I was not paying attention to the differences when I first installed the drives and did not notice the obvious changes in the versions. In the photos, the drive marked REV.B manufacture date is 42nd week 2022, the drive marked REV.C is dated 45th week 2022. The older REV.B drive is the one with fewer chips which only cover about 2/3 of the circuit board it runs hot ~60-64 degrees C. The newer REV.C drive has chips which populate the entire 2280 board, this is the drive that runs at around 40 degrees C. I purchased a couple of heat sinks to attach to the drives, they are actually running a little hotter than when the drives had the Dell board fan shroud intalled (the shroud would not fit over the drives with the heat sinks in place). I think I will order another drive and see if I get another REV.C, if so, Ill return the REV.B A little picky perhaps, but I prefer for the drives to be identical.

For the price, this is a very fast, reliable and easy to use drive. It is solid state so it is fast and reliable, but can get hot in extreme conditions. I use this with a Blackmagic 4.6k ursa gen 2 and it works like a charm. No issues with transfers, dropped grams, or down/uploads. Used it to back up several gigs of data and smoked through it like butter. If shooting in 4K at the higher bit rates it will get hot. I have it in an inexpensive aluminum case, no bigger than the drive and it has not failed but does get hot, especially if your shooting in the sun. It’s a good drive at a good price. I own a lot of simple brand drives, memory cards and all have been rock solid. I highly recommend this company.

Is a good drive fast and easy to work with would buy again.

I use this NVME for my backup drive. All of this is through 3.2 USB Port and Cable. I have seen transfer rates reach 5GB a second! Why not install it inside the case? I can easily unplug it from the USB Port to backup another computer. Nice product.

A cut above the, fast and affordable

For the budget price , you cant go wrong with Silicon Power or Team Group. Make sue you check the specification for the TLC not QLC. I choose this since its $1 cheaper than the Team Group ones. For the money, it has the best price to performance. ADATA/XPG is also a good brand too, but seems most of the model are out of stock. I used to buy the Crucial P1/P2 Series, they may have the better performance for the buffer, but when the buffer run out. The speed are extremely slow. All for the QLC. Besides . Crucial P1 has only around 200TBW for 1TB if Im not mistaken. This Silicon Power 512GB has 300TBW, Hugh difference. Though the manufacture claimed the heatsink is not required. You may consider one since on full load, the temperature can go as high as 65c witho ut heatsink. After heatsink , the fully load is about 50c. The heatsink I use is Thermalright TR-M.2 which is more than enough for this SSD

Ive only had this product two days but the advertised speeds are definitely being held up minus a little slow on the write speeds but it works great for the price and i cant believe my boot time to bios is only 14 seconds and boot to windows is 21 seconds which is not to shabby considering it was about 45 seconds with a SATA SSD. Now all my apps open much faster and its an excellent little boot drive for my PC already have two silicon power 2.5 inch SSDS and now im moving on up to the world of M.2 SSDs and for the price i think im stuck with keeping with Silicon Power. 10/10 highly recommend