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

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.

I wasnt expecting much for the price but it blew me away. I was getting about 1400 megabytes per second. I thought for this price it would be like 500 or something. how can your complain with 47 dollars for a 1TB SSD. thats insane.

Five times faster than my other (2.5) S.P SSD. (See speed results) But, it only has 1.8 TB of storage capacity.

MUCH faster than anticipated at around 3ish GB down, 2ish GB up. Generic PCIE 3.0 x4 adapter in a PCIE 3.0 slot; Asus Maximus VI hero/ z87 chipset. Works great as main boot drive. Actual test images attached

For right around $20, this a great performing 256GB M.2 SSD. I plugged this card in, and ran a PC benchmark, and it showed that the NVMe Gen 3x4 SSD was running at 206% efficiency. Id say thats pretty darned good. If you need some additional storage, and want to add an M.2 drive, you cant go wrong here.

Good speed I just slap windows on it and use sata for other stuff. I would only recommend it to hold windows and drivers.

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

A cut above the, fast and affordable

At about 3 months the device started overheating. Tried adding heatsinks, but now has completely stopped working. Contacted support but really am not expecting much.

I put this in a MacBook Pro 2013 a few months ago with an adapter and it works great to this day.