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

Had an HDD that had pictures and music on it that was getting noisy and showing bad sectors. I purchased this, cloned the bad drive, and everything is honky dory! Makes a great second drive.

I have this one for 3 weeks now and It has been working very well for me. Very fast windows boot time. I havent checked its temperature under load, Im not worried cuz my motherboard came with M.2 heatsinks but Ive seen people complaining about its temperature without them. Overall a great value M.2 Memory

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

It’s a good amount of SSD for small games.

This was the first NVMe drive I ever had running at gen 3 speeds which required a heatsink. I am cautiously optimistic because I have found SP SATA SSDs to be quite reliable. But this is a completely different product that runs too hot out of the box. So, I really wont know for a couple of years.

Works up to expectations so far. Only been a couple weeks but no issues yet.. Aint technology grand?

A cut above the rest, fast and affordable

This is a very cheap M.2 SSD. Performance is definitely not as fast as a Samsung EVO or any other upper tier brand, but if you want to throw this into an old or cheap system to make it a bit faster, this is a good choice. HOWEVER: If you want to use Linux on it, get something else. The SSD seems to be unable to be formatted by GParted or any of the Linux distros installers. Ive tried many workarounds assuming it was an issue with the systems I was using, but it is not. Only way to get Linux installed on it is by connecting it to a USB port through an adapter, and only Ubuntu works with that method.

It was good, I liked it

This drive is fast and works sufficiently in terms of speed. The only con I have experienced that it idles at 64°C without a heatsink. The max temp I have seen on a small load was 70°C on a mid level load. I will update Temps after the install of a heatsink. 70°C is the max temp an SSD should run at during a max load.