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 needed some extra storage and M.2 have a small form factor. It was quick to install in an enclosure and my laptop recognized and formatted the new drive with no issues.

A friend of mine, which that title is up for debate currently, ordered a 16 TB SSD for the same price as this drives original MSRP. To his horror I popped it open and showed him the 16 GB MicroSD card inside. I ordered him one of these and a Sabrent m.2 enclosure. Gave it to him last night and hes already happy with it. Easy to use, setup. Not the top tier but for moving a few big files between things without going through the cloud, its makes for a great SSD/jump drive.

Good value for money. Wasnt looking for best & fastest SSD just needed something to install OS to and this fit the bill just fine.

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

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

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

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.

My laptop came with a 1TB NVMe drive. I added this drive to the laptop, then copied a few hundred gigs from the first drive to the second (new) drive. I was getting copy speeds of over 1.5GB/s. Thats more than 10 times faster than copying to a standard hard drive. I couldnt be happier!

nothing much to say, I have been buying SP drives for a while now and they are some of the best value out there for SSDs! keep up the good work and customer support!