Silicon Power 2TB NVMe M.2 PCIe Gen3x4 2280 SSD R/W up to 3,400/3,000MB/s (SU002TBP34A80M28AB)

I was a little leery of taking a chance on a no-name m.2 SSD but now Im glad that I did. This went into a late 2013 MacBook Pro 13. I had to use an adapter (of course), but the installation went smoothly, the drive was recognized and I was able to do a clean install from a USB drive. The speed is noticeably faster than the old drive and now I have twice the space. Glad to get some more life out of this 7 year-old laptop. I cant speak to support or warranty (it has 5 years) because I havent had any issues. Thumbs crossed, but so far this has been a fantastic m.2 SSD. I would definitely buy again.

System: HP Elite 800 G1 SSF (yes, very old) Combo with: * Dual M.2 PCIE Adapter for SATA or PCIE NVMe SSD with Advanced Heat Sink Solution,M.2 SSD NVME (m Key) and SATA (b Key) 22110 2280 2260 2242 2230to PCI-e 3.0 x 4 Host Controller Expansion Card * Kingston A400 240G Internal SSD M.2 2280 SA400M8/240G (used as boot and basic apps) * Silicon Power 512GB NVMe M.2 PCIe Gen3x4 2280 (used as secondary disk for intense-hogging apps and caching) Warnings: * Will NOT work on older BIOS that dont support PCIe boot and UEFI. Not even with the SATA NVMe connection. Just not going work. Im lucky enough to discover that the latest 2.78 BIOS update actually allows PCIe to be detected and usable via the SATA NVMe portion (M or M+B key). * Will NOT work if youre depending on the PCIe NVME M.2 as the primary boot up because its faster for systems that utiliz old BIOS. Not going to happen. You MUST have the M or M+B Key SATA as the primary boot at max of 500MB/s read-write rate. * If youre purchasing for very old systems that dont have UEFI boot mode at bare minimum that supports PCIe NVMe, youre gambling with your money. With those warnings in mind, overall, the addon is quite awesome. Going from the SATA III with read-write at 120MB/s max, loading up at 500MB/s beats the old SATA III HHDs hands down. Paired up with M.2 500GB or 1TB, the system renewed with a new life to do light photoshopping/video editing for beginners as the read-write max out at 3282 MB/s. My old HDDs would have disk throttled at 90% to 100% constantly. With these additions, the HDD remains constant at 0% or max at 10% (for the booting SATA NVMe). Kids play games, and no hangup or bottlenecking like it was under the common SATA HDD. Compared to SSD and the old HDD temperature, SSD peaking out at 44C while the HDD roasts at 58C after 60 minutes. The provided silicone strips and radiating fins help with the temperature dissipation and maintained at 36C after 60 minutes. Not a bad deal.

so the silicon power standard ssds are just ok however the nvme ssds are great! theyve been easily keeping up with my friends samsung/WD branded models and they also get pretty great scores from sites like userbenchmark, normally preforming above the 100% mark easily

I have installed two of these in my new system, one with the OS on it, and within two days I have started to get the Blue Screen of Death (BSoD). I even pulled them both out and reinstalled them, the BSoD still occurred. My computer is very fresh but I use it for grad school and would like to let the OEM know I have received a faulted drive. I will be contacting the company vie their support when available. Has anyone else encountered this issue? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATE: I had contacted Silicon Power of the issue, their technical customer service was great. Gave me specific actions to take to solve the problem. I obviously didnt want to format my drive but I did after getting angry of getting 3 BSoD in 10 minutes. I formatted it and updated the BIOS, I currently have not encountered the previous problem. They even provided me with RMA forms if Amazon did not take my replacement action (I never went through with this.) I shall keep this updated based on my experience. Silicon Power has been a great experience to work with to solve the problem I encountered with my inquiry of their product.

This made my laptop start faster than my gaming pc

Okay ... So I am changing my review of the item to four stars ... and Ill explain why. So I my initial post was about how this particular SSD had a series of issues when I installed it in my laptop. Especially sticking when the machine has to reboot. However ... I didnt realise that the laptop a Dell Inspiron 14 5485 ... had a MAJOR bios update ... and when that was done (having to use the original drive on the laptop), then this new drive began to work. Its been two days and so far all is well. So Id recommend it ... just be weary when installing ... check to make sure your machine bios is up to date.

I started using it. Works great

I picked up an old PC that was being discarded and it supported NVMe. I am using it as a ProxMox box to run Home Assistant. The performance of this NVMe allows Home Assistant to be very responsive. So, for only the price of this drive and having a snappy home automation system is money well spent.

I got this NVMe drive for a budget PC build and it did not disappoint. Its super affordable for the capacity and is great as an OS drive and programs if you dont need to take advantage of PCIe 4.0 or 5.0 speeds as it its PCIe 3.0. That its super inexpensive (at the time of this review) and has DRAM cache is fantastic! Would absolutely buy again for another PC build.

I bought this to put in my iMac 27 2017 and put it in a NVMe USB C Thunderbolt adapter to transfer the files via migration. HOLY COW even externally my MacOS runs insanely faster than it did on my Fusion set up that came in it. So fast and with no lagging that Ive been too lazy to attempt a proper 4hr long installation. lol. Im moving huge video files around with no lagging or anything so... idk if I am even going to put it inside the machine now. lol. Itd sure be easier to resell the imac in a couple years if I dont pop it open and leave in the stock stuff (and not void my AppleCare). Anywho. GO FOR IT! This gets speeds of 2000+/1300+ R/W EXTERNALLY via USB-C with the OS also running on it when testing. lol.