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

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 a new Lenovo C930 Yoga 2-in-1 laptop. Laptop came with 256GB SSD. They wanted more to upgrade to a 1TB SSD than the cost of this 2TB SSD. Within days of receiving my laptop, I connected this new SSD to a USB C port with a USB adapter and cloned with Macrium. Then I replaced the the system SSD with this one and booted right up. First CrystalDiskMark test showed over 3400MB/S as advertised but only 850MB/S write. Today, about 2 weeks later I ran CrystalDiskMark again and go the same read speed, but 2600MB/S write. Very pleased. However, I will tell you that my last Yoga had a SATA SSD and the feel of Windows 10 is the same with a 500MB/S SSD as a 3400MB/S SSD - at least on a laptop. I suppose if you copied files WITHIN the same drive, you wouldnt notice it is faster, but the feel of Windows is the same. I am very pleased with the 2TB capacity as my last Yoga had a 512GB SSD + a 512GB MicroSD card in USB... And now I dont have to travel around with a something permanently sticking out of (and using) a USB slot.

This drive is fast and worked great, while it lasted. I used it sporadically for two years a few times a week. then it just died. No warning. Its what solid state drives do but this one is the first that has failed on me.

Ive bought three of these drives (so far), and have had absolutely zero issues with them. The price is great for the market, and the drive is actually consistently faster than my EVO 960 outside of some very heavy read operations (but always wins on the writes), and is dramatically faster than my SATA SSD (and obviously insanely faster than my mechanicals). No frills here, packaged simple, no fuss, no muss, drive works great and is super speedy. My oldest is around a year old now, and the newest a couple months, both are working just as good as the day they arrived. Ill probably buy a small PCI-E card to mount a couple more of these in the future when 1TB prices drop, as Im absolutely in love with NVME storage. Ive never had a system boot as fast as these do, and I was booting from an EVO 960 for a year prior to using these. (It boots about 4 seconds faster in side by side tests with identical hardware)

This made my laptop start faster than my gaming pc

so far so good. Dont really see a speed difference from the stock Apple drive but havent tried anything. At the very least, Ive doubled my storage space.

I was on the market for the fastest m.2 I could get for sub $120 and this is definitely one of them. Has read and write speeds as advertised which is always great, no fake marketing. Coming from someone who had a 5 year old 7200rpm hard drive this makes a night and day difference I cant express enough how a ssd can transform your pc from acting old and slow to something of this era. 10/10 would recommend and the cloning software that you get for free is also great, it took a little while but once it was done all of my data from my old hard drive was on my new ssd.

i have this SSD less than 4 mothns and already windows telling me there are problems with my drive. i use this drive for normal use. gaming alittle bit . but mostly watching movies on this PC. there is so little information about this drive and the website is so confusing. just buy a samsung ssd which has better software support and better user experience.

The pcie m.2 drive does not conform to the advertised specifications, read 3400 Mb/s and write 3000 Mb/s. Silicon Power replaced the Phison E12 controller with poor quality Realtek RTS5762 controller with a DDR3 DRAM buffer and inferior 3D TLC NAND memory chips were used. Poor performance can be seen in synthetic tests (look the images) but also during real use of the medium. The problem is that customers can be misled and receive a worse product than, for example, they read in older reviews. The situation could be saved by a clear distinction of the new revision. In such a situation, I recommend avoiding the Silicon Power carrier with a wide berth. When I ask Amazon for refund based on warranty they did 15% less of my initial payment. Also I did communicate with Silicon Power about my issue and I was really disappointed by the bad customer service based somewhere in South East Asia. Final tough, never buy again Silicon Power product.