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

First nvme and my god have the prices come into reality. This kind of nvme was easily $500 about 2 years ago. Absolutely blazing fast, phenomenal price for the performance. Get one, in fact get two. Dont buy a heatsink, the label is actually a very well designed heat spreader. The memory likes to run hot while writing like 50-70C, while the controller likes to be cold. The controller heats up, which then spreads to the memory through the heatspreading label and helps to bring the memory temps up. Because lets be honest this thing wont be writing for more than a few seconds at a time. If you cool your memory and lets say it never gets above 40C while writing, youll be damaging your drives longevity writing below optimal temperatures. Dont bother even buying a heatsink with the thermal tape and cutting in so it only touches the controller because then the heat from the controller still wont be spreading to help bring the memory temps up from ambient to where they like to be. That little metal label is actually pure genius, very simple and keeps your drive healthy. The only time it would probably be worth to cool your nvme controller more aggressively is if youre writing 24/7 with it at which point the memory will heat up enough on its own and stay there over long periods and you can really crank down on the controller to keep it from throttling.

Great product and works and runs exactly as described

I mainly got this as a replacement for my storage SSHD, but I now use it as my OS drive as well. My computer boots faster, file transfer are snappy, games load faster (though not much more noticeable than my older 850 Evo). If you use this for everyday use/gaming I dont think youll be disappointed. This all being said, there have been some changes to the device since many of the reviews came out. The one I got is no longer single sided, I havent been able to verify the controller yet, but if its single side 1TB its not the Phison E12 model. Having compared performance benchmarks to those on Tomshardware, the drive performs worse. In short, great SSD for the price. Great for every day use. However, the model has been changed since the original Phison E12 versions, so dont expect performance like you see in many reviews of the drive.

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.

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.

When I upgraded my computer, I never heard of this type of storage. Everything I read, suggest this m.2 PCIe driver is faster and last longer than the SSD device. This was my first time getting it. Only if my love life was the same. When I try to insert the device into the slot, I notice that I need a special screw. I looked for the screw that might fit under the roof, but nothing fit. The screw was too big and the hole was too small. What a love life. The package does not come with the special screw, so I have to order one. Finally I was able to screw it tightly. Yes, the speed it real and it have lasted more than 2 years and no doctor was called.

using it for a dedicated steam game drive, it loads games fast .. is why i got it !!!

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.

Okay I bought a top of the line samsung evo pro nvme for my operating system and I bought a 1 TB silicon power for games. This thing works exactly as advertised. Yes it is a little slower then the samsung. But for what I wanted it for, night and day difference. If your upgrading from any other ssd you will notice a difference. When it comes to games....if your playing a lot of multi player games...you are probably gonna be stuck waiting on the guy with the slowest load times. So getting a stupid fast samsung is just not worth the money. If you plan on using this for games it will work extremely well. It will work for your operating system. I just wanted the fastest possible one for that which samsung still holds the crown for. But for the $ to value. This thing is unbeatable. Easy to install, does not come with a stand off post or screw. So if you dont not have either of those just go buy them from amazon for like $7.00. You will need them. If your are looking for a quality nvme at a cheaper price point then samsung then just grab one of these up because you will not be dissapointed.

The installation was difficult. I wish they would add the tiny screw needed for installation. My new MSI MOBO didnt have it but was saved by a different MOBO. The docs were nonexistent with the device. I was able to see a barcode on the label and it brought me to the website. There I read about installing and cloning the source. What is NOT mentioned is to be careful what you use to clone the source. Sector size does matter in the process and not all clone software are the same. The echo that they supplied worked flawlessly. I might add it took 3 minutes to transfer 200GB. Nice I only gave it 2 stars for install for lack of direction and docs.