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

The whole reason I bought this drive was because of the YouTube installation video I found where the owner specifically installed this drive on an X1 Extreme. The installation was easy, but I will advise any other X1X users out there to make sure they do not strip their screws! The manufacturer used way too much loctite on these screws so I ended up having to use needle nose pliers. Other than that it is running great and the storage is exactly the same as other drives I have used. Similar speeds for a fraction of the cost.

Well folks... I have 7 NVMe drives. Samsung (3), WD, ADATA (2) and Silicon Power. Guess what? None came with a screw. If your motherboard did not come with one screw per M2 slot, blame the MB manufacturers not the ssd manufacturer. The three Gigabyte motherboards I have all came with one screw per m2 slot. Now for all of you whiney babies... get over it. Oh, by the way, this is a great drive but time will tell. Hopefully a better experience than a Samsung. Ive had this since October 2021 and is is running in perfect trim. Constant 28c under load with a NVMe passive cooler. Read/Write speeds are a bit better than advertised. Running MacOS 12.2.1 on a Mackintosh.

I download about 6 Tb of data each month and that data is stored on two 32 Tb external drive enclosures with four much slower 8 Tb traditional 3.5-inch mechanical drives. The speed at which the data comes in is much too fast for the enclosures to write the data in real time creating a huge bottleneck. So instead of writing directly to the enclosures, I used my solid state NVME drive to a large cache the incoming data as it comes in. Then the data from that cache will trickle the content to my enclosures. But there was still bottlenecking and some latency when I was just using one of these Silicon Power NVME drives. So, I purchased another one and a PCI-E to NVME m.2 adapter. I created the RAID 0 in my BIOS so that the two drives would double my storage space, but also increase the read/write speed. After installing my OS and updating all the drivers and software, I ran a benchmark on the RAID 0 and was extremely pleased to see how much faster two of these Silicon Power NVME drives performed together please see the screen capture that I uploaded. For my purposed, this setup work great. I have the RAID split into two partitions. The smaller one has my OS and apps installed on it. The much larger second partition is set aside for some backup storage, but it also serves as the first place my downloads are stored prior to being sent to my external drives for permanent storage. With the price of 2 Tb PCi-e Gen 4 drives hovering around $400 and the price of one of these 1 Tb drives at $99 at the time of this writing, using two of these drives was much less expensive even when the PCI-e to m.2 NVME adapter which cost about $20 was included in order to create the array. So, for almost half the price of a gen 4 2 Tb drive, I was able to get the same high performance at about half the price. For my needs, Silicon Power came through for me and I couldnt be happier because the bottle neck is gone!

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.

Like the price the Read speed is good 544 mb/s the write is a little slow in the 300 mb/s. I worry the life is going to be much shorter than my Western Digital SSD 500 sata.

I bought a 1tb nvme ssd from you guys about a week ago, and it works great! I went with SP because it had the best bang for the buck I could find without sacrificing on read/ write speeds. I needed to transfer all of my computers data from an old HDD (yuck), and after switching to nvme I cant ever go back. Boot times and system response times are so much faster, and my HDD has been relegated to archival purposes only. - Cant rate for longevity, Ive barely had it in a couple days, but all the benchmarking Ive seen says that it will be more than adequate for a very long time for my uses :)

Update:: my year old laptop nvme still doing great, have built multiple new pc with these and never seen one fail. If you have a heat sync it does very good but if not it’s fine, my intel 660p gets much hotter. The pic says it all... using crystal disk I took info as well. I idle at 28c during the hottest part of the stress test we hit 65c for only a second then 60,54,49,45,40,36,30,28. Extremely fast temp changes only was at max few seconds and this was still under 70. Will update if longevity holds but so far so good. Be sure to verify your board can support nvme if running a sata speed m2. If you have not tried NVMe and have a m2 slot I don’t know what else your waiting for. Prices are hovering at same price as m2sata for m2 nvme. Works great on my dell g5 laptop

Had issues and contacted the manufacturer. Prompt response. Removed from motherboard and placed in an enclosure to resolve the issue (drive become read-only for some reason).

I purchased the 1TB module. If youre like me, youve poured over reviews trying to maximize performance per dollar. According to umpteen reviews Ive read, this card ranks very highly in that regard. I assumed that was the card Id be buying, but thats questionable. BUYER BEWARE: The only similarity between this card and the one in all the reviews youve read is the Phison E12 controller. The current model no longer uses Toshiba flash, rather its using flash from a company called Unic, a Chinese flash manufacturer. I entered the chip markings into Google hoping to stumble upon some specs, but no dice, this flash memory is essentially unheard of as far as Google goes. To add a cherry on top, the DRAM buffer is now comprised of Nanya DDR3 modules, no longer the faster Hynix DDR4. At first glance this appears to be a classic bait and switch, but I *cannot* confirm this as I have not run any testing on this newer variant. In essence, if you purchase this, realize you will be taking a gamble on performance, as all review sites have reviewed the old revision with Toshiba flash & DDR4 buffer. My thought is that if SP is going to make a major change to SSD components, they reflect this change through a different model number or revision suffix, instead of sweeping the changes under the rug and hoping nobody notices. I am genuinely curious how this card compares to the older one performance-wise, but I decided I wont be that guinea pig; Ill choose a different SSD brand for my new build.

**Notice: this is an NVMe (PCIe) drive, NOT a SATA drive** I purchased this drive, along with a compatible USB adapter, to upgrade my laptop. With the adapter, the drive worked just fine. It did seem to produce quite a bit of heat, even when idle, but apparently that is common for M.2 drives. However, it was not until I had properly installed the drive in my laptop that I realized it was not the right format for my system.