Timetec 1TB SSD 3D NAND TLC SATA III 6Gb/s 2.5 Inch 7mm (0.28) 800TBW Read Speed Up to 550 MB/s SLC Cache Performance Boost Internal Solid State Drive for PC Computer Desktop and Laptop (1TB)

I used the 1tb drive for my steam & epic store games storage, it started acting up a couple weeks ago. I didnt know what was causing issues with my games a couple weeks prior to today and I assume the problems I had then culminated with todays events where games refused to get past the splash screen so I guess it had bad sectors? I tried to format the drive but windows kept giving me an error stating it couldnt format the drive, I shut down the laptop and made sure the sata cable was still secure and it was, but I pulled it out anyways and reinserted it again and turned it on. Before the ASUS splash screen popped up, it said S.M.A.R.T. Bad Drive, Backup, Replace but the drive is recognizable by windows and the folders are visible but I cant delete the folders and when I try to view properties or run check disk, windows explorer hangs and then locks up forcing me to forcibly shutdown the laptop and restart it. I even tried to go through the process of reinstalling Win11 and got to the screen where I could format drives, I tried to format the timetec and got the same issue I had when I was on the desktop. I bought this drive on Feb 16th, it lasted only 3.5 months, I guess you get what you pay for.

So far so good. In general, it has better in read-write performance and so lower latency than my mechanical HDD.

Timetec not a household (or even geek) name. But the excellent pricing and Amazon return policy, (and company reach-out) prompted me to git this 2TB SATA 6 drive a try. I cloned quickly and easily with Acronis and I was rewarded with 10-20% faster boot-up than my previous Crucial 1TB SATA SSD. No reason to think this wont last. Would absolutely buy again, and may soon, for another @TB upgrade on another computer.

I really appreciate Timetecs straightforward advertising, especially putting the TBW value in plain sight, which is rare. When Im browsing another brands SSD offerings, and theyre focusing on MTBF ratings, and I have to follow a trail of links to a footnote on a PDF somewhere to find the actual important specs, theres nothing to see here. Meanwhile Timetec is making it easy by laying out all the important specs like IO speeds, TBW, SLC caching and flash type in the title or first paragraph of their product descriptions. The product itself is solid so far, and I look forward to buying more Timetec products.

Excellent cheap SSD, I used it as a third drive in my PC for backup storage and OS images, and it works pretty well

i have had it installed for awhile in one of my systems under moderate constant disk load. No issues so far.

Summary: The drive failed to boot one week after Windows 11 install. Ran HD tune utility from a flash drive and found 2% of the SSD sectors were damaged (See pictures)! Drive died during reinstall. Detailed review: I bought this SSD to replace my 256 gigabyte SSD that had run out of space. My computer also has a SATA slot that contains a two terabyte HDD, which is used as storage. I backed up the content of my boot drive, installed the new drive, and installed Windows 11 on it. Initially, it worked fine, and the drive was even faster than my previous Kingston SSD. About six days later, the Windows Disk Checker screen popped up during a restart. I didnt think much of it, and let it run to completion. The following day, the computer stopped booting. I tried using the windows repair utility and failed. I even had a restore point set up, but even that failed. After that had failed, I decided to boot up from a flash drive and run a few tests. The HD tune test showed that 2% of the drive sectors were damaged. I really didnt want to waste time on uninstalling the drive, returning it, and waiting to receive another one. So, I attempted to erase the drive with an eraser utility. This utility writes over all the existing data, making sure that your original data is no longer accessible after erasing. Modern SSD drives come with firmware that should detect bad sectors and replace them with good spare sectors. I thought that maybe the erasing process could engage this ability and fix the bad sectors. I was wrong. The SSD completely failed to the point that it was no longer detectable in the computers BIOS. This SSD is most likely manufactured using rejected wafers from major SSD manufacturers. These chips can be rejected for a wide assortment of reasons, such as not hitting speed benchmarks, or consuming a little too much power. Companies can buy these chips at a very large discount, and oftentimes they work fine but, without adequate testing, its completely a game of chance. Final thoughts: I understand that everyone wants to save money, and this is the cheapest one terabyte SSD on Amazon. Im lucky that my damaged sectors were in the beginning of the drive and that I found out about the issue within a week of using my computer, rather than several months like some other reviewers have said. If you still want to buy the drive (I wouldnt recommend it), go ahead, but make sure to run a complete test on it before trusting your data to it.

I bought this cheap ssd for my first PC build ever thinking it would be OK to cheap out on atleast one component as everything else on my pc was expensive but GOD WAS THIS A MISTAKE. (I have used this ssd for approximately one year) First issue I had with this my PC was random heat spikes from the cpu which led me to believe the cpu was just a lemon but I stuck with it anyway cause it wasn’t a big deal. SECOND my sound setting would randomly jump up and down in games and in movies, sometimes even just looking at the actual sound setting you could watch all of them jump from 70-100% sound like a ghost was messing with me. Again I ignored this as I didn’t want to spend another 300$ on another CPU. THIRD issue I had with this PC my ICUE program would not run properly and neither would my LCONNECT software, fan lighting was a horrible experience so I was convinced it was the software. FOURTH ISSUE startup turned into 1-2 minute long start ups and I was also created with a “repairing drive c, press any button to cancel this” I had no clue what that ment, everytime I went to download stuff onto the drive it was working fine so I didn’t think it needed any type of repair. FIFTH AND FINAL PROBLEM: I could no longer install or delete anything onto the drive as once I restarted the pc everything would magically reset to its previous settings (example: I deleted iCUE, then reset my pc and boom it magically reappeared. I installed valorant then reset pc then boom it magically vanished. I was so frustrated as I thought this was some type of critical hardware failure, I couldn’t even play video games as after around an hour the whole pc would just crash. Finally I decided to try to fix the issue by starting with a new much more expensive name brand ssd and a fresh install of windows. My PC is now running faster then ever, sound bugs fixed, ICUE programs and lian li software running like a dream, do random heat spikes on my cpu no random crashes on my PC. This ssd has been a curse on me for over a year and because of it I almost spend another 300-400$ on components that I didnt need. (I know what your thinking, I must have downloaded a bunch of malware or things of that nature on the ssd, WRONG this pc and this ssd were used for Video games ONLY unless steam and riot games gave me a virus which I highly doubt) Do yourself a favor and spend extra cash on a name brand ssd unless you really don’t care about your pc and the information on it. Im finally free from this curse of an ssd. If I could give 0 stars I would.

Worked great at first, performance was adequate. However, I started to notice weird behavior with the drive whenever the usage goes above 80%. It becomes unresponsive/slow until I delete old files to clear up more space. Could just be something with my drive.

new gt7 with ps4 pro take life time loading... replace hdd to ssd for Only Gt7 work great. good price.