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

*I bought the 512gb version* Ive had the ssd for a little over two months now and i use my laptop about 6hrs a day, and its work super fast and great load speeds it loads as if my apps were never closed! thats how fast! I had upgraded from an hdd, but i still use the hdd as storage and swapped the os and all my other applications on to the ssd so now all of my apps and os run at super high speed, pcie ssds are the first and best thing to upgrade when you want to make your computer faster. This nvme ssd is by far one of the most value for your money ssds out there I did tons of research on other products but I was also not wanting to spend $~160, becaase I was also buying some ram for my laptop (Also Silicon Power Ram!) The only trouble I had was with the copying and formating but theres tons of helpful youtube videos out there for it. Super easy to install to, theres also youtube videos on that to and also make sure you watch different kinds of youtube videos to gain all around specific knowledge and opinions to help mold you choices. great quality too!

Most All M.2 / NVME drives deliver performance. Silicon Powers 512GB offers everything a Samsung M.2 has at a lower cost. (I own two of these). This review will start out with practical information the moving into the more technical aspect of the SP 512GB NVME drive. This will be a long review. The biggest concern for anyone buying this is: How can I use this if I dont have a slot on my motherboard for a M.2 SSD?. You need to get an adapter like this: QNINE NVME PCIe Adapter, M.2 NVME SSD to PCI Express 3.0 Host Controller Expansion Card This M.2 NVME SSD is the right key for the above adapter. The key is just the notched pattern for the NVME drive. (without getting too technical about it). You can put the drive + adapter into any PC that has a PCI-e slot. BOOTING from the NVME Drive may or may not be supported by your motherboard. Your operating system has to be 84-bit and supports UEFI; Windows 7*, 8*, 8.1* or Windows® 10. (Check your motherboard information about UEFI and NVME) If all this sounds technically confusing you can do this: 1) boot off a regular 2.5 inch SSD drive (have your Operating system on it). 2) install the PCIe adapter + M.2 NVME drive into your PCI-e (x4){version 3.x} slot (check your motherboard specs) 3) make the M.2 a secondary drive like D: or E: or F: (all you have to do is format it, windows will give it the drive letter) 4) install any heavy loading programs on the M.2 I have this above outline configuration. Heavy programs or data goes to my M.2 Drives. You can even get two of these and make the M.2s into a RAID 0 stripped drive for double the speed. My advice is to format the M.2 as ReFS.ReFS protects against data corruption. (see attached image) (SKIP this section if you are not interested in ReFS formatting) Checking if TRIM is set for your ReFS formatted drive: 1) click on start or type in the windows 8/10 search box CMD 2) once you see CMD right click on the black icon and select Run as Administrator 3) type in the black window (Command Prompt) that just opened: a) fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify 1) NTFS DisableDeleteNotify = 0 (says that TRIM is active for NTFS) 2) ReFS DisableDeleteNotify = 0 ((says that TRIM is active for ReFS) 3) if you get = is not currently set for either NTFS or ReFS You can enable it with the following command: a) fsutil behavior set DisableDeleteNotify ReFS 0 (this will set TRIM for ReFS) b) fsutil behavior set DisableDeleteNotify NTFS 0 (this will set TRIM for ReFS) Silicon Power M.2 NVME Drive: Speeds: (Crystal Disk Mark) {See attached image} (NTFS formatted) - READ and WRITE speeds: 2,000 MB/s (ReFS formatted) - READ speeds: 2,000 MB/s - WRITE speed: 634 MB/S (due to error/checksum checking) Write speeds are slower on ReFS due to error/checksum checking. 634MB/s is still SSD fast. ALL NVME drives are subject to thermal throttling which means once the M.2/NVME drive reaches a certain temperature the onboard chips will throttle down the speed/transfer to save the chips from overheating. Larger, longer transfers will trip the thermal throttling so just be aware it isnt the manufacturers fault but the nature of the NVME design overall (across all manufacturers) My systems have SP SSD drives installed. I do large data transfers almost daily. SP drives keep pace with Samsung on speeds. Reliability cant be gauged on a short-term basis. Most of my drives are a year or younger in age. I do suggest trying either this M.2 drive or one of SPs other SSD drives. If you have an older system that doesnt have PCI-e (3.0) or greater to go with a regular 2.5 SSD drive. You really wont notice the difference. If all this sounds overwhelming find a geeky friend to help you out. I hope this information helps someone out. I always try to revise my reviews as needed.

I purchased 6 of the 1tb p34a80 model NVMEs. I put all 6 drives into a pool of 3x 2-way mirrors. R/W performance was on par with the advertisements, I wasnt expecting to surpass those speeds with the pool as the PCIe riser card nor my motherboard support bifurcation to take full advantage of the PCIe lanes available to the card. Note that even in a pool of 6 drives, the speed transferring files tanks after the cache has filled on these drives. These drives were close to being a 5 star product. One of the drives starting propagating read errors less than 24 hours after installing. Amazon is replacing the drive. Will update how the replacement does over time

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!

Needed a new drive to throw a lot of virtual machines at and I agonized over choosing between this and other Phison E12 models and the HP EX920. I decided on this one because tech is a little newer and flashy and the 5-year warranty. Initially I got read/write speeds of 2400/2700 and wasnt too happy, but it was better than the drive it was replacing (which had speeds of 2200/1400) so I decided to stick with it. After a week of use I realized Windows 10 had automatically encrypted my drives with BitLocker after a fresh install. I turned off BitLocker and happy to see I now get the advertised speeds of 3200/3000. Even the primary VM I run on it gets 2900/2700. Nice! Also happy to see it came with the latest firmware (ECFM12.2 as of this writing) - one less thing for me to muck with. So far, so good - would buy again!

Put it an external case-- able to format it & install a couple games on it. It gets very hot & loses connection to W10. All drivers are up to date & cables secure. I have a different brand case & smaller SSD that work fine.

I tested this drive with crystal disk mark, the read speed is 3500mb and the write speed is 2100mb i purchased the 500gb a80 this drive also comes with dram. I am using this hdd for my Operating system and it is running super smooth on windows 11

First tempted by crasy TBW warranty, then realized I will not live long enough to get it worn out. Anyway, works as intended, speeds are satisfactory, total steal for the money. Use it as a second drive in home setup, nothing hardcore.

Was very easy to install if you got the new m/b with m.2 socket. Getting rid of unnecessary cables. So far, this has worked great and I even benchmark to see if the claim of its reading and writing were true, sure enough it was. However, my overall score reflected it from my previous use of SSD HD and I thought this would make a bit of difference as SSD did for me from mechanical HD. But nope, barely noticed any speed difference, however, the convenience of not having to hook up wires and make your internal looks of your computer ugly, I would buy this again for another build.

This was a great price but it had one bad sector so it was no useable for cloning my original NVMe. I am hoping the longevity is not indicative of that.