Intel 660p Series M.2 2280 1TB PCIe NVMe 3.0 x4 3D2, QLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) SSDPEKNW010T8X1

Can someone help me? Im getting HDD speeds off this drive, and Idk if Im doing something wrong or its just a bum drive. I installed it today (re-seated it twice to make sure) and flashed bios update the night before. Im getting about 200mb read and 150mb write. Id hate to leave a bad review if its just my fault, but for now, Ill leave it at 3 stars unless someone can help me. I7-6700k 4.00ghz (oc to 4.5) Asus Z170 Pro Gaming Motherboard. Edit: had a lot of supportive friends on facebook but ended up figuring it out myself. I think what finally did it was manually updating the driver and manually partitioning the drive. I went from 300mb read speeds to 2gb, 2x the quoted speed. Write speed is similar, but Im using this as a steam drive, so read speed is my main concern. Actually just found the image that I posted to facebook to reassure my friends. Yeah, I was totally fine with 1gb read and write, but 2x performance? damn. I7-6700k (4.00) running at 4.6 Asus Pro Gaming Z170 MB 16gb Kingston HyperX Savage 3000mhz ddr4 ram Gtx 1080 sc

This item needed to be enabled in my BIOS before it would be recognized and for it to be a boot device I had to shut off FAST BOOT also in BIOS. Once I did that I am very happy with it. It benchmarks almost twice as fast as other SSDs i have in my system. Knocked off one star for lack of documentation that should have come with it regarding BIOS adjustments. Overall I would recommend it and buy it again.

I wanted a cheap SSD to store my games and stuff on, after having far too many hard drives die. I assumed a cheap 2.5 SATA SSD would be the cheapest, but no, this was. The write endurance isnt fantastic, but its far more than most people will need (If I remember correctly its 200 writes, aka 400TB for the 2TB SSD. Which doesnt sound like a lot, but you could write 100GB a day for 11 years with that, and most people dont even write that much.) Its fast and cheap, but it gets HOT. I would highly recommend buying a heatsink, you can find one for like $6 which will prevent it from slowing down through long writes, and probably make it last longer.

So Ive had a 5TB mechanical HDD for a couple years and Im sick of it, wanted to cut the extra wires and slower speed, and move the 5TB HDD to a NAS. But I didnt want to lose the space. So when these got down to less than $200 each, I finally decided to buy two of the Intel 660p 2TB m.2s and RAID0 them. I was worried about there being issues doing this on mainstream platforms, due to no PCIe lanes and only the DMI 3.0 on Intel, but theres no issue. Im not worried about the speed from RAID0, just having a 4TB NVMe SSD, and thats what I got. Its great. I also bought two EK M.2 heatsinks to go with them, and they idle at about 32°C, and only get to about 36°C under load. I no longer need any Sata cables for HDDs or anything, just my two m.2s. Im super glad I did this, but now a week later and the drives are $185 instead of $195. But what can ya do. The drives are great! Good bump in speed over my Intel 750 Ive had for 3 years or so. And I couldnt be happier. Great deal.

The product arrived in perfect conditions, it works really well, I didnt have any problem with it

The Intel 660p offers 2 TB at one of the lowest prices for PCIe-based SSDs. Its usually fast, but it can be very slow at times. Thats because its QLC, which is the slowest type of SSD memory. Reads from QLC are fast, but writes are about as slow as an average hard disk. The 660p is usually faster because it has a dynamically sized SLC cache--it treats roughly half of the unused space on the drive as an SLC cache (i.e. disabling the other 3 bits in each cell). Most of the time, its about as fast as a typical SLC or MLC NVMe PCIe drive. If youre writing a large amount of data, or if your 660p is mostly full, it may feel like a hard disk drive.

This isnt the fastest nor does it have the most write cycles, but i was using a HDD to start with. So for me the speed increase was still pretty great, and for my average use, this will still last longer than i will probably need it to before I eventually upgrade again anyhow. If you are looking to get more space for less $ then this is where it is at, but if you arenplanning on pushing it to its limits with tons of writing and rewriting, then you might want to look elsewhere. Again, this is not the fastest or longest lasting, but it is definitely faster than my old HDD and will last long enough for me to get into upgrade territory and maybe a little beyond that. *Depending on your usage your milage may vary.

Quad Level Cell (QLC) Nand is a co-op of Intel and Micron. These chips do not seem to sacrifice performance to value like other entry level TLC chips may. While this Nvme drive does not perform like an EVO, it does not cost as much as an EVO. Crystal Disk benchmark reflected an as advertised transfer rate with the slowest results as Ive included. This is with 40% of the drive being occupied. Empty and freshly provisioned my highest was over 1900 MB/s read and just over 1800 MB/s write. I suspect that performance may tamper down as the drive space becomes consumed but time will tell. At $8.77 per GB when purchased, this is something Im will to accept. As for the QLC technology and its durability, time will also tell here as well. I do recommend this component to expand or replace current slower storage components like HDD or SSD drives based on the performance to cost ratio.

This is the cheapest brand new 2TB NVMe SSD you can buy now. Though the price per GB is really low, the performance penalty of QLC NAND flash really hurts when you run out of the SLC cache. Sometimes it may even dip below 100MB/s. This is a great warehouse for your massive Steam library but I do not recommend using it as your boot drive for Windows. Also the greater the total capacity, the greater amount of SLC cache it have, so I am only comfortable recommending the 2TB version.

Well I upgraded, or tried to, upgrade from a standard 512gb SSD to this and once I figured out that my brand new motherboard required you to disable some SATA ports, I got it to work. Tested the speeds and it was pretty impressive reading and acceptable writing. Yes there is a cost for lower priced SSDs and write speeds can supper under some heavy loads. The problem came up when I tried to transfer over 400gb of data from the old SSD to this one. It got about two thirds of the way and then stopped working. When I touched to SSD it almost burned my finger. The combination of heavy use and the small surface area of the unit makes this, and to be fair most all M.2 SSDs run hot... VERY hot which I have read can be normal. In my case the unit stopped working and I had to ship it back. Had I to do it over again I would add a small heat sink on it to help dissipate the heat. Yes it runs that hot. I did not take a temperature reading because it stopped working but if something gets so hot that it can burn your skin, well in my book, no matter the supposed design, it runs too hot. They sell cheap M.2 heat sinks on Amazon, just search for one. I highly recommend it for this and all M.2 SSDs if you have the room.