Silicon Power 1TB - NVMe M.2 PCIe Gen3x4 2280 SSD (SP001TBP34A60M28)

One of the slower SSDs but just fine for adding to a portable case or using as a storage drive. Works great so far and the price was right (under $80 at the time I bought it).

Using as a cache drive in UNRAID. Nothing is overtop of it. And whenever its in use, its hitting 60 degrees Celsius easily before the system has to just pause and wait for it to cool down. I have a heatsink on the way, as it obviously needs it, but I struggle to be optimistic at how much itll help. I have a 120mm fan now leaned on it, and its only made a small difference. I may end up trading it in to get something from a more known (and not cheap) brand if the heatsink doesnt help enough.

For the budget price , you cant go wrong with Silicon Power or Team Group. Make sue you check the specification for the TLC not QLC. I choose this since its $1 cheaper than the Team Group ones. For the money, it has the best price to performance. ADATA/XPG is also a good brand too, but seems most of the model are out of stock. I used to buy the Crucial P1/P2 Series, they may have the better performance for the buffer, but when the buffer run out. The speed are extremely slow. All for the QLC. Besides . Crucial P1 has only around 200TBW for 1TB if Im not mistaken. This Silicon Power 512GB has 300TBW, Hugh difference. Though the manufacture claimed the heatsink is not required. You may consider one since on full load, the temperature can go as high as 65c witho ut heatsink. After heatsink , the fully load is about 50c. The heatsink I use is Thermalright TR-M.2 which is more than enough for this SSD

For the price this m.2 drive is hard to beat, installation was easy and performance is awesome.

A cut above the rest, fast and affordable

I remember when this type of storage was so expensive, and when these drives were shipped; Amazon would put them in big over-sized boxes. There would be air bags in there to protect the drives. Now that the price of 3D Nand has dropped, Amazon just ships these in flimsy plastic bags. These drives are susceptible to bend stress when packaged this way. Also, this brand initial packaging is very light. I bought a Samsung EVO drive of the same capacity, and it was packaged more securely. Besides that issue, these drives are great for quick budget builds, or if you want to add fast cheap storage to an external M.2 enclosure. I am going to use this to upgrade my sons current gaming PC. He will be upgraded to a Ryzen 5 2600X on a ASUS Prime B450M-A II motherboard, with 16 Gigs of DDR4 running at 3200 Mhz. His current M.2 is a 256 Gig drive.

Very good stuff highly recommend

A cut above the, fast and affordable

Performs adequately Great storage

Great value for money. Perhpas wait for any ongoing sale to get further bang for your buck!