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

Theres nothing wrong with it, faster than sata 3 for reads/writes , but their slightly more expensive P34A80 (Gen3) has a lot better read / write performance. like $3 on a 512 , Its worth for an OS Drive.

Great SSD for the price working as it should

Had an HDD that had pictures and music on it that was getting noisy and showing bad sectors. I purchased this, cloned the bad drive, and everything is honky dory! Makes a great second drive.

This thing is fantastic for the price for sure. I do a lot of video editing, music producing and gaming, all have faired well on this SSD.

I recently picked up two of the 1TB drives for for an older Dell Precision T7910 Tower. This machine is a beast but really needed the benefit of booting from an NVMe drive. There are no native M.2 NVMe slots on the main board so, I installed these two drives onto a Dell designed PCIe non-RAID card. The card uses PCIe 3.0 x8 lanes for both SSDs (x4 per SSD) parked in an x16 slot. I am really impressed the performance of these SPCC drives. I have run CrystalDiskMark on both and attached to my review. I am pushing almost 2600MB/s on each drive for sequential 1M reads. Pretty fast for such an inexpensive SSD. I also over 2000MB/s 1M wrtites. These numbers exceed everything I have seen for these drives. I noticed that the two SSDs are not identical, I posted a picture of the two drives mounted on the Dell PCIe card, from the side you can clearly see that one drive has fewer chips than the other, the label is stuck on the circuit board versus onto chips like the other drive. They both show up the same in CrystalDiskInfo with one exception, the SSD that has fewer chips run 20 C hotter at idle. Seems peculiar that they would not be identical, maybe a change in the hardware revision. I am very happy with the drives at this point and I think they are a great value for the current market. Purchased: 02/03/2023 for $48/ea. UPDATE: 02/27/2023 I answered my questions regareding the extreme variation in temperatures as reported by CrystalDiskInfo, 64 degrees C on one drive and 40 degrees C on the other. The added photos show two very different versions of the drive which I received. I was not paying attention to the differences when I first installed the drives and did not notice the obvious changes in the versions. In the photos, the drive marked REV.B manufacture date is 42nd week 2022, the drive marked REV.C is dated 45th week 2022. The older REV.B drive is the one with fewer chips which only cover about 2/3 of the circuit board it runs hot ~60-64 degrees C. The newer REV.C drive has chips which populate the entire 2280 board, this is the drive that runs at around 40 degrees C. I purchased a couple of heat sinks to attach to the drives, they are actually running a little hotter than when the drives had the Dell board fan shroud intalled (the shroud would not fit over the drives with the heat sinks in place). I think I will order another drive and see if I get another REV.C, if so, Ill return the REV.B A little picky perhaps, but I prefer for the drives to be identical.

Not too fast but good enough for quickly loading games and movies , good as general big storage.

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

First and foremost I am a huge fan of SP products - in fact, I consistently buy all their products for various hardware applications for the last 2+ years ... however ... despite the phenomenal price point and highly reliable physical devices, SP consistently relies on 3rd party software which is VERY, VERY glitchy for their SSD and M.2 hardware installation (cloning) which makes it very unfortunate since it wrecks the overall experience ... specifically, the NTI Echo software is a glitchy, ill-conceived piece of software that caused me to waste 2 days installing this otherwise wonderful piece of equipment into a brand new Dell 5575 ... the process to acquire the NTI Echo software is insanely complicated and SP does a very poor job of explaining how you need to prep to get it Step 1. YOU MUST have the actual serial number off the device (not the box) to even attempt to download the software - you dont find out about this until you already installed the device and closed your laptop - so now you have to re-open the laptop, remove the M.2 and take a pic. or write down the specific serial number which also has way too many 0 and O that you will have to trial and error several times Step 2. Once you finally register and download the software, the next step appears to be a straightforward single screen with 2 drop down menus BUT ITS NOT!!! - if you are cloning 2 drives that are already in the laptop then its no problem at all and it executes in record time - however - if you are cloning drives using the USB option the NTI Echo software leads you to a reboot and endless looping no matter what you do until either you remove and erase the drive and essentially start from scratch or you manage to find the obscure help from other users through endless on-line searches that advise you to enter the laptop recovery mode and then attempt to fix your Windows Boot Record to get rid of the pesky NTI Echo instructions that are now loaded into memory - this literally took 2 days of various trial and error and endless research for the obscure instructions from some other desperate and angry user who was a good Samaritan to leave instructions on this mess ... worst part the Win10 installation did get corrupted and forced a complete, clean reinstall all the same which also forced the full reinstall of application so cloning was one giant BUST! Ultimately I recommend the SP hardware but use other true and tried software to do your cloning ...

Cheap ssd for gaming good value

I currently have this installed in an NVME external enclosure, so am not getting the speed that I would get from having it installed on the motherboard. It is working very well though as I am using it. I will be installing this on my motherboard in a couple of months, as I upgrade some other things. The memory works great.