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

MUCH faster than anticipated at around 3ish GB down, 2ish GB up. Generic PCIE 3.0 x4 adapter in a PCIE 3.0 slot; Asus Maximus VI hero/ z87 chipset. Works great as main boot drive. Actual test images attached

Wonderful speed, good price

Bought to upgrade an older Lenovo Laptop from an HDD and it worked perfectly. The Lenovo S145-15IWL has a PCIE 3x4 M.2 slot contrary to some on- line sources that say is a SATA M.2 shot. Crystal Disk Mark showed that the read and write sites are close to the stated specs. Cant speak to longevity yet have only had it installed for a couple days.

This drive was compatible with my latitude E5570, and very easy to install. It would only boot from initial power on in my latitude 5500, when the machine rebooted the drive would not be found.

Had to initiate a return on this after a whole month of utter headache with it only being detected about half the time. I bought it in the first place to replace an SSD that was having issues on boot with being detected by the BIOS (sometimes even shortly after the system booted, leading to a freeze as I was getting ready to start programs up on the desktop!)...and found the issue even worse on it. I reasonably concluded that it was actually the motherboard at fault, no biggie, as I still needed the drive to replace my three smaller drives with a cheap unified fast storage solution that could last for years to come... Except that with a brand new motherboard, the old SSD was always detected, and this...not. I tried everything from disconnecting all other drives to disconnecting the GPU to not using a heatsink I bought to updating the BIOS firmware to messing with obscure BIOS settings...and it was all for naught. My experience is not the norm of course, and supposedly theres basically always a 1 in 50 you get a bad drive (anecdotal evidence from searching though suggests it may be higher for SP hardware...), but I must express frustration about the apparently poor testing done on these drives before they ship out.

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 ...

Good speed I just slap windows on it and use sata for other stuff. I would only recommend it to hold windows and drivers.

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

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.

Perfect for what its intended for