SYONCON AP425 M.2 2230 SSD NVMe PCIe Gen 3.0X4 Internal Solid State Drive Compatible with Steam Deck/Microsoft Surface pro 8/pro 7+/pro X/laptop3/laptop4/laptop go/book3 (512GB)

This 250GB drive is NVMe M.2 2230 so make sure your socket is properly keyed for it. It comes well packaged with a tiny screwdriver and screw. This is a small card. IUts about the size of an SD card. I mounted it on my Xiwai Low Profile PCI-E 3.0 x1 Lane to M.2 NGFF M-Key SSD Nvme AHCI PCI Express Adapter Card and had no problem. My Linux box had no issue detecting it and I used GParted to initialize it with no problem. A 29GB file transfer (mix of photos and large mp4s) completed in just over 5 minutes. And that was from a SATA SSD source to a PCI-E x1 interface. The manufacturer specs list High-Speed sequential read/write speed up to 3,200MB/s and 2,600MB/s, random read/write speed up to 320K and 300K IOPS respectively. Designed for the new Gen3 x 4 PCIe slots, PCIe 3.0 and NVMe 1.3 compliance., so mounted on a new gen interface, performance will be much better. Thermals werent bad on it, its not a finger burner, but a heat sink wouldnt hurt. Not a bad drive at all. It carries a 3 yr warranty.

Bought a used surface pro 7+ and it only had a 128gb hard drive which was not going to be enough. After creating a USB Key Drive I installed this 512GB drive in and after using the USB Key to get Windows 11 on the new drive I have a machine with enough memory to last me a long time. I would recommend this drive as I really dont see any bad things about it plus it has a 10 year warranty so I am not really worried about it.

Put this in my Steam Deck to go from 256 to 512GB and install Windows. Drive was easy to install and I had no issues getting Windows installed on it. Performance and power consumption seem to be great on the Steam Deck on Windows 11 Pro.

I had no issues installing into my Steam Deck, booted up, re-imaged SteamOS and it just worked. Turned my 64GB model into 512GB for about $50, cant got wrong with that.

I was happy to find the set screw and screwdriver as a much needed accessory. The drive was easy to upgrade my 64GB steam deck. The drive is faster loading games and gives me four times the storage. Its been running great. No heat problems at all.

Used this on my Steam Deck. Got the 64gb version and just upgraded the storage. Pretty easy to do and Ive had no issues with this drive so far. Its a little expensive, but worth it.

Its fast, and it was easy to install surprisingly, reimaging was painful but after everything is reinstalled, its fast and reliable!

As part of a vine review, I dropped this 256GB SSD into my laptop with an extension adaptor. After a boot and a quick format, it was up and running with zero issues. Values in the screenshot are from a HP i7 Zbook 17 G3 on Windows 10 Pro. Initially I noticed some discrepancies in the description of the warranty. As I communicated with the Seller via Amazon messages, they clarified the warranty was 3 years, then updated the item description. The rep also noted that assuming the issue is a quality one, they typically will just replace the SSD. They answered my questions within hours, which is one positive data point on customer support/responsiveness for this new company. Im happy with the SSD. It is definitely speedy. Fortunately components like this one have low failure rates, so Ill probably never have a warranty issue. It may not be the cheapest option, but you are getting a decent warranty, a quick SSD and a responsive support system.

Installed easily and so far have had no issues

I wish I had gotten a larger model but this thing absolutely performs up to spec. And the most amazing thing about it is whatever they are using for thermal management is works very well and it never gets nearly as hot as my other SSD drives. That’s a tremendous bonus. I guess because this is made to go into specific gaming devices they need a stricter thermal management system. For now I’m just using it in a portable enclosure. Because that enclosure has a heat sink I can feel the heat come through the case and I’m not feeling a lot with this drive, even when it’s in continuous operation for a while. I’m gonna end up putting this in a custom music player as storage. It will be much more responsive than an SD card and it will still have very small power consumption and not put out much heat. And it will transfer music many times faster than flash cards. I typically would not buy SSD from names I don’t recognize. But so far this thing is working well and I will keep the review updated to let people know if there were any problems going forward. But for now I’m pretty impressed with this.