WD_BLACK 1TB SN770 NVMe Internal Gaming SSD Solid State Drive - Gen4 PCIe, M.2 2280, Up to 5,150 MB/s - WDS100T3X0E

Runs a little hot 50ish c so the heat sink might be a good option. Didnt come with a standoff so if u dont have one youre going to need a kit

Put it in my PC and have had no issues at all.

The WDSN770 is one of the most affordable 2tb NVME drives out there right now thats also very reliable and has a decent TBW. When youre buying a flash device people are mainly interested in how big is it and how much does it cost. Sometimes people look at how fast is it. Just as important as those 3 questions is how long will it last. Flash memory because of what it is and how it works has a limited number of times it can be written to before it dies. Its the job of the controller on the SSD to keep track of how many times each cell on the drive has been written to and perform whats called wear leveling, where the drive moves data around to even out where writes take place so one part of the drive doesnt go bad before others, or minimize it anyway. TBW stands for terrabytes written and every SSD has a lifespan measured in TBW. Cheap drives and smaller drives generally have a lower TBW. Ive seen other 2TB ssds with as low as 300-500 TBW but this wdc drive in the 2tb model has a TBW of 1200.

Garbage

I picked this SSD up for a custom game focused build with a minimal mindset so the 1TB capacity worked perfect for me. The drive has performed wonderfully and has given me no grief. Ill likely add another one or two to my build as I need more fast storage.

After installing it and restore image to it, windows will randomly hung at start, or take very long, there are many unexplained hung throughout... After checking windows event viewer, a lot of ntfs error, chkdsk did not help, smart test both quick and long return status as healthy. In the end I pull it out and restore image to previous drive (a raid 0 of Intel 660p) all is well again. Pretty sure its defective.

Boots up super fast and was easy to install !!

Excellent all around.

Great and very fast NVMe

It runs cool in my build, access is fast, in short: as advertised. The price was outstanding.