Silicon Power 2-Pack 256GB NVMe M.2 PCIe Gen3x4 2280 SSD

For the price, this is a very fast, reliable and easy to use drive. It is solid state so it is fast and reliable, but can get hot in extreme conditions. I use this with a Blackmagic 4.6k ursa gen 2 and it works like a charm. No issues with transfers, dropped grams, or down/uploads. Used it to back up several gigs of data and smoked through it like butter. If shooting in 4K at the higher bit rates it will get hot. I have it in an inexpensive aluminum case, no bigger than the drive and it has not failed but does get hot, especially if your shooting in the sun. It’s a good drive at a good price. I own a lot of simple brand drives, memory cards and all have been rock solid. I highly recommend this company.

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: 02/27/2023I 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, I'll return the REV.B A little picky perhaps, but I prefer for the drives to be identical.

Needed a decent m.2 drive for a client in a budget build around a mATX board. This drive is a good fit. No frills, plenty of space for a few bucks. At this point I am still burning in the new build, but was easy to set and it runs beautifully so far.

I just received the product today for use in a usb m.2 adapter. It's was exactly what I was looking for, Easy to install, Formatting was simple. I had no problems in the entire process it was a regular and expected process.

For the budget price , you can't go wrong with Silicon Power or Team Group. Make sue you check the specification for the TLC not QLC. I choose this since it's $1 cheaper than the Team Group one's. 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 I'm 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

Pros- More than fast enough for 99% of tasks. If you need a bit more speed they have a higher speed version for ~15% more at time of writing.- High capacity for dollarCons- One failure at arrival due to CRC error. Possible this made it past QA but more likely damage of some description during shipping. The package was bent but not around the drive, still may have been some deflection which caused issues.OverallI highly recommend this drive. I'm currently populating an Asys Hyper M.2 gen 3 card with three of these and one in the faster version for rapid photo editing. It makes a massive difference running the software library and files off a single drive and moving off SATA SSD to these is significant. Even moving from this version to the Silicon Power A80 2TB, which is a touch faster, speeds things up marginally (not enough for most people to notice but when you're loading a library with ~10k photos, 500GB, and the library files to support it there's a difference). I'll be submitting an RMA for the one failed drive but I want to note this is the 12th drive I've purchased from them and the first failure. Several have been in service over five years. I have NO ISSUES with the brand thus far.

I already have a 2 tb hard disk for my computer build but i added this as a primary drive because i wanted to boost the speed of my computer, it did work and wow is it fast. Its so fast it makes my phone seems like a cave mans tool. The only thing that was not easy was partitionong the drives.. dont pay for the drive partitioning program its free online.

I started getting these drives because they are cheaper than the name brands while still delivering the same quality.

Bought this for just under $200 thinking i would save a couple of bucks since gen3 is still pretty fast anyway. I dont move massive files, so this is suitable for me and around same price as a 2.5" samsung 870.big mistake. it arrived just before i left for my travels, and i managed to install in on my system just as the return window closed. IT. DOES. NOT. FORMAT.The laptop can detect the drive - but it remains unformattable and unusable. Pulled it out and put it in a known good working order nvme enclosure (a WD 770 1tb was living there before i put this in), and again computer detects its but unable to format.So laptop doesnt work, and USB 3.2 nvme enclosure doesnt work - so i go to my main gaming station and slot take turns slotting it into my 3rd nvme slot. nothing. 2nd nvme slot. still cannot format. 1st nvme slot. still unable to format.$180 piece of junk - not even good enough for paperweight.DO NOT BUY.

This is my go to for the price/performance ratio. Really great to see NVMe SSDs at such affordable prices especially when not so long ago they were exclusively for higher end builds.

Replaced existing smaller Samsung NVME drive with this bigger one.The good:* Low cost* Works well for most cases.The bad:* Slow for random I/O. The Samsung drive was significantly faster.Overall I am quite happy with the increased disk space at a reasonable price. Have not had any issues for a month of using it. Hopefully it lasts long.Simple I/O test on Linux:~ » hdparm -tT /dev/nvme0n1p2/dev/nvme0n1p2: Timing cached reads: 32108 MB in 1.99 seconds = 16157.87 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 1698 MB in 3.00 seconds = 565.34 MB/sec

like it.very good.

Works as intended. Cheap and better than SSD. Might as well get this nvme