Intel 660p Series M.2 2280 1TB PCIe NVMe 3.0 x4 3D2, QLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) SSDPEKNW010T8X1

I installed this as a secondary SSD to my MSI GS65 Stealth 9SE. Aside from the process of tearing down the GS65 (MSIs fault), this was a quick and easy install. The drive was easily recognized by the BIOS and Windows 10. CrystalMark Benched this at 1.7GB Read and 1.7GB write which is pretty good for the price. Sure its no Samsung Evo 970 Pro, but you have to factor in that the Intel drive costs 3X less. This drive is totally worth it!

Its OK, good!

This drive is outstanding for general everyday use. I use it to store my Steam library, movie collection, photos, and a lot of archival backups and that sort of thing so it has worked great for me for the past 3 months. I bought this drive because my new laptop doesnt have slot for big 2.5 mechanical drives and instead only has 2 NVMe slots. I chose a fast SLC NVMe SSD (Samsung 970 Evo) as my primary boot drive to get stupid-fast speeds for my operating system + apps and then chose this Intel 660p SSD as my storage drive where I keep the rest of my bigger files that dont necessarily need to be accessed ludicrously-fast. Dont get me wrong, this is still a very speedy drive and its served me very well and I have no complaints, but remember that youre buying this to get a huge amount of storage at a really good price (for NVMe SSDs anyways). Other 2TB NVMe SSDs can be twice as expensive. The value is the amount of storage, not the performance or longevity. Thats the benefit of this drive. You will get pretty good read and write speeds, especially with relatively smaller files (a couple GB) but once the SLC cache fills up performance will dip substantially (see screenshots). Writing files that are several hundred MB or a couple GB usually goes very fast, but bigger files will slow down after the initial burst. This drive can be great, but just consider how youll be using this. You can probably use it as your boot drive and install Windows just fine, but thats not the ideal use case of this drive in my opinion.

The product arrived in perfect conditions, it works really well, I didnt have any problem with it

There isnt a lot to say about it. It comes as advertised, plugged it in and it worked, simple as could be.

This NVMe drive is fantastic for the money. Sure, it uses lower endurance QLC (the 512GB model only has a write endurance rating of 100 TBW), but unless youre writing a large amount of data to the drive everyday or are planning on using this in a commercial transactional database, it should be fine for most users. Im getting good write and read speeds (1600 mb/s read and ~1000 mb/s write) so the performance is solid. Overall, if youre looking for an affordable NVMe SSD, you cant go wrong with this.

Im putting this review in the spirit of NVMe drives. I dont have any issues with this drive vs. what I expected of it. Works great; highest temp I have seen under heavy operation is 60C. However; if you have a write operation; read tends to get blocked. I cant unpack a 10GB gz tarball while listening to music on the same drive without experiencing (~20 sec) buffering. And that is after I left 500GiB unallocated space as suggested in the comments to give space for caching. From what I understand; this is not a real NVMe drive; but a more superpowered SSD sort of deal; but I am more software rather than hardware person so i dont know how useful or true that statement is. Excellent choice for home folder drive; but I suggest a better performing NVMe for an OS partition. Extreme bang for your buck; I got this when it was on prime and 185$. I would say you should go for better options for 250$; as you can find similar 1TB NVMes around the same price point; but better performance. I would really rate this 10/10 and would buy it again (like 2 times) for the same price. Excellent drive for data storage. Not as fast as advertised though, and has the simultaneous read/write issues; so takes off a star since this is in the nvme department. EDIT: Just thought to mention that I use encryption; and read was not an mp3 but a minimally compressed flac file. So in general; higher load than what average users would expect out of these operations.

Let me start off by saying that I bought this particular SSD because I wanted an SDD with 2TB of capacity and triple the speeds of a normal Sata 3 interface and this drive does exactly what I wanted it to do and more! I had to purchase a YATENG PCIe add in card since my HP z420 Workstation doesnt natively support an M.2 NVME SSD and I wanted an SSD that would get triple the speeds of an average Sata 3 SSD with all of my Steam and Uplay Games installed on a secondary drive. I consistently get over 1,500 MBs Read/Write with speeds up to 3.3 MBs at times before throttling down as the SSD heats up; but I have NEVER been below 1,500 MBs EVER with this SSD! My load times for my games are now between 3-7 seconds depending on the game; instead of the typical long load times I got from a Sata 3 SSD or even an Enterprise Class HD! Anyone that has DIED in a game and had to wait for it to reload again knows what I am talking about! For the performance I get from this drive even after having to purchase an add in card to use it; compared to a Sata 3 SSD that costs 2x the price still suffering from the Sata bottleneck, this is a no-brainier to me!

I wanna start by saying that I did not buy this as a drive for my operating system. Mostly all of my storage is solid state with the exception of a single 2TB hard disk that I was using as an overflow for games. It wasnt able to load large games quickly at all and took forever. So I upgraded to this solid state drive and it’s been worlds better. This solid state drive is not anywhere near as fast as others, especially Samsung nvme drives as well as the new PCIe gen4 ones but when it comes to game load times you won’t notice any difference between this and those but this is still faster and a SATA based SSD. My only complaint is that for the slower speed this thing runs crazy hot. Overall the price you pay for the 2TB version is a great deal and I would definitely buy another one for one of my other systems when I need more storage on one of them.

Used mainly as a drive for storing resource intensive games. Couldnt be happier with the results. Installed on ASUS H170 board, i7 6700, RTX 2070S. - Load times cut by half or more. Impressive. - Noticeable frame rate increases in nearly all games. - Install was a little goofy. Board was lacking the riser screw to sandwich the end of the card. Had to hunt one down to install. All in all a significant performance bump. Must have for gaming PCs, and great value compared to its performance rivals.