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

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.

Maybe Im just starting to get old, but 100 bucks for a 1TB NVME SSD is a great deal. Its blazing fast and stays cool under the small heatsink provided with my Gigabyte Aorus B450 board. 1540 read, 1381 write and a sustained write of 1023. Ten times faster than my HDDs and at least twice as fast as my 850 EVO sata SSD.

This really increased the speed of my loading times, I am using an older i7 and wanted a slight upgrade for speed and this item was way more speed than expected. It wont make gaming better but as far as load times the difference was phenomenal and very easy to install. I have moderate computer building experience so watch so.e videos to decide if this is something you can handle.

I wanted a cheap SSD to store my games and stuff on, after having far too many hard drives die. I assumed a cheap 2.5 SATA SSD would be the cheapest, but no, this was. The write endurance isnt fantastic, but its far more than most people will need (If I remember correctly its 200 writes, aka 400TB for the 2TB SSD. Which doesnt sound like a lot, but you could write 100GB a day for 11 years with that, and most people dont even write that much.) Its fast and cheap, but it gets HOT. I would highly recommend buying a heatsink, you can find one for like $6 which will prevent it from slowing down through long writes, and probably make it last longer.

I’m running 2 of these in a storage pool for a total of 2 Tbs. Are they the fastest drive on the market? No but they work well enough for the average person. Sustained writes tend to bog the controller down but if you’re coming from a normal sata ssd, you’ll be very pleased. My first solid state drive was an intel 160gb sata II back in 2008 and it’s still running. I have no reason to believe that these drives will outlive the system they are installed in.

Intel solid state drive comes without OEM box and mounting screw. This is no big deal. Works and performs as advertised.

I got this for some data that has directories with 10s of thousands of files in some of the directories. A standard spinning disk takes minutes to return a search result in the application that manages that data. Years ago I moved to a 500 gig ssd that took search times to just 5 second or so for the same search. Then I moved to a 1 tb ssd running at about 450 and with the increased number of files still maintained the 5 second search time. I was just running out of room on the 1tb drive and wanted to increase performance as well as capacity and I found this on sale for under 200 dollars. Its not as fast as a Samsung NVME but even at about 1/3 the speed its still 2+ times faster than an ssd. I put it in a aftermarket pcie card on my desktop and copied the almost terabyte of data over and though I was going to melt it down. Even with an heat sink it got to hot to touch and data transfer dropped to under 20mbs. It took a long time to copy the data. However once that was done and it cooled down speeds rose back to 1000mbs and my normal data transfers to it of a few mb to maybe a gig at the time run blazingly fast and searches come back in maybe 4 seconds now. It wasnt as big of a jump in performance as I wanted but it was significant and at the price which was less than the standard 2tb samsung ssd I looked at it has done stellar duty.. Its been in daily use for about 6 months now.

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.

Bought this on recommendation from Tech Deals vid, no regrets. If youre on a budget, not looking for the best of the best or just a regular consumer, this is your go to. It dont have record breaking speeds but it has record breaking price. If you are rolling in cash then by all means grab a 2 TB Samsung 970 Pro Plus. In terms of benchmarks, this is below the top line NVMEs but in real life applications, the realistic performance difference is not noticeable, like a 1 sec slower OS boot time, 2 secs slower game loading or 1 min slower render timing compared to top end NVMEs. Even if youre a heavy user/content creator, why waste all the cash when you could have pumped that into a better gfx card, mobo or cpu. With regards to endurance, for the general consumer and even heavy users its an unnecessary worry. Most likely you wont even hit half the endurance limit after warranty ends. I have SSDs(used as gaming, OS, storage drive) a decade old but not even hitting 30% of the endurance limit. Unless youre a content creator who writes 1tb worth of data daily, it shouldnt be an issue. SATA & M.2 SSDs cost the same with poorer performance, only reason you get these SSDs is cos you dont haven enough PCIE NVME slots. Works great as a boot drive, game drive or storage. Im personally gonna use Intel 660p on all the PCs at home as boot/game drives.

I’m giving this 5 stars because of the price. The performance is definitely admirable! However, it’s not as fast as other NVMe drives. Amazing bang for your buck drive, more than double the speeds of 2.5 sata drives, well worth the money! Ugly green! Definitely get a heat spreader. Also, not that any M.2 drives really do, but the cooling on this thing sucks. Under heavy loads you will get throttling. I put a cheap $20 spreader on it and have 0 issues with heat/now this ugly green thing isn’t messing up my black/red board