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

I bought the 2TB model. The installation was simple; just make sure your board has the right M-Key M2 slot. I just turned off the computer, put this drive in, booted up, and went to the computer management portion in Windows to partition and format it. It was a very easy and fast process. It should be noted this drive uses QLC memory, which is the worst and cheapest. If you are doing a database workload or will utilize heavy writes, like writing 200GB+ files regularly, you wont be happy. If you plan to use this as a drive to store applications such as games, youll be quite happy. This drive has a decently sized SLC cache, so as long as the file writes dont get large and frequent, itll make the drive overall fast enough; by that I mean 2GB/s or very close to it. If the writes are large and frequent, this drive will be slow. If that is your workload...pay for it with an appropriate drive. My use case is a drive to store all of my games. With many being over 50GB now, you need a big drive if you have lots of games like I do. For this purpose, the drive is outstanding in terms of value. It delivers great performance in the use case of reading all those textures and feeding the RAM and CPU. If you want to use this as a boot drive, you can. It will work well in this case, but there are better options if you want outstanding performance. Still, this is a big upgrade if youre using a magnetic disk or old SSD. As to the durability of QLC, if your use case is application storage, this really shouldnt be anything to worry about. Unless youre doing very high write workloads, the SSD will last a long time. I have a 10 year old Intel SSD, and the Intel tool says it is only 10% through its life, and I used that as an OS drive for many many years.

I bought this to replace a smaller evo m.2 that housed my OS. I downloaded the Intel Data Migration Tool off of the Intel site and it was great. Fastest, easiest, cleanest transfer Ive ever done. Plus the software is free as long as you have an Intel drive. If youre worried about the performance of the drive compared to other ssds, dont. It is just as fast as my evo was and because of the extra space, my system is speeding along. I used my second M.2 slot on my MoBo and the whole transfer of my boot drive and files around 220GB barely took 2 minutes. The longest part of switching drives, was turning off my pc to install and uninstall ssds. After I used my pc all day for some work, I transferred all 92GB fallout 4 to it from a much slower sata drive in 2 minutes, watched the read and write speeds and the 660p wasnt breaking a sweat, just waiting for the poor sata SSD to read the files. So I played Fallout 4 for an hour just so I could give the for gaming 5 stars. I forsee no issues with the drive and I will give an update later on down the road as to longevity. I also recommend getting the Intel SSD toolbox to keep the drive trimmed and firmware updated, its another free program on the Intel site. TLDR; Get the drive its fast and big, use free Intel Data Migration Tool to upgrade to this huge M.2.

This drive, while by no means a performance model, is just fine for the daily driver user. The five year warranty is soothing, given the lowish but really just fine 400TBW wear rating. Having said that, if you edit video, move a lot of large files on and off the drive or are using any caching application (say, bcache or in a zfs system), or you are a developer using a lot of virtualization, or database apps, etc, then you might want to go with a drive like the Samsung 970 Pro or even Optane. These are faster, and have in the range of 3x the TBW rating. But are roughly 3x to 10x the cost! If you really need that performance, you already know it. It could even be nice for gaming because you know your money is going into other components, and this is so much faster than hard disks in any case. In general if you are putting this in a notebook, or otherwise have a normal, general purpose use case, then save your money with this bursty QLC ssd that is engineered to be indistinguishable for typical use.

Not very fast, but compatible with almost every motherboard and can be had a good price.

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

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!

Great value for money vs. the storage space. I was only surprised by one thing. This is listed as a 2 terabyte drive but only 1.9 is available once it is formatted. This bothers me for some reason. Make more storage space upon manufacture so that after formatting it shows as a full 2 terabyte drive. This drive does not come with a support suite like Samsung drives do for health and trim features. If you appreciate that sort of thing, then the Sammy drive might be a better fit for you. I had to manually go out and try and find useful utilities for this drive. Really, there should have been documentation on where to go on the web to grab these tools. This drive is 3 to 4 times faster than my old SATA SSDs and I am noticing a difference in transfer speeds. Im very happy so far but it has only been a couple of weeks since purchase. I dont anticipate any future problems though.

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

Not only is it fast, but the read/write speed is blistering fast!

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.