Silicon Power 1TB - NVMe M.2 PCIe Gen3x4 2280 SSD (SP001TBP34A60M28)

Had to initiate a return on this after a whole month of utter headache with it only being detected about half the time. I bought it in the first place to replace an SSD that was having issues on boot with being detected by the BIOS (sometimes even shortly after the system booted, leading to a freeze as I was getting ready to start programs up on the desktop!)...and found the issue even worse on it. I reasonably concluded that it was actually the motherboard at fault, no biggie, as I still needed the drive to replace my three smaller drives with a cheap unified fast storage solution that could last for years to come... Except that with a brand new motherboard, the old SSD was always detected, and this...not. I tried everything from disconnecting all other drives to disconnecting the GPU to not using a heatsink I bought to updating the BIOS firmware to messing with obscure BIOS settings...and it was all for naught. My experience is not the norm of course, and supposedly theres basically always a 1 in 50 you get a bad drive (anecdotal evidence from searching though suggests it may be higher for SP hardware...), but I must express frustration about the apparently poor testing done on these drives before they ship out.

The 512GB A60 drive surprised me considering the cost. Using CrystalDiskMark, I got the following scores: SEQ1M Q8T1 - 2417 MB/s read, 1184 MB/s write SEQ1M Q1T1 - 1986 MB/s read, 1183 MB/s write RND4K Q32T1 - 297 MB/s read, 358 MB/s write RND4K Q1T1 - 48 MB/s read, 184 MB/s write This was achieved without using a heatsink on the M.2, with 5 passes of a 1GB file in CrystalDiskMark. The drive performs significantly better at sequential reads than seq. writes, while also performing better at random writes compared to reads. As long as the device stands the test of time, it is an excellent bargain purchase, exceeding its advertised read speed (albeit falling a bit short of its advertised write speeds). I will update this review if the drive fails prematurely.

Perfect for what its intended for

For the price this m.2 drive is hard to beat, installation was easy and performance is awesome.

Muy bonito y todo, pero no trajo tornillo... me toco rebuscar en otro lado jajaja

This drive replaced my factory drive and has been going strong with no issues.

I have been daily driving this SSD since September of 2022 and it works amazing, its more budget oriented but it doesnt feel like that at all! Highly recommend!!

I wasnt expecting much for the price but it blew me away. I was getting about 1400 megabytes per second. I thought for this price it would be like 500 or something. how can your complain with 47 dollars for a 1TB SSD. thats insane.

Una chimba ese m.2 abre todo rápido, lo único es que segun crystaldisk se calienta mucho 65C pero de resto muy bueno y estable