Timetec 1TB SSD 3D NAND TLC SATA III 6Gb/s 2.5 Inch 7mm (0.28) 800TBW Read Speed Up to 550 MB/s SLC Cache Performance Boost Internal Solid State Drive for PC Computer Desktop and Laptop (1TB)

I was looking for a cheap SSD to improve my fathers old and very low profile laptop (it has a Pentium N processor). Laptop was very slow and the best improvement that you can do in this type of tin cans is put a SSD and wait for the results. I must say that the outcome is impressive (given the hardware characteristics). It powers on in just ten seconds, and the performance improves substantially. I must admit I look for the cheapest SSD I could find in Amazon, mainly because I wasnt expecting so much improvement in the hardware. But watching the results, I can say this disc worth each penny. It is so cheap, and performs exactly the same or even better than any other SSD from more famous brands. This is all for now. I want to see the performance in the long run. Since my father only uses internet and office software, I think first he will throw out the entire laptop before the SSD breaks or exceeds the 400 TBW.

I replaced my spindle drive in a laptop with this chip using an M.2 SSD to SATA 2.5 enclosure and it worked like a dream. The speed and performance increase is significant. This was a great combination and was a very good purchase for me.

price is good speed is ok I used for os

Works great

Summary: The drive failed to boot one week after Windows 11 install. Ran HD tune utility from a flash drive and found 2% of the SSD sectors were damaged (See pictures)! Drive died during reinstall. Detailed review: I bought this SSD to replace my 256 gigabyte SSD that had run out of space. My computer also has a SATA slot that contains a two terabyte HDD, which is used as storage. I backed up the content of my boot drive, installed the new drive, and installed Windows 11 on it. Initially, it worked fine, and the drive was even faster than my previous Kingston SSD. About six days later, the Windows Disk Checker screen popped up during a restart. I didnt think much of it, and let it run to completion. The following day, the computer stopped booting. I tried using the windows repair utility and failed. I even had a restore point set up, but even that failed. After that had failed, I decided to boot up from a flash drive and run a few tests. The HD tune test showed that 2% of the drive sectors were damaged. I really didnt want to waste time on uninstalling the drive, returning it, and waiting to receive another one. So, I attempted to erase the drive with an eraser utility. This utility writes over all the existing data, making sure that your original data is no longer accessible after erasing. Modern SSD drives come with firmware that should detect bad sectors and replace them with good spare sectors. I thought that maybe the erasing process could engage this ability and fix the bad sectors. I was wrong. The SSD completely failed to the point that it was no longer detectable in the computers BIOS. This SSD is most likely manufactured using rejected wafers from major SSD manufacturers. These chips can be rejected for a wide assortment of reasons, such as not hitting speed benchmarks, or consuming a little too much power. Companies can buy these chips at a very large discount, and oftentimes they work fine but, without adequate testing, its completely a game of chance. Final thoughts: I understand that everyone wants to save money, and this is the cheapest one terabyte SSD on Amazon. Im lucky that my damaged sectors were in the beginning of the drive and that I found out about the issue within a week of using my computer, rather than several months like some other reviewers have said. If you still want to buy the drive (I wouldnt recommend it), go ahead, but make sure to run a complete test on it before trusting your data to it.

easy to install and ha given very good use after some weeks of daily use

Id like to say up front that this was my first SSD, so I had mixed feeling about changing from a HDD ( In this case, a WD Black 750 GB) which I had updated/upgraded from Windows 7 Pro to 10 Pro, using Acronis True Image 11, which Im familiar with and comfortable using. I had problems right away with the size difference, which Ive also had experience with and usually handled by using a manual method of partition-sizing, but had difficulty with this time. I finally decided to clone my source drive to another HDD (1TB) and try again...still had problems, but ended up using another HDD cloned backup with 7 Pro to make a successful cloning of the new SSD (both 1 TB) and finally doing a new update/upgrade to the SSD, now containing 7 Pro, to Windows 10 Pro. Note: after doing this last cloning of the SSD I noticed a message about a driver being installed for a new device which turned out to be the new SSD. This was the first time I noticed this message....the good news is everything now seems just fine - all is well. Long story short - Im happy with my choice of upgrading to Windows 10 and an SSD....I can hardly wait to move up to 2TB.

I installed the chip and it worked great as so as it was formatted.

I bought four of these (Timetec 1TB SSD NVMe PCIe Gen3x4 8Gb/s M.2 2280 3D NAND TLC 600TBW High Performance SLC Cache Read/Write Speed Up to 2,000/1,600 MB/s Internal Solid State Drive for PC Laptop and Desktop (1TB)) and mounted them in the OWC 4M2. As you can see from the screen shot from BM Disk Speed Test Im getting very respectable R/W performance. This is on a Mac Studio M1 Max. The theoretical limit of the 4M2 is 2800MB/s so this is pretty close considering that these NVMes are Gen3. Unfortunately as others have stated, the 4M2 fan is a bit noisy. Not bad loud, so this may be an upgraded fan (I just bought the 4M2 at the same time as the NVMes) from what they have used in the past.

Never heard of TimeTec before but decided to take a chance. The 1TB SSD is performing perfectly It’s faster than my previous HD which was not an SSD but a seagate internal drive. No latency in the Audio DAW and no frame skipping and buffering on the video editor. Just using Garage Band and imovie .Amazing frustration free performance by the TimeTec SSD I had a very hard time using the slow seagate regular hard drive. SSD is the way. Thank you TimeTec for your fantastic SSD Highly recommend and will order one more