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

Prior to this SSD drive, I had a SanDisk 960 GB SATA SSD M.2 drive. I am transferring files at ~200-400 MB/s with that drive, but this Intel M.2 NVMe SSD blows it out of the water. I would personally say this is in between the speeds of SATA SSDs and high-end NVMe SSDs since I was getting benchmark speeds of ~ 1.4 GB/s. It was super easy to install on Windows 10 Pro 64 bit OS on an Alienware 17 R3 laptop, and I plan on transferring this drive to a new laptop in the future once the 9th gen Intel processors release to retain data. Keep in mind that this isn't a glorified Samsung Pro series NVMe SSD, but it definitely raises brows amongst the tech community in terms of value and performance. At a rated 200 TB TBW, this NVMe drive will go a long way. Let's say I transferred 10GB of data daily... That means I would be writing 3.65 TB of files a year making this theoretically capable of lasting about 55 years. Realistically, I plan to replace this drive after 5 years of use due to the exponential advancement in tech... In the meantime, this is the best deal you can get from a reliable company in regards to speed, reliability, endurance, and value. Overall, this makes a perfect storage drive for content creators, gamers, or tech enthusiasts looking for value and performance.

NVMe SSD drives are finally coming down near SATA SSD prices and this unit is a beast for the cost and performance. While not as fast as offerings from Samsung, the 660p drive's QLC NAND flash makes up much of the difference by having an additional 240GB SLC cache in front. This cache is a revolving buffer that writes in background to the QLC. Once filled however, you may find files in the 10s or 100s of GBs may slow down at some point but, that's a lot of fast NAND to fill up for the average user. Power users pushing very large video or audio files for editing however may not be as satisfied as they can conceivably run past that cache size and begin writing directly to the QLC NAND. At that point, writes become slower than even the worst SATA SSD's on the market due to QLC's very poor write performance. Drive lifetime is another consideration. From longest to shortest TBW: SLC > MLC > TLC > QLC. QLC's total TBW (Terabytes Written) is about a quarter of MLC I believe, meaning you are sacrificing longevity for cost however even at 400TBW, this will last an average user 3-5 years and those who don't game much or edit media will see longer times. This number however is for the QLC memory only while the SLC will have a longer lifespan. Some percentage of users don't even fill up the 240GB of SLC giving them exceptional value with a drive of this design. In summary, for most users who want fast load times for video games or even just getting into Windows or Linux in seconds, this drive is fast enough that you won't notice the difference between this and a higher performance NVMe SSD. Power users needing the higher initial and sustained throughput of something like Samsung's EVO PRO line may not be as happy with the performance of these QLC drives and should probably stick with TLC/SLC drives. EDIT: Update 1 year later - With the drive a little over half full, I've used only 13.7 TBW out of 400. I do a ton of gaming on this machine and expected a much higher number. Also, I did finally fun into an issue with the front side SLC cache filling up during a large copy from my RAID but using Intel's SSD Toolbox I was able to clear the cache with a single click and bring performance right back up to full speed maxing out my RAID's read speed at about 420 MB/s. Pros: Price/MB Front-end SLC cache makes it a good performer Cons: Shorter lifespan than other NAND technologies (low TBW) Once exceeding SLC cache, drive can be VERY slow - NOTE: use the Intel SSD Toolbox to clear this periodically and you'll be fine.

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 won't be happy. If you plan to use this as a drive to store applications such as games, you'll be quite happy. This drive has a decently sized SLC cache, so as long as the file writes don't get large and frequent, it'll 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 you're using a magnetic disk or old SSD. As to the durability of QLC, if your use case is application storage, this really shouldn't be anything to worry about. Unless you're 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 it's life, and I used that as an OS drive for many many years.

大容量なNVMe SSDの中ではかなり安く、メーカーもIntelな為、信頼性は高いと思います。 しかしながらQLCな為、TBWは従来のSSDと比べかなり減っており、どれぐらい持つかが心配です。 intel純正のツールを入れてると、寿命が推定値で見れるので、ツールのインストールは必須だと思います。 読み/書きは十分な速度が出ており、ストレスはありません。 そもそもSATA SSDと、早いNVMe SSDを比較しても体感では早さを全く感じる事が出来ないので、 そこまで高速である必要は無いのではないかと思います。 無名メーカーのどんなNANDを使ってるか分からないTLC SSDを買うぐらいだったら、 これを買ったほうがいいと思います。

Diese Platte habe ich mir für meine Spiele gegönnt besser gesagt zwei davon. Warum zwei? Ich betreibe die zwei SSDs im Raid0 Verbund und komme so auf 3225 MB/s Lesen und 2797MB/s Schreiben. Zum Vergleich, meine Samsung EVO 860 schafft 543MB/s. Das kann sich sehen lassen. Jedoch ist diese SSD definitiv nicht für Leute die sehr viel Daten Traffic auf der Platte verursachen, da die Garantie bereits bei 200TB bei der 1TB Platte erlischt. Daher verwende ich diese ausschließlich für Games. Die hat man länger drauf und muss überwiegend nur Lesen und das zügig. Das Laden der Games ist unglaublich schnell!! Fazit Preis/Leistung ist Top! Jedoch ist die Platte nicht für Jeden geeignet. Für Games hingegen ist sie Perfekt, am besten in einem Raid0 Verbund.

One of the cheaper drives on its market. Not a speed demon by any means, but definitely decent given its price tag. I decided to buy it to use in my Synology NAS as an M.2 read cache (which is probably a bad idea given that this flash type wears out faster and is rated for less writes than others) but no other SSD could beat the price at the time of my purchase. Overall the NVMe SSD is functioning well and caching stuff properly without any hiccups

Installé dans un ORICO NVME M.2, fonctionne très bien pour des transferts rapides de fichiers volumineux.

I'll keep it short. What makes this drive great is the SLC cache. It allows for incredible write speeds for a couple GBs, and then it slows down during a sustained write operation. That's because this is a QLC SSD. However, unless you specifically write a ton of data on a regular basis, this drive is perfect and it will save you money, and Intel tends to make reliable good stuff :)