First off, I had experience with this brand, when MyDigitalSSD has an earlier model, also 3rd gen PCIe, only it had MLC cells, which surprisingly marched with the expensive & I believe one of the 1st retail MVMe SSD's, the Samsung 850 EVO. For a third of the price (no promo). Bought two when reduced to $59 each.
Anyway, although this one had TLC memory, it not only kept up with the 950 PRO, this model out ran it for then, a third or less of the price of the Samsung 950 (at release, over $300 for 512GB). My only regret is that I didn't also get 2 more of these, 2 are still in my safe unopened, the original is kicking tail in my Z97 self-built PC. It's connected to a Sintech PCIe x4 adapter & the only part that needed to be replaced was the rifle bearing fan to double ball bearing type of same size.
Have had this NVMe drive for so long, forget when purchased, but did work well with an ASRock Z97 Extreme6 MB. While it has a slot for this type of drive, the Phison controllers were said to run hot at times, so that's why I installed to a PCIe 3.0 x4 lane on the Sintech adapter. In fact, this is now how I install all of my NVMe drives, keeping these away from heat, while giving them a small, adjustable speed fan at the same time.
When it says on the package that it's time to move to GB/sec, My Digital SSD meant it! Blazing performance for pre-2020 hardware & very affordable. Can't find these anymore, just some Super Boot 2 mSATA drives, what a shame. Although have purchased several brands since due to being on promo, these are still in the boxes arrived in, locked away. Those were the days of "cheap" NVMe drives!💪
| Hard Drive | 960 GB Nvme |
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