Amazon.com: Customer reviews: MyDigitalSSD BPX 80mm (2280) M.2 PCI Express 3.0 x4 (PCIe Gen3 x4) NVMe MLC SSD (240GB)

So far so good. (MyDigitalSSD BPX 80mm (2280) M

Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2017

So far so good. (MyDigitalSSD BPX 80mm (2280) M.2 PCI Express 3.0 x4 (PCIe Gen3 x4) NVMe MLC SSD (240GB) This does work in the ASRock X370 Taichi ultra M.2 drive. The board recognized it and installed windows 10 extremely quickly. My temp has been sitting 59-60 C, but I am working on this build with ambient temps 85-90 F ambient temps. I have a EK-M.2 NVMe Heatsink - Nickel installed with this SSD, but only using the thermal pads and top plate with one clip in the center. I expect the temps to be much lower once I move the build to the AC environment and finish installing fans and close the case up.

I purchased this SSD based on different Hardware forum reviews. It's price point for performance was excellent so I jumped on it before even knowing exactly what computer I would be building. After the fact I may have went another rout because of several variables I came across once parts came together. 1st concern was it wasn't on the QVL of the mobo i went with. No one had used it to verify that it would work, but several said it did work on similar AM4 boards. 2nd was Temp. I read that this SSD tended to run on the hot side, but no worries NVME coolers were really coming to market. 3rd was once I bought NVME cooler would it fit, since this SSD has double sided chips and the coolers are meant for single sided. Luckily I came across a demo video for a similar product where user simply installed cooler without bottom plate and clipped in center with single clip: justifying that the controller is what requires the heatsink and it it is located in the center of the board.

Conclusion, this works fine so far. I could have returned it but figured try it since it is supposed to outperform the higher class SSD's, worst case I use it as storage in 2nd M.2 slot. If I can keep the temp where it is and lower as I complete the build I'll be very happy and not hesitate to purchase this product line again.

10/20/2017 Just updating, after 2 months, this drive is holding up great. Lightning quick on ryzen build running windows 10. I'd like to get the temp down some more, still sits at 59-60, but can't complain with it only spiking to 63 during normal use.

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K Guillory

Fast, very Fast - Update sitll working perfectly over 2 years later.

Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2018

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Update. Over 2 years later it is still working perfectly. Installed in 4 different computers and two different exteral cases. It always function correctly and never failed, even with the many installs and uninstalls.

The drive is very fast and very inexpensive. The 5 warranty was the deciding factor between this product and other similar products. I tested the drive several times and it shows similar read and write numbers. The older Crystal Disk Mark program shows some really high unrealistic numbers and I included a picture so that others will not be mislead by those incorrect results. As you can see 2875 and 2046 are not correct, so people should use version 6 or higher for real results. This is my wife's pc that is used for work so the video speed is not important, but she need a 100% reliable pc so I have multiple backups and even a regular SSD as a backup system boot drive. The last two pictures are the results of a popular benchmark program.

Computer Components:
MyDigitalSSD BPX 80mm (2280) M.2 PCI Express 3.0 x4 (PCIe Gen3 x4) NVMe MLC SSD (240GB)
SODIAL(R) Heat Sink Dissipation Aluminum Cooling For SM961 960PRO M.2 NGFF NVMe 2280 SSD
Acer Aspire AT3-710-UR52 Desktop, Intel i7-6700K - doner system - Acer upgraded processor from i5 when it was sent in for repairs
EVGA DG-73 Matte Black Mid-Tower, Acrylic Window, Gaming Case 130-P0-0020-KR - replaced Acer small case
MSI Pro Series Intel Z270 DDR4 HDMI USB 3 SLI ATX Motherboard (Z270 SLI PLUS) - replaced Acer Motherboard
EVGA CLC 120 Liquid/Water CPU Cooler, RGB LED Cooling 400-HY-CL12-V1 - was able to OC to 4.9 max - 4.8 useable and 4.7 continous use without thermal throttling
XFX AMD Radeon RX 460 4GB GDDR5 DVI/HDMI/DisplayPort PCI-Express Video Card (RX-460P4SFG5) - OC'd 15% for general use can OC to 25% but fan noise.
Patriot Memory VIPER 4 Series 3000MHz (PC4 24000) 8GB Dual Channel DDR4 Kit PV48G300C6K - replaced Acer low voltage memory
WD Blue 500GB PC SSD - SATA 6 Gb/s M.2 2280 Solid State Drive - WDS500G1B0B [Old Version] = Data drive
Old 2GB Acer original HDD is used or backups of BPX system drive and WD Blue data drive
SanDisk Extreme PRO 240GB SATA 6.0Gb/s 2.5-Inch 7mm Height Solid State Drive (SSD) - Backup System Drive
Power supply - old 600w with good specs for this computer configuration
Wireless Keyboard and Mouse, Jelly Comb Full-Size K024 2.4Ghz - replaced wired Acer KBD and mouse
Мícrоsoft оffíce 2016 Home & Student Product Key & Download Link, License Key Lifetime Activation - Replaced old Office 2010

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Chambo

Dont waste your $100 like I did

Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2017

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Dont waste your $100 like I did. I thought I could get into the NVME SSD market early and cheap with this drive, but I was way off. Initially the SSD installed into my Alienware X51 R3 just fine, and I performed a clean install of Windows 10 suprisingly quick. After one week of no complaints gaming and lightning boot times however, on a normal shutdown Windows went BSOD on me. Luckily I still had a dual boot of windows to my original HDD so I was able to troubleshoot. The disk was full of bad sectors, and to top that off it permanently write protected itself which could not be removed and the disk could not be formatted. Verified BIOS secure boot off and in legacy mode. Windows could not clear the write protection. DISKPART reported clear but the format would still fail. Windows recovery-fail, windows total reinstall-fail, drive reformat - fail. Neither BCWipe nor Parted Magic boot USB could secure erase, it would just hang when it tried. The worst part about it is i still see my files in My Computer, but cannot erase them as it is locked. So I cant return the drive for fear of someone accessing my info. What a joke. Save your money and buy a Samsung 960 when they are back in stock and avoid this garbage.

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M. Dillon

Solid performer, controller clearly runs hot though

Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2017

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The MyDigitalSSD is a solid performer and takes the speed crown at 2.4 GByte/sec best-case random read of uncompressable data. It has pretty consistent results and I would rank it in the top quartile but below the Samsung and the Plextor M8Pe. The reason I rank it below is primarily for two reasons. First, the QD1 sequential read test is poor, but more importantly the controller clearly runs hot... too hot.

The controller quickly throttles that speed crown down to 1.5 GBytes/sec at around 80C, and the temperature continues to climb under the random read load until it finally caps out at 100C. 100C is too hot. At that point the read test has dropped to 1.1GByte/sec whereas the Plextor can push 1.6 GBytes/sec for much longer before throttling. I think the MyDigitalSSD has something going here, giving us a third mainstream controller technology in the consumer market, but they have some work to do on managing the controller's temperature.

I will conditionally recommend this part as long as you don't use it in a mobile device, with the provisio that both the Samsung NVMe devices and the new Plextor M8Pe series are better. Consider buying a third party heat sink for this device if you purchase it (it doesn't come with one and it should). If you are looking for heavy load handling, consider the Samsung or Plextor NVMe devices instead (or find a good heat sink for this one).

Remember that high temperatures are a major contributor to early flash failure. The MyDigitalSSD is not doing you any favors by running this hot, so be aware of your use case. I like the fact that they went out on a limb using a third mainstream controller (the Phison), but they have more work to do on temperature management. Note that my tests were in a PCIe slot, not a mobile device, and there was plenty of cooling in the case.

MYDIGITALSSD

randread /dev/nvme5s1b <blksize> 100 16
16 threads - WDC_WDS256G1X0C-00ENX0 (16GB area, uncompressable data)
blksize aggregate bw
------ --------------
512 70 MBytes/sec (97 MB/s @ 64 threads)
1024 140 MBytes/sec (194 MB/s @ 64 threads)
2048 280 MBytes/sec (390 MB/s @ 64 threads)
4096 570 MBytes/sec (1001 MB/s @ 64 threads)
8192 904 MBytes/sec (1229 MB/s @ 64 threads)
16384 1260 MBytes/sec (1480 MB/s @ 64 threads)
32768 1780 MBytes/sec (1959 MB/s @ 64 threads)
65536 2208 MBytes/sec (2310 MB/s @ 64 threads) (THROTTLES to ~1450)
131072 2460 MBytes/sec (2367 MB/s @ 64 threads) (THROTTLES to ~1450)
262144 2440 MBytes/sec (2371 MB/s @ 64 threads) (THROTTLES to ~1450)

Sequential read @ 64KB block size: 405 MBytes/sec <--- MEDIOCRE
Sequential read @ 128KB block size: 611 MBytes/sec <--- OK

SPECIAL NOTES ON THE MYDIGITALSSD

* Consistent sequential write bandwidth (16GB, QD1) of 701 MB/s)

* Temperature hits 80C and clearly throttles the random read
test to around 1400 MB/sec in fairly short order. Does not flag
condition but does clearly throttle. However, temperature continues
to climb up to 100C before the throttling stabilizes it (at which point
the read test is only doing 1.1 GBytes/sec). That is too hot and the
main reason for giving it only 3 stars. See other comments.

* Controller clearly runs hot under load.

* Additional note, some reviews indicate that the reported temperature is for the controller chip itself, but I put my finger on all the chips and frankly they were all excessively hot. The controller query is returning a second temperature sensor so it is unclear if both represent the controller... that said, if they do, it means the controller is not monitoring the flash chip temperature which is just as important, which would be a similar black mark.

nvme5: <NVME-PCIe> mem 0xc7400000-0xc7403fff irq 34 at device 0.0 on pci3
nvme5: mapped 8 MSIX IRQs
nvme5: NVME Version 1.2 maxqe=65536 caps=000000203c03ffff
nvme5: Model BPX BaseSerial 8B7107720F0823024374 nscount=1
nvme5: Request 64/32 queues, Returns 7/7 queues, rw-sep map (7, 7)
nvme5: Interrupt Coalesce: 100uS / 4 qentries
nvme5: Disk nvme2 ns=1 blksize=512 lbacnt=468862128 cap=223GB serno=8B7107720F0823024374-1

xeon126# nvmectl info nvme5
nvme5:
crit_flags: none
comp_temp: 100C
LIFE_LEFT: 100% (0% used)
read_bytes: 1228G
write_bytes: 34385M
read_cmds: 30167k
write_cmds: 1049k
busy_time: 12 min (0.20 hrs)
powon_hours: 1
power_cyc: 2
unsafe_shut: 1
UNRECOV_ERR: 0
err_log_ent: 0
warn_temp_time: 0 min (0.00 hrs)
crit_temp_time: 0 min (0.00 hrs)
temp_sensors: 105C

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DAN!

I expected something fast. I'm still surprised by it.

Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2016

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I expected this drive to be fast. It's why I ordered it, right? I figured I'd pick one up to completely minimize any potential slowdowns with my Dell E5470 laptop.

For some reason, there's an argument AGAINST NVMe drives. Some people and reviewers say you won't notice much of a difference in day to day tasks, and I kind of believed it. Even though this drive isn't able to run at 100%, thanks to a PCIe lane limitation in the laptop (x2 instead of x4!), it's still BLISTERING fast.

Reviewers even say NVMe drives will take longer for POST, EXTENDING how long it takes Windows to boot, and that's completely wrong in my case. As soon as the "windows loading" circle starts to make a single circle, it's ready for me to log in. I just don't get it. Overkill for me, for sure. But hey, at least working with large files is quicker than I need?

Final point: Don't listen to the possible negatives from reviewers. This drive is ridiculously fast, inexpensive, and was prime-eligible. Easy to install, and the 10 minutes of effort to install Windows was totally worth it. Even when it's not able to run at 100%. I kind of want to try it out in my desktop, now.

If it means anything at all, I upgraded from an MX200 250gb, and this was a surprisingly awesome upgrade.

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Tayfun

good life span than others

Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2017

Verified Purchase

- Short review is, its a good option with 5 years / 349 TBW life span.

- Simple and good packaging for shipping risks. Hardware is really good, and actually can reach high write/read speeds to. The only problem is its getting hot even you are not using it heavly. But it looks stable, at least until now. Btw do not thing other m2ssd models ll not get hot. They ll to. And like all others, if the module ll get too high temperatures, there ll be a cut on speeds.

-If anyone wonder about installing.. Its working with Asus Maximus IX Code, there was no problem at all. I dont know any idea about other motherboards. But probably it ll work nicely with all Asus Maximum IX series. They are kind a same motherboards with very little differences.

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JMC1974

I am still a bit concerned...

Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2018

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I ordered this BPX Nvme M.2 drive from MyDigitalSSD as I own another SSD Nvme from the same mfg,(MyDigitalSSD SBX 80mm (2280) M.2 PCIe Gen3 x2 NVMe SSD) and that is a very fast SSD and very RELIABLE!, but not this... this drive randomly disappears from the BIOS on soft boots, need to be powered down and wait 10 sec. I have updated the firmware on the SSD using their software application, my Motherboard is a ASRock AB350M and has the latest BIOS and all other 3 SSD's I own work perfectly (SBX, SAMSUNG and HP) all are PCIe 3rd Gen 2x-4x, but this 4x that has the "Powered by the next-gen Phison E12 PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe controller" is just not reliable.

When it works it is very, very fast, but half of the time on soft reboots is missing/gone/not found.

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Steve

5 stars for sure

Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2017

Verified Purchase

This SSD is fast, like really fast. No issues in my MSI GT72 laptop. Plugged in, and it saw it immediately. Cloned the hard drive over, and voila, it all works as it is supposed to. I am in Windows in less than 6 seconds, from push of the button to sign in. All my programs are much snappier too.
In my desktop I had an older intel 330 ssd, and there just isn't a comparison. The intel ssd made a huge difference, but this one just blows that one away too. I still have 2 more Sata M2 slots to populate, so that will be my next few investments. I want more storage and won't compromise anymore.

Edit: I have had this in for a while, so just wanted to update my review. This ssd is outstanding. It loads programs so fast now that I can actually enjoy playing a game. Anytime that a lot of information needs to be moved, this thing does it quickly, with no issues. I am running crystaldiskmark right now as I type this. It did extremely well with a 2715 mb/sec. This has made my gamin experience very efficient. I will be using this brand for ssd from now on for sure. I plan to populate my remaining m2 slots as soon as possible.

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Alex

Headache

Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2017

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************************** UPDATE ***********************
Ok now I can provide some update on the situation and I actually raise my rating up from 1 to 3 starts but not more.

A few days later I got a message from them advising me to disable that windows feature I mentioned in my original post.
Indeed, once I ticked that setting the speed became quite good.
However on my second question "won't it make me exposed to potential data loss and how other vendors manage to overcome the problem without asking their users to change that setting?" ,
I got an answer basically saying "our device is good and two of your test apps confirmed that - what do you want more?
Just ignore all other test suits and stop bothering us with this" (it was not in written but overall tone was like that)

So despite the speed being quite good, I am still puzzling
- am I exposed to possibility of a sudden data loss due to a system crash or power loss?
- how do other vendors mitigate the issue? Do they silently disable that feature in their drivers (which makes speed great) and just keep users unaware? Or they indeed found a proper way of dealing witр that problem without risking user's data?

************************** ORIGINAL POST ***************
Installation was easy but that's probably all about it.

My main complain - two widely used benchmarks give me really POOR 4k writing speed - as low as 8-12 MB/s !!
Linear writing speed is fine though but all reviews on the internet I read so far had that 4k writing speed >=10x times faster then what I got.
I even booted from my old Samsung 750 Evo SDD so this drive was just a secondary ordinary "data" drive with one single partition on it - and still the same bad result.

Later I thought I found a solution - I turned off "Windows write-cache buffer flushing on the device" and speed was fine but the next day I could not boot up my PC, windows complained about some errors there - it is yet to be investigated.
(UPDATE: It was not related to the SSD - some BIOS settings were wrong. Once I change BIOS - system was able to boot up properly)

Tried contacting manufacturer about the speed issue through their web site - no response so far.

I'll update this review if once have more information but honestly, I have nothing but problems so far with this drive.

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CaseyR

It ran great for about a week - Update: Replacement is In!

Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2017

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Installed in a new build on an Asus Prime Z270-A. SSD was immediately recognized and Windows installed perfectly. It ran great for about a week, but something went south and is dead at the moment. Now the board doesn't recognize the drive at all in BIOS and takes a minute or two to even open the BIOS; which was previously only a few seconds. While it was operating, I was greatly impressed at the speed and performance for the price. We'll see how good this company stands behind this product with their warranty. Hopefully this was just a bum drive.

Update 3/7/2017 - Replacement drive arrived today. I had sent off the dead drive on 2/15/17, making the replacement cycle around a 3 week process. I'm not sure how that compares to others warranty processes, but felt it should be noted since they advertise a 5 year warranty.

Drive installed without issue again. Since I had already bought a Samsung SM961 while waiting on a replacement, I added this drive in as a second M.2 NVME drive.

Since this put me in a unique situation now of having an extra NVME drive, I ran some tests showing the comparison between the two drives. I must says it holds up pretty well against Samsung. I paid about $40 more for the Samsung and got slightly better performance, about 16 gigs more storage, may or may not have a warranty from the seller down the road (advertised 3 years when purchased), and no Samsung Magician connectivity (OEM drive).

In the end, it's your money. I think both drives work well. I do hope this was just a random dud drive. I guess time will tell! Will update if something else comes up.

One other observation - the operating temperature difference between the Samsung and MyDigitalSSD is eye-opening. Samsung hits around 35C with full load and MyDigitalSSD is near or over 70C. Granted they are on different parts of the board but that is quite a difference in the controller thermal temps.

Currently, according to CrystalDiskInfo, Samsung is Idle @ 29C and MyDigitalSSD is @50C.

P.S. Copying over a 4GB video file between these two drives...yeah, that will put a smile on your face!

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