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Faster than the Samsung 950 PRO NVMe at time of purchase!

Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2023

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!💪

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Al Reeder

Labeled 1TB but was 480GB

Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2020

The label on the item that arrived was 1TB but item in packing was 480MB. Returned for money. Did not see how ''replace same item'' option would help. I would like the 1TB item at same price.

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cat1092

Faster than the Samsung 950 PRO NVMe at time of purchase!

Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2023

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Been running excellent for over a year now....

Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2020

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I did my research and landed on this particular drive for the specs and warranty.

Did some testing and the speeds were alright to keep them in use. I actually ended up buying 2 of them because they were priced right and the temptation for RAID implementation was there as an option.

With both drives internal on my laptop I can swap files around between them at 1.5GB/s which is fast enough considering what speeds used to be with drives. Synthetic tests you see everywhere on drive listings don't really mean much if you can't actually replicate in real world use.

There's always going to be some bottleneck that prevents you from getting 3GB/s out of these things no matter what brand it is or what system you're putting it into.

You would think 2 drives side by side mm's apart on the same bus would be able to break the copy barrier but, it doesn't really work that way when it comes down to it. They do perform well internally and externally though as I also tested a few enclosures/cables with them at first as well. External to Internal and vice versa yielded some results at first that didn't seem quite right when looking at all of the CD test results.

On a sustained WRITE of big data for at least 30 seconds to flush the buffers of anything useful the drives hit around 600-650MB/s compared to internal <> internal up to 1.5GB/s with extended copies dipping to about ~900's MB/s which isn't bad if you're filling it up with ~800GB's of files to test the thing.

The external tests I did with 4-5 different enclosures / cables and the biggest hurdle is HEAT in the passive cooled enclosures. I tried U-Green / SSK enclosures with 3-4 different cables. I also tested them out with USB3 <> C adapters to see what the decline in speeds would be as well.... I learned a bit about those being somewhat odd when you think ok it's a C adapter and it shouldn't matter which side faces up.... well, some of the cheap adapters don't mention it anywhere and depending on how the cable is inserted means the difference between USB2 and USB3 or 275MB/s vs 2-3X that with a good adapter. (B07YCZ2S82 RIITOP)

>>>Make sure you get a decent cable as some dropped speeds down to as low as 175MB/s, also a TB3 won't improve things if your port doesn't do thunderbolt even though the manufacturer says it does. A good cable should only run about $15/2 of them (B07X4GQ1SS Nektech)<<<

>>>Just ordered a new enclosure to test with the RTL9210 (B07N48N5GR Plugable) chip in it since the configuration is now different to use less power / less heat it might improve things a bit when using it as a portable. It looks promising from the info that's out there vs JMS583/ASM controllers used in previous enclosures. Maybe the new chip will break that 600-650MB/s mark.<<<

I'm sure I could squeak out a bit more speed and lower temps with some pads but, these drives scream without them and the fans kick in on the laptop to keep them cool enough.

BTW the laptop is running an I7-9750H Hex Core w/ 16GB of ram and windows 10 pro x64.

I suppose I could have tested them with Linux as well on a live CD but didn't bother.... Linux does tend to handle file copies a bit better than MSFT... if you have a NAS you know it runs on linux for a reason ;)

TLDR; BUY IT NOW!! (1TB/2TB will give you the best speeds / TBW's compared to other drives in the same class with the Phison E12 controller FW 12.3)

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Franklin Lora

Awesome value for the money

Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2019

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I will start this review by writing that this is the best value NVMe SSD on the market. Only the Intel 660p and Crucial P1 are cheaper but those drives are not even close to the performance of this NVMe SSD. This NVMe SSD is cheaper than most SATA SSDs and yet is worlds ahead in performance and value. This drive is powered by the amazing PHISON E12 NVMe controller and Toshiba BiCS Flash 64 Layer 3-bit per cell memory. This combination allows this NVMe SSD to challenge and sometimes beat the performance of drives costing almost twice as much. I don't even know how people are buying NVMe SSDs like Samsung 970 EVO Plus or WD Black SN750 when this is so much cheaper and yet basically has the same or better performance. Those NVMe SSDs have nothing to justify paying over 100 dollars for the same capacity over this. What makes this NVMe SSD special is the fact that even when you are really pushing the drive to the limits the latency stays really really low. Like PRO grade low. Only the Samsung 970 Pro has better latency SOMETIMES but sometimes this is even better. Now when you look at the price of the Samsung 970 Pro, that drive is 345 Dollars right now and this is 149...then WOW if you are not impressed by that then I don't know. This also has amazing endurance numbers, much higher than all the other drives. In conclusion, if you are looking for NVMe class performance at the same or cheaper price than SATA SSDs then I think this is the best on the market.

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Elvis Impersonator

NVMe FTW!

Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2019

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OK, so after the latest round of PC Master Race upgrade-a-thon involving a new CPU/Memory/Motherboard (Intel I7-7700, Corsair Vengeance LPX 32Gb, 32 Asus Prime Z370-A), a new case (Corsair Carbide SPEC-02) and a spiffy new Graphics Card (Geforce GTX 1660ti)... I figured it was time to swap out the old Seagate 1Tb 5500rpm hard drive as well (hey, it's a process, don't judge...).

Installing this M.2 drive is dead-easy -- for the motherboard, it involved removing a heat-sink to expose the socket, but after that, literally plug-and-play. I used MiniTool Partition Wizard to migrate the OS from the old drive to the new, then swapped over boot order and restarted.

And had to fasten my seatbelt, because start-up time is now measured in a handful of seconds instead of several minutes.

If I hit the power switch on the PC and THEN turn on the monitor, the desktop is up before the monitor turns on. This thing is FAST now. Gaming is super-quick with no more sluggishness while the hard-drive slooooowly spins up. Great performance all around, and the price point was superb.

TL;DR: If you're thinking of replacing your regular spindle(s) with an SSD -- do it. If you're thinking of using an NVMe based drive to make the swap... trust me, it's worth the insane boost to the cost:performance ratio you'll experience. And 1TB? In an SSD? What's not to like?

TL;DR: Totally worth the price, totally provides insanely quick performance -- definitely worth the money.

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Don Baker

Good Value

Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2019

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I was upgrading the current ssd with the installed Win-10 operating system. I purchased SSK Aluminum M.2 NVME SSD Enclosure Adapter, USB 3.1 Gen 2 and used Macrium Reflect Software for cloning the original ssd. All plug and play after that.
After doing my research online the product seem to be the best value for performance and durability. Have a 100+ hours running system with no problems.
Did not need to use their tech support hence no rating.

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Dingo 883

Initial impressions are good

Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2020

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I replaced my 250GB Samsung SATA SSD (finally!) I had a few m.2 nvme drives in my wishlist I was keeping an eye on. I stumbled across this one the day I bought it. I got 960GB model. I did some research and found that it's TBW (terrabites written, meaning how much data it should be able to write before failure) was very good. Nearly the best I could find. The 5 year warranty also puts it on the leader boards. Speed matched the best I had on my wish list and at a lower price. It seemed a no-brainer. An article I read recently forecast up to a 40% increase in ssd prices this year, so I stopped putting it off and grabbed this up. The speed on my SATA SSDs are around 6 times slower than this beast! Not sure if I recognize real world speed increase. Didn't clock my boot times, but it's almost 4 times a big and 6 times faster, so I'm happy. As long as it lasts at least 5 years, I don't expect any complaints.

Installation was a breeze. I cloned my boot drive with AOMEI back up (free), removed the sata ssd, and it fired right up. Couldn't have been easier. The only thing was my motherboard uses a tiny standoff and the drive doesn't come with the needed screw/standoff. It was a bit of an issue until I found the screws and standoff I needed with the accessories that came with my mobo.

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Grumpy old Farmer

Works

Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2019

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Matched previous for backup.

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Kehart25

Economical speed demon!

Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2018

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I've had 2 of these drives for about a month, I really like them. I installed both in my EVGA 370FTW and they were recognized right away. Installed Windows, ran Crystalmark and the speeds are just as advertised. I haven't had any issues and Windows is so much faster, coming from 2 870 Pro SSD's in a raid 0 configuration I think that's saying something. I really like that they include a screwdriver and screw, it's a nice added bonus. I can't really speak about the longevity of them since I haven't had them long, but so far no problems. If you have the slots (and the money), you should definitely consider buying these.

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Edward W. Yowell

Stellar performance on par with the best

Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2018

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I have a couple Samsung M.2 drives. They are not a current generation but this BPX Pro performs better in synthetic and real-world benchmarks which is quite impressive and on par with current gen Samsung drives. When you consider it's half the price and has a five-year warranty it's a no-brainer.

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David Wilson

Excellant

Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2019

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I love the bang for the buck, use of reliable components. Yes this isn't a mainstream manufacturer like Samsung, but half the price, nearly as faster and faster in some things. This just makes more sense.

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