Silicon Power 1TB w/DRAM Cache NVMe M.2 PCIe Gen3x4 2280 R/W up to 3,400/3,000MB/s SSD (SU001TBP34A80M28AB)

I download about 6 Tb of data each month and that data is stored on two 32 Tb external drive enclosures with four much slower 8 Tb traditional 3.5-inch mechanical drives. The speed at which the data comes in is much too fast for the enclosures to write the data in real time creating a huge bottleneck. So instead of writing directly to the enclosures, I used my solid state NVME drive to a large cache the incoming data as it comes in. Then the data from that cache will trickle the content to my enclosures. But there was still bottlenecking and some latency when I was just using one of these Silicon Power NVME drives. So, I purchased another one and a PCI-E to NVME m.2 adapter. I created the RAID 0 in my BIOS so that the two drives would double my storage space, but also increase the read/write speed. After installing my OS and updating all the drivers and software, I ran a benchmark on the RAID 0 and was extremely pleased to see how much faster two of these Silicon Power NVME drives performed together please see the screen capture that I uploaded. For my purposed, this setup work great. I have the RAID split into two partitions. The smaller one has my OS and apps installed on it. The much larger second partition is set aside for some backup storage, but it also serves as the first place my downloads are stored prior to being sent to my external drives for permanent storage. With the price of 2 Tb PCi-e Gen 4 drives hovering around $400 and the price of one of these 1 Tb drives at $99 at the time of this writing, using two of these drives was much less expensive even when the PCI-e to m.2 NVME adapter which cost about $20 was included in order to create the array. So, for almost half the price of a gen 4 2 Tb drive, I was able to get the same high performance at about half the price. For my needs, Silicon Power came through for me and I couldn't be happier because the bottle neck is gone!

First nvme and my god have the prices come into reality. This kind of nvme was easily $500 about 2 years ago. Absolutely blazing fast, phenomenal price for the performance. Get one, in fact get two. Don't buy a heatsink, the 'label' is actually a very well designed heat spreader. The memory likes to run hot while writing like 50-70C, while the controller likes to be cold. The controller heats up, which then spreads to the memory through the heatspreading label and helps to bring the memory temps up. Because lets be honest this thing won't be writing for more than a few seconds at a time. If you cool your memory and lets say it never gets above 40C while writing, you'll be damaging your drives longevity writing below optimal temperatures. Don't bother even buying a heatsink with the thermal tape and cutting in so it only touches the controller because then the heat from the controller still won't be spreading to help bring the memory temps up from ambient to where they like to be. That little metal label is actually pure genius, very simple and keeps your drive healthy. The only time it would probably be worth to cool your nvme controller more aggressively is if you're writing 24/7 with it at which point the memory will heat up enough on its own and stay there over long periods and you can really crank down on the controller to keep it from throttling.

1TB Drive purchased Sept. 2020Took a gamble on this drive in lieu of some of the negative reviews and couldn't be happier. I can't speak about the legitimacy of the component swaps mentioned in other reviews, but I can say that this drive is meeting and even exceeding the advertised performance. This drive's performance is comparable to that of the Samsung 970 Evo and Sabrent Rocket, and typically goes for a much lower price.This drive doesn't get the recognition it deserves, probably because Silicon Power has a reputation for making cheap and low performance SSD's, but this one is an exception.Pros:As fast as the best Gen 3.0 NVMe drives out there.TLC NAND - Faster and more durable than the QLC used in other budget NVMe's.DRAM Cache - Greatly improved performance and durability compared to cheap DRAMless SSD's.Cons:Possible quality control issues or inconsistent components used in some drives causing much lower performance. Problem not present on my item.

This is a good 1TB NVMe SSD. It has, of course, 1TB space and reads really fast, however, the write speeds vary from very fast to rather slow, depending on the test/bench marks. It is cheaper than the Samsung 970 EVO or WD Black NVMe SSD, but,..both of those perform better consistently at their rated read/write speeds. So, for about $20.00 more, I'd go with the Samsung or WD Black for overall, consistent performance. Sorry Silicon Power.I got 2 of these on sale, (a really great deal) for my son's new laptop that came with a POS 128 GB, slug NVMe SSD, which btw, had 60 GB reserved for OS and bloatware. (REALLY..1/2 of the space was reserved and the partition was inaccessible for sizing. Sorry..off topic)So it was a great deal and they do function very well, just not consistently at the optimum rated write speed. I haven't noticed any real lag or slowdowns due to this though, not yet, so I can't register a legitimate "complaint" about them. Overall, I'm happy with the purchase and function/performance thus far.