Brand new and unused 1TB SSD purchased at Christmas for my son, however I didn't realise his motherboard has no support for an NVMe drive !

I purchased three of these drives originally, two of which are performing well so far - one in my own desktop PC as the primary OS drive and another as a secondary drive for storage in our Asus laptop

I performance tested my drive with Crystal Disk Mark and was able to record (and sometimes surpass) the advertised speeds below. Interestingly my initial tests reported slower performance until I made a BIOS update to my motherboard which according to the manufacturer "Improve M.2 SSD compatibility"


Specs


Form Factor

M.2 2280

Capacity

1TB

Memory Components

3D NAND

Interface

PCI-Express 3.0 x4



Performance

Max Sequential Read

Up to 3400 MBps

Max Sequential Write

Up to 3100 MBps

4KB Random Read

Up to 330,000 IOPS

4KB Random Write

Up to 250,000 IOPS



Terabytes Written (TBW)

1000TB

MTBF

1,000,000 hours

HeatSink

Yes