Silicon Power 256GB NVMe M.2 PCIe Gen3x4 2280 SSD (SP256GBP34A60M28)

The Silicon Power 1TB NVMe M.2 PCIe Gen3x4 SSD is an excellent choice for those looking for a budget-friendly yet fast storage solution. Whether you're gaming, editing, or just need a reliable upgrade, this SSD delivers great performance for the price.Key Specs & Performance:✅ Read Speed: Up to 2,200 MB/s✅ Write Speed: Up to 1,600 MB/s✅ PCIe Gen3x4 Interface – Delivers 4x the speed of a SATA SSD✅ 2280 Form Factor – Compatible with most modern motherboards & laptops✅ TBW (Total Bytes Written): ~600TB – Solid endurance for daily workloadsBest For:🔹 Gaming PCs – Faster load times for games compared to SATA SSDs🔹 General Computing – Snappier boot times and application launches🔹 Budget Builds – Good performance without breaking the bank🔹 Laptops & Compact PCs – Low power consumption and efficient coolingWhile it's not the fastest NVMe out there (compared to Gen4 SSDs), for most users, the speed boost from SATA to this NVMe drive is noticeable. If you're upgrading from a hard drive or older SSD, you'll see a huge difference in system responsiveness.💡 Bottom Line:For the price, this NVMe SSD is an awesome choice for gaming, everyday use, and even light content creation. Reliable, fast, and affordable! 🚀

I’ve been using this for about 6 months now, works perfectly.. Way faster than even a standard sata SSD.. PC boots in about 10 seconds or less.. Games download and verify files way faster.. Very good investment for a budget to mid range gaming PC.

Very fast SSD. Instal and format and works. No noise. Some heat with extensive use. Perfect fit.

I was really suoprised that this was so easy to install and use. I didnt need any software because it was plug and play. Ive not had one problem with it and have had it almost a month, so preformance was great for me. I would definately recomend this NVMe SSD to anyone thats looking for a good product and not have to pay a high price for the normal name brand SSD.

Lasted only a few months after 5 years. I guess thats what was advertised and warrantied. I shouldnt be surprised, but the sting of losing everything feels terrible.

For a M.2 NVMe drive, I like that the packaging is very small & lightweight.It's also a plus that relevant technical info is displayed on the package rather than drawings of racing cars and rockets for example.This shows that the product is also made with power-users in mind thus a simple, clear package print.For the SMART capability it's somehow not seen by all Windows programs, some can get it and some can't.Perhaps the drive must be physically plugged into the real motherboard to get it everywhere (I plugged it into a USB adapter).For the details it's a 512-bytes physical sector size, so it's best to also make sure that your partitions match it (512-bytes chunk/cluster-size), and I don't think that 512-bytes is at all a problem for any M.2 drive anyway.The packaging also says Supports NVMe 1.3, but the drive appears to support the newer NVMe 1.4 as well.So it supports both NVMe 1.3 & NVMe 1.4 (it's still Gen3x4, but NVMe 1.4 itself cans still be used).The drive supports SMART, TRIM & VolatileWriteCache.Another thing worth knowing about is that for another drive model the shipments were sometimes shipped without temperature sensor so a static value was returned always.There were two versions and either of the two were selected at random for shipping.I don't know if it's the case for this NVMe model, but it would be much better to just always ship the temperature sensor-enabled versions always.Otherwise it's hard to know when the drive needs to take a break due to heat (which cans happen while doing I/O-heavy stuff, like mass-copying or intensive random reads for gaming).For the price it's a rare find, this product is priced neutrally, neither too low nor too high.Perfect price-match for getting hold of a 1TB NVMe drive nowadays.More (basic) drive info:Disk geometry:Cylinders: 124519Tracks/Cylinder: 255Sectors/Track: 63Bytes/Sector: 512Total disk sectors: 0Logical sector size: 512Physical sector size: 512Media rotation rate: N/ABuffer size: N/AECC size: N/AThe rest wasn't able to be reliably acquired over my USB adapter.However it's worth noting that 'Trusted Computing' is unsupported - good news, it was rather 'anti-user computing' anyway.Therefore this NVMe drive won't agree to work against you for 'trusted' purposes.This product is one the cheaper 1TB NVMe drives, and yet it matches a pretty good quality alike any higher-priced one.

This thing has withstanded every OS and software I've thrown at it without consent. It's a fast stick of big storage. Doesn't fill up too fast, runs everything quickly and smoothly, no problems with it. Not too much to be said because it's doing its job like advertised and that is all I asked. Worth the money

Installed two Silicon Power 1TB - NVMe M.2 PCIe Gen3x4 2280 SSD sticks in a Synology 923+ as a read-write cache. The Synology recognized the sticks immediately and I configured them as a read-write cache without difficulty. The Synology warned that these are not supported devices, but I clicked through the warning dialog.The Synology seems happy again, and by that I mean DSM has not issued a warning and there is no performance degradation. These 1 TB sticks replaced a pair of 256 GB sticks I repurposed from discarded workstations, but one failed after approximately 18 months of use, which rendered the pair as non-operational.I purchased these 1 TB sticks not for their speed specs, but because these offered the highest TBW (600) for the price at the time of purchase.Every Synology use case is different, and your mileage will vary, but for me, adding cache increased the overall responsiveness of my 923+ more than adding RAM.I will update this review if one or both the the 1 TB sticks fails.