ORICO NVMe SSD 1TB M.2 with Heatsink, Up to 3100MB/s PCIe Gen3x4 2280 Internal Solid State Drive, SLC Cache 3D NAND, Compatible with Laptop and PC Desktops -J10

These work great and come with a heat spreader as well. Upgrading an old system so I didn't need anything cutting edge fast but these are great for what they are. Getting around 3200Mbps read speeds. They look pretty good too not that that matters too much. Was detected by system straight away and have been performing perfectly. Got 2 at a great price so no complaints at all. Super easy to install. Formatted without issue. The capacity was exactly as expected.

Couldn’t recommend this SSD Moore. I have it in two laptops and an external dock, temps are great and haven’t run into an issue with any of my systems. All around affordable and reliable.

High speed large amount of storage and it's cheap.However I will say the included thermal pad isn't big enough to reach the heat sink.

First day ownership. 1st installed w/o the heatsink and ran a Crystaldiskmark 512mb (2 cycle) test. Temp in crystaldiskinfo immediately shot up to 66C. Per the box, 70C is the top of the operating temperature range. It may have gotten higher during the test (I didn't realize CDinfo had a refresh timer on the temp). I then shut down and installed the included heatsink. This was pretty easy if you have steady hands to place the thermal pads and then pinch the assembly together with the SSD in the middle. Positioning is important (don't have the heatsink too far one way or it will block the screw on one side or M.2 pins on the other), luckily you can re-position things and it doesn't damage the thermal pads. Then, I re-ran Crystaldiskmark and temps went to 46C initially and I refreshed CDinfo often and saw a peak temp of only 49C during the whole test. Much better! Performance was slightly up, too. Went from 2900 read to 3100 with heatsink. Write performance was 1900.So far, I'm pleased. Will be a secondary game drive.One head scratcher... It started with zero GB written. I ran the 2 Crystaldiskmark 512mb tests (2 cycle selected) before and after installing the heatsink and total writes is already (somehow) at 154GB which seems inflated. This is not my OS drive.. I had done nothing else with the drive but those two tests. I'll continue to monitor this as I read and write to the drive. Maybe this is normal for Crystaldiskmark testing?

Added to a usb enclosure. Downloaded xbox one games to it to play from. Works great.

For secondary storage this drive is fine, no dram and for light tasks as a media scratch disk its kept up. Not the fastest as it has no dram, especially in an usb enclosure where hmb doesn't exist.I would recommend Oricos own M2PV-C3 enclosure as it has a large heatsink as this drive does get quite warm at times, just make sure to update the firmware. The clear plastic kinds with smaller heatsink surface area for looks such as the TCM2-C3 will not suffice. The TCM2-C3 ran at 57C, the M2PV-C3 ran at 51C, more acceptable, but still the hottest of all my drives where the norm is closer to 25-40C. Even my internal 980 pro only runs at 40C. Its not a bad thermister reading as it feels unusually warm to the touch when in the TCM2-C3, its more reasonably warm in the M2PV-C3, I think insufficient cooling is the major cause of any premature failures, but so far so good as its survived being written to several times over already as a download drive.

Dejo de funcionar a los 5 meses. Esta instalado como disco de almacenamiento interno en una laptop asus rog y perdí la tesis, suena a chiste pero es anécdota.

Using this with the Orico NVMe enclosure. Since the enclosure was only usb 3.1. The speeds were about 900mb per second. Using this on a Mac Mini for storage. Initially I was copying about 100 GB in files. It gets pretty hot when doing so much and seemed to throttle down a bunch from the heat. After the first big transfer it’s been a champ. I do keep it raised up from a surface so it has plenty of air circulation around it.