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1.0 out of 5 starsaaaand it's dead. (was I bought a few, and will order one more...)
Reviewed in Canada on February 20, 2023
This is an update to my first review.
Ordered one more, but was too busy to install it. One month or so after arrival, I finally got around to it. Unfortunately, it was DOA. Return process was straightforward, that's good.
And yet, while I was waiting for them to ship it back to me, yet another one of these decided to drop dead. It was running for around 6 months. It started acting weird: it wouldn't come back up after a warm reboot, only with a cold boot (turn machine off, on again). I thought it was some other issue, didn't bother investigating... until the machine wouldn't even get to the BIOS at all. During troubleshoot, removing the SSD would make it work again without issues. After lots of poking around, it did boot again, but quickly threw a bunch of errors and dropped dead again.
As my data is still kind-of-there, I won't return it. That is not as bad as the thought that the 5 other ones I have are... not the most reliable drives, to put it mildly.
Unfortunately, I can not recommend these at this point.
===ORIGINAL REVIEW GOES BELOW===
Wow. I was surprised to see how many I ordered.
If you're comparing it to the Pros that are 2 times the price at least, you may be disappointed. My best NVMe drive is a Samsung 970 Evo plus, so I am not. It's not as fast, but you'd have to be paying too much attention to notice.
For regular usage, light gaming, this will do just fine. So fine, I bought a bunch, and I am not even sorry. I use them as boot drives on a bunch of machines, desktop, servers, and my laptop.
They're reasonably priced, good performance, lots of space, and run cool, unlike the 970 Evo Plus.
If you're looking for good enough, it doesn't get any better than this.