INLAND M.2 2242 2TB SSD NVMe PCIe Gen 3x4 Internal Solid State Drive 3D NAND TLC Read/Write Speed Up to 2,400/2,100 MB/s

I held off buying NVME drives for a long time because SATA SSDs were cheaper and were still hugely faster than older HDDs. But now some NVME SSDs are the same price as SATA SSDs and are faster, so it was time to upgrade. I use my Inland (Microcenter) NVME as my boot drive with a separate partition for gaming and it is flawless. Pros: + PRICE! Why buy a SATA drive when an NVME is faster, costs the same, and has no cables? + Fast! Phison E12 controller has similar performance to Samsung NVMEs that cost more than twice as much as Inland. + Uses 512e sector size for easy cloning with other SSDs/HDDs if you need to. (The Sabrent Rocket uses 4K sector size, which may cause problems with cloning depending on your software. If you clean install, this doesn't matter!) + Runs cool. It's usually around 35C when doing basic computing and jumps to a whole ~40C when loading a game. I maxed out at 66C benching with CrystalDiskMark. When copying game files from one SSD to my Inland, I maxed out at 64C. When copying game files from an HDD, it was under 60C. Unless you're working with HUGE files or copying lots of files back and forth constantly, it's not going to overheat on you. I'm using a Ryzen 1500X with a tower cooler, and my NVME slot is located between the CPU and GPU. I have a Meshify C case with 2 140mm intake fans and 2 120mm exhaust fans, so it has plenty of airflow. + If you do install an aftermarket heatsink, the drive is mostly bare. You won't have to worry about voiding a warranty by removing stickers. More manufacturers should do this! Cons - Most other Phison E12 controller NVME drives have 5 year warranties. Inland's is only 3 years. - Doesn't come with any software for upgrading firmware or monitoring drive health and such. Not a big deal. I use HWiNFO64 for monitoring drive health anyway.

To begin with, this thing is overkill. I have tried everything from Samsung 970 through Samsung 990 pro in my current rig. (Ryzen 7950x3d and Nvidia 4090 both water cooled). And the perceived user differences are negligible at best for daily tasks and gaming. With that said, larger file transfers and drive imaging are blazingly fast. Transfers and copies that used to take minutes now seconds, hours now minutes. Here’s some results from day one I received. (Bottom result with stock cooling fan/heat sink. Later results are with newest bios revision for motherboard and an aftermarket heat sink/fan. Because despite being in the pcie 5 slot, and being set in bios as that. It wasn’t reading or writing anywhere near where it should. This thing is legit. And absolutely will blow gen 4 NVME out of the water. The caveat being, you really. Really don’t need this for 90% of tasks/games

***Update: Failed at 1 year 10 month mark. 21 May 2021. I think it failed due to heat even though I have had it under the motherboard heat spreader in the onboard m.2 slot with lots of fans. If not heat then it just failed on it's own explicably. Not sure. Right now it will BSOD the OS if I copy anything to/from it at high speed. Can't run any disk speed utilities as it will also fail and disappear from visibility in the os. Even under a different OS boot drive to confirm. Definitely a failed drive. Not happy to see this fail so soon. I can only copy files off of it one at a time because if I get more than 3GB of files queued up the drive will lock up and disappear from the OS and require a reboot to see it again. There is a 3-year warranty. I'll try reaching out to Inland and see how well the support their customers and products. I'll post an update with the outcome. I just bought and installed this in my Asrock x570 Pro4 motherboard with a Ryzen 3900x CPU running a Ryzentosh Hackintosh with the latest MacOS Mojave 10.14.5 using the Vanilla AMD guide. Incredible. Works flawlessly for a Hackintosh. I also own the Adata XPG 8200 pro which is also very good, but I paid around $200 for it when it first came out. *Havent tried the adata on a Hackintosh yet though. This one is half that at only $105 and has the latest controller and Toshiba chips on it. Talk about the deal of the year. This is it. Works flawlessly and fast as heck. This is the one to beat right now over all other drives for both performance and price.

Looking to upgrade from Samsung 950Pro 256gb to larger NVMe. Found this Inland Premium 1tb for such a good price, went ahead and pulled the trigger. Was skeptical due to the few reviews, however, they were all positive. The worst case would send back. Pros 1. Price/size: Very affordable NVMe 1TB for about a Benjemin 2. Performance: The performance is up there near the Samsung range at half the cost or better. CrystalDiskMark snapshot added. This is after installing 55gbs on 1tb drive. Unknowns 1. Longevity: This remains to be seen. Will definitely report back should I have any early failures Issues Had an issue booting after clone. I believe this might have been due to the Samsung 950Pro running on Samsung proprietary driver which would be incompatible with the Inland Premium as it would use standard Win10 box driver. Tried Recovery of the clone without resolution. Ended up installing from scratch. Not a huge issue with the exception of time involved. However, I believe the Samsung 950Pro NVMe was cloned from a Standard SSD, which was upgraded from WinXP to Win10. Clean install was probably the right way to go in the end. Update 12/15/2021 - So this SSD is still working flawlessly on my rig. Granted I am not doing Raid or anything of that sort, so mileage may vary. But I have had ZERO issues and no drop in performance. I have just purchased another 1Tb of this make and model for a laptop. Feeling pretty good about it as long as the manufacturers have not changed the build on it to a lesser design. Often some manufactures do this without advertising or communicating it. But, I will certainly let you all know should I run into any issues.

First time receiving this item, it had no way to format in bios, on several systems...., as if it wasn't there, returned then got a replacement that one worked fine