TEAMGROUP MP44Q 1TB SLC Cache Gen 4x4 M.2 2280 PCIe 4.0 w/NVMe Laptop & Desktop & NUC & NAS SSD Read/Write Speed up to 7400/6200MB/s TM8FFD001T0C101

This has been my go to ssd drive lately.Its reliable and fast.I use these mostly in external ssd enclosures.I do have one in my PC running windows as my boot drive.Sleek design with no fuss. Literally plug and play (ok minus formatting, but you shouldnt buy this if you dont know about formatting, unless youre buying pc parts for someone else to put together)Have not had any compatibility issues.Speed has remained consistent and stable. I can move data from this ssd to my pc fast, and move data from my pc to this ssd fast.As i said these are my current go to. Price to quality its golden. I really enjoy team group items to begin with. Wuality is top notch and ive noticed their defective items to non defective items is smaller then most other companies ive seen. (Read - their quality control is top notch)

Great price to performance ratio. High speed, no reliability problems after 4 months. Not the highest performance drive on the market, but when using an SSD I kind of wonder if you really can notice any meaningful difference. I went from a Samsung Pro 1TB model to this one, and the only thing I really notice is the huge capacity increase.

Bang for buck king of 4TB m.2 SSD's in late 2023 when I got it. Went for around $165. The price has creeped up since then but its still a solid bargain here in early 2024.Uses the Realtek RTS5762 controller (low cost but decent performance) with Hynix TLC flash (decent price, performance, and durability for a consumer drive at .5 DWPD) and has 128MB of DRAM to act as a buffer. Some of the TLC flash is ran in a pseudo "SLC cache" mode to improve performance which is how this thing performs so well despite using lower cost components.That performance will drop pretty hard if you get the drive near full because of that. So don't try to fill up more than 75% of the way if you want high performance. At 4TB though that still leaves plenty of space so IMO its not a big deal.It will still certainly beat the heck out of a lot of the QLC trash drives that are usually what sell for this price in this capacity range even when near full though.The supported PCIe gen is "only" 3.0 but that is still --perfectly-- fine, really quite good IMO, for almost anything you would need out of a consumer SSD in 2023/2024 and probably 2025 or 2026 at least as well.The generation of PCIe only effects max data transfer rates (that is linear reads/writes) which hardly matters at all for most desktop use cases once you get to PCIe 3.0 speeds. ===Its low queue depth random read/write performance that matters for desktops.=== Yes even in gaming. And this SSD does pretty well there thanks to its caching scheme despite the cheaper controller.To get significantly better performance than this drive you would have to step up to buying a Optane SSD (getting harder to find in late 2023 and still fairly expensive if you want more than 2TB, probably will need u.2 adapter as well.......) or a MUUUCH higher cost enterprise class SSD like a Kioxia CD8P or CM7, or the Solidigm P5810, or a Memblaze PBlaze7 7940 drives. Which are also not m.2 and did I mention how terribly expensive they are??Note that this MIIIIIGHT change if Microsoft's Direct Storage ever really takes off among software developers. Right now that easily seems years away at best though. I think only 1-2 games support it as of early 2024. At least 1 of which sucks fairly badly (Forspoken) and the other has some serious bugs that making playing irritating. And this drive will still benefit a whole lot from software that properly uses Direct Storage anyways so you don't have to worry about it for a long long time.

For what the 512 GB, 1/2 TB, 3.0x4 is designed, to be inexpensive and to work right for a regular multipurpose PC, these "little sticks of gum" are doing their job. I put these into 2 of my PCs that I am giving away, both of which are otherwise very powerful. Purpose being to remove all my data. In each, they seamlessly functioned as clean. And easy installation of windows. Something about a 4 TB 5.0x4 makes installation difficult, and those are for hot setups. So later on when the ladies I gifted these PCs to want to increase or "raid" them, they can do so easily, and won't need to install windows into their bigger faster SSDs.I know, the 3.0x4 go fast for awhile, then slow down a little, then fast again. That's not an instability. It's what 3.0s do. So, these do well and as expected. They were inexpensive, take windows easily. I like.

Used this in my new PC, it's running my OS. I use my PC for heavy gaming and other miscellaneous computer things. The quality is great I've been using it for over a year! It fit perfectly in my build, it was easy to install and the performance is just great! I have no issues with it and my PC runs and boots up super fast! I would order this again for any future builds and even recommend it to friends!