Review on Timetec 256GB SSD NVMe PCIe Gen3x4 - High Performance SLC Cache, 3D NAND TLC, Read/Write Speed Up to 2,100/1,600 MB/s - For PC, Laptop, Desktop by Robert Aiono

Originally I was just going to buy one of these since my motherboard (Asus TUF Sabertooth X99) only has one NVME slot, but before I even finished checkout I looked up the prices for them 2TB SSD, and they average around $180-$200, and that's for SATA 3 2.5-inch models, NVME is almost double the price (of course, at the time of writing, they've been increasing from time to time Time for good lightning deals). So I went to my shopping cart and added a second and 110mm M.2 PCIE to 16X adapter (i.e. $6, which Revain recommends halfway down the list) for a total of $146.99 Dollars before state taxes (but also free shipping, 4 days from SoCal). to South Shore MA)! After installation, I formatted it as Raid 0 via Disk Management in Windows 10 (perhaps the best method for NVME drives according to a Puget Systems Research article) and almost doubled the read and write speeds compared to a single drive! (Read speed is close to average PCIE 4.0 hard drive) While it may not be important to have high read speeds right now, gaming will likely change that. Multi-platform games are coming out that are ports of the new Xbox and PS. Consoles as they now have high performance SSDs instead of hard spinning rusty drives. Note. Although these speeds are very high, I recommend that if you're doing what I'm doing, you make sure you back up anything important, like pictures or movies or any other files, to the cloud or another drive, as if a Drive would have Failed Out of Service, ALL WILL BE LOST due to the way Raid-0 divides the data bytes on each disk. I will mainly use it as gaming storage or scratch drive for photo and video editing that I want to put somewhere.