Review on 💾 Intel 660p 512GB SSD: High-performance M.2 NVMe Solid State Drive for Faster Storage by Johnathan Sherman

This SSD isn't much cheaper than much faster SSDs, so I don't see its appeal. Maybe it's a 5 year warranty? Who knows? Anyhow, I tested it in 3 different external SSD enclosures and with 5 different USB-C cables and the displayed speed was the best I could get out of it. However, this may be due to port speed limits. I tested it on a laptop released in 2016 and can't find the exact connector specs. If USB-C 3.1 Ver. 1 (or Gen 1) at 5 Gbps (gigabits, not bytes), then the theoretical limit on the port transfer rate is 625 MB/s (megabytes), and that with the overhead explains why the speeds are where they are are. The laptop has an internal SSD, which I bought at auction, which is slightly faster, but still has a top speed of under 625MB/s, further testament to the port's speed limitations. But look at the second picture, taken during a relatively short speed test. , the high temperature shown refers to the controller (other temperatures refer to the actual flash). Not sure if this SSD will last very long in a laptop. The specified temperatures were reached when the SSD was installed in an Inateck FE2025 case without a cover. Although the flash temperature is within the recommended maximum of 70°C/158°F, the controller temperature is much higher than the controller temperature on the 500GB Samsung 860 EVO SSD that I tested in the same way. The 860's controller temperature peaked at 159°F. Admittedly a slower SSD, so maybe that explains the difference? But for comparison, the same speed test on the laptop's internal 256GB SSD showed a maximum temperature of 113*F with real-time temperature monitoring using HWiNFO64. Yes, this temperature is only for the flash, but it's still lower than the second highest temperature of 116.3*F shown in the figure, which is for the flash closest to the controller. I don't know if I would trust a laptop to do that.