Review on 💾 Silicon Power 512GB NVMe M.2 PCIe Gen3x4 2280 TLC SSD - High-Speed 3,400/2,300MB/s R/W, 800TBW by Jimmy Scaturro

So I bought this NVMe SSD in October with the initial plan to upgrade my Acer Nitro 5's standard Intel NVMe SSD. Well, back then work was pretty hectic and there wasn't time for a clean install. I prefer to reinstall whenever possible just to get the most out of such an upgrade. Now that I've returned home from the mission and things have cooled, I've finally decided to dig deeper. Saved backup copies of bookmarks, passwords and files. Ready to ignite. I had no idea this thing was going to be that fast and really just wanted to increase the space from 256 to 512. The pictures speak for themselves. From 1500 to 3200 MB/s reading and from 450 to 2200 MB/s writing! That's twice the read speed and four times the write speed for $59! Wow! SSD and RAM prices are expected to increase this year, so upgrade while you can! Boot and shutdown times are noticeably improved. Take a look at random 4K speeds. Effectively 4 times faster than before. Programs that used to open quickly now open even faster. To be honest I'm very impressed with this update. The heat is something to watch out for as the acceleration in pace is noticeable. With my Acer, I can clearly feel that the bottom of the device heats up more than the old device. Don't worry about reliability as NVMe drives are more tolerant of overheating, which is nothing to worry about. The temperature only rises under heavy or long load, but quickly drops to around 29 degrees in idle or under low load. Again, this is not a defect, but a by-product of NVMe drives. I have WD, Crucial, PNY NVMe in various other systems and they all get very hot. So once again, don't worry. In general. I'm happy with this update and looking forward to getting this thing up and running.