Review on 💽 Silicon Power 1TB NVMe 4.0 Gen4 PCIe M.2 SSD for PS5 with Blazing Fast Read/Write Speeds up to 5,000/4,400 MB/s (SP01KGBP44US7005) by Marquel Henry

Like many other customers, I read dozens of NVMe/Storage reviews before upgrading my 6 year old Samsung SSD. This model, the P34A80 1TB, has consistently found itself at the top of the list as the best value drive. After installing the hard drive and doing a clean install of Win10, including multiple reboots to install all available drivers and updates, performance was good. disappointing. At best, it was instantly slower than my previous SSD. At worst, applications take MINUTES to start (or fail to start) and Windows behaves strangely. According to CrystalDiskInfo, IOPS and throughput were terrible - about a fifth of what I've seen in tests from review sites. This happens occasionally and is usually a sign that the drive needs to be TRIMmed. No problem; I started TRIM, rebooted and noticed an improvement immediately. However, applications were still sluggish and Windows still behaved poorly (e.g. desktop icons appeared an extra 10 seconds after login; I didn't even have this problem on my old laptop with its regular magnetic drive). I ran Crystal again and got the results you see here. While those numbers aren't terrible, and some of them are higher than published benchmarks, overall system performance is poor and I'm still seeing a bunch of weird issues with Windows: icons don't show up until 20 seconds after logging in, apps that used to start instantly now takes 15+ seconds, long load times, and random app crashes. I did another clean install of Win10 (no reset), ran all available Windows updates, and installed my daily driver software: Firefox, Steam, and pCloud. Performance was ok during the day but now it's trash again. . Despite acceptable benchmark performance, my system is SIGNIFICANTLY slower than my 6 year old SATA SSD. I don't mean that accessing a large database takes a few milliseconds longer; I mean, it seems to me that I went back to the old magnetic drive. After reading several reports on Silicon Power downgrading the chipset between models sent to reviewers and models sent to consumers, I suspect I've found the root of my problem. I will return it and choose another brand.