🖥️ Mushkin Alpha 8TB PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe 1.3 M.2 Internal SSD - 3D QLC – MKNSSDAL8TB-D8 Review

Everything worked like clockwork. Actual storage is about 3.6TB, but I just installed 1.6TB of games on it and downloaded them all like a champ. Highly recommended.

Serious crap, this M.2 never worked, it appeared and disappeared from my system, then crashed TWICE from my computer (blue screen). It comes in a very cheap package, as if we were buying a $2 USB dongle. The product is of very poor quality.

Runs like clockwork. Actual storage is about 3.6TB, but I just installed 1.6TB of games on it and downloaded them all like a champ. Highly recommended.

Serious crap that M.2 never worked, showed up and disappeared from my system and then crashed my computer TWICE (blue screen). It comes in a very cheap package, as if we were buying a $2 USB dongle. The product is of very poor quality.

Edit: Change to 2 stars. Comparing side-by-side with the Sabrent, the heat is worse than the Sabrent, causing hard drive operation to drop a notch. The temperature rises above 70°C while the Sabrent stays below 70°C. Also, there were issues using this drive as the boot drive, but I'm not sure if it's a drive issue or a configuration issue. Otherwise it works fine and works as expected. Original: I can't believe something $1300 came in a package with no shrink wrap. This is the cheapest product…

Pros: + Reasonable price (cheapest of all 8TB SSD options) + Outstanding performance. Combined with an Avolusion SSDTB900-PRO Thunderbolt 3 SSD External Enclosure and connected to a 16" Macbook Pro (Mid 2019) it achieves read speeds of 2450 MB/s and write speeds of 2000 MB/s. I also have an 8 TB Sabrent Rocket Q SSD and have tested their speeds with the same case and laptop - speeds are about the same as the Mushkin Alpha 8TB, I think this is most likely due to them both sharing the same and…