💽 256GB WDC M.2 PCIe NVMe Internal Solid State Drive - 80mm 2280 Form Factor Opal Review

I bought this because my little brother was missing the old SATA SSD he was using. It was a doubling of capacity so not a huge improvement given the size of games these days but this NVME on the old z97 chipset platform combined with a 2TB HDD makes my brother's gaming life a joy 😊

Great drive at $33. If you want a 256GB NVMe, this is what you need. at $33 (35 now they're raising the price, I've shared the Amazon link in many places. ;p) It's solid. Sustained write speeds top out at around 500MB/s for long writes, and there's absolutely nothing to complain about. Phenomenal drive. qualitative. one-sided. It has 4 tokens. If I had to guess I would say 1 chip is DRAM, 2 chips is 128GB Flash and 4 is the controller.

Everything works very well so far. It was super fast and reliable. Windows loads in seconds. It was easy to physically install it. Although it doesn't come with a screw. I was lucky I already had a spare so it wasn't a problem. It was a little difficult to install Windows on it. Because the Windows USB boot installer couldn't see it. I got around this by installing Windows on a regular hard drive and then cloning that hard drive to SSD using Acronis software.

I bought three of these and the Smart Data for all three shows they got at least a little use. They had intelligent data on things like power cycles, run hours, unsafe shutdowns, etc., all of which lead me to believe they came from faulty returned/refurbished PCs that had problems. On the other hand, the data show the remaining life expectancy. I don't mind buying used components, but I do want to be an informed decision maker. Two stars deducted for lack of clarity. Great wheels so far.

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So my 128GB drive on my MacBook Air was almost full (remember that?), I tried to install the new beta and got the error message "Not enough places". . So I did what anyone would do, I uninstalled everything knowing I could reinstall it later. Still not enough space. I tried moving the setup file to an external drive. No, it still wouldn't be enough space. So I contacted Revain and found this SSD, now for those of you looking for an upgrade, it's not a Macbook plug and play device. You need an…