Mushkin Pilot-E – 2TB PCIe NVMe – Opal Data Encryption – M.2 (2280) Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) – Gen3 x4 – 3D TLC - (MKNSSDPE2TB-D8)

The Good: I had no problems installing it, It turned on, performance is within the range of an NVME drive.The Bad: Crystaldiskmark is reporting 2450 MB/S read and 2650 MB/S writes. The websites reviewing this product were reporting 3300 MB/S read, 2600 MB/s write. That's a fairly big difference. I'm hoping Mushkin has an updated firmware or something.The Ugly: To make matters worse, this product isn't even listed on the manufacturer's website. I've opened up a support ticket with the manufacturer to see how they'll respond, maybe they'll have an updated firmware. I'll report what happens here.Other Words: In the meantime, if you want an SM2262EN-based NVME SSD, I would recommend the HP EX950 or the ADATA XPG SX8200 pro.Edit: I'm revising my review to 5-stars. Mushkin got back to me within a few hours of my creating a support case. The person who responded was knowledgeable and assisted me troubleshooting the drive's slowness. It turns out it was my laptop, a Dell XPS 15 9570 having strange issues with this drive (strange issues in general). When I re-tested the drive on my desktop Z270 chipset system, the scores were well within expectation. I was getting 3300+MB/S read and 2800+MB/S write.

I just used this to upgrade the SSD in a new Lenovo P53s. A note on why CDM only shows partial capacity: it was partitioned-- (Lenovo sales swore up and down the P53s model I bought had dual SSD drives. Of course when I opened it up expecting to pop the Pilot-E in an empty slot, there was only one which was almost full due to migrated stuff from my previous computer, and also had the OS on it..) I had to use macrium, recovery usb and an external HD to get the image on there. What a PITA. I was just trying to get this thing working because school starts for me in a few days. (Mind you, I was upgrading from a 6 year old tank of a T530 with an Ivy Bridge which did everything I needed it to do, albeit....... ...slowly.)Anyway, I digress... this SSD works as advertised (fast!) and is incredibly inexpensive. I've used Mushkin memory before many years ago with great results, which is why I didn't hesitate to buy this SSD. What a steal!

Quality: it's mexican, not chinese. Even better than most taiwanese ones. Have purchased before and will buy again.Compatibility: very lovely to fill the 3,500MB/s of the pcie 3 m.2 connectivity on both z390 and x470 boards.Storage: this particular pilot-e model is highly recommended. Superb performance and huge space.Bravo Mushkin

Decent R/W's and great endurance rating 1300TBW! Mushkin makes pretty good storage but not the best Samsung. Has DRAM but the only downside is three year warranty but most users won't keep it past that anyways.

This NVMe works rather well. Not too sure if it was meant to be any faster than a regular SSD, but this has the same boot time as my WD Blue 1TB SSD.The NVMe is easy to install, installed on an Asrock B365 Pro4 motherboard.Would I get this again? Yes, I would. Especially at its lower price than other 1TB NVMe are.Finally bought a 2nd one so I can clone Win10 from the original. Still have no issues with the first one that I previously bought. And so far there has been no issues with this 2nd one.

I'm glad I did this purchase.I recently bought a laptop that came with a 128GB m.2 drive and I was sick of running out of memory just with the windows installation. I wanted to use that computer for work basically and I couldn't install many things on it. So I bought this little thing and the rest is history.I really like how fast this drive is and how quick everything loads, including the OS, faster than anything I've tried so far.I definitely recommend this for anyone looking into upgrade the storage at a great price.

This drive is top tier and is consistently priced reasonably.You can go through the trouble of figuring out which drives uses the good controllers and keep and eye out for sales on one of them, most of which need to be steeply discounted to be good value, but lately I have just been buying these. It doesn't really go on sale because it is priced very well all the time.Bottom line, it has a top tier controller, excellent performance, and is consistently available at a price that puts it in a strong value position.

So far the drive is working one day in. ease of install would be five star but it doesn't come with the screw. of course I have a ton laying around. Just a heads up for those who don't.Didn't do any speed tests. Didn't buy it for the speed, bought it for the saved space in a laptop. SATA6 vs. NVME speed difference isn't noticeable at all unless you are doing large IO (more than gaming or day to day use) .. but the smaller foot print is worth the few extra bucks.