TEAMGROUP MP33 512GB SLC Cache 3DNAND TLC NVMe PCIe Gen3x4 M.2 2280 Internal SSD R/W up to 1700/1400 MB/s Compatible w/ Laptop&Desktop TM8FP6512G0C101

Item came as described, was a easy setup and ran testing on it and shockingly it outperformed my primary hard drive by 211% lol. It is compatible with older models as I am still using my HP Elitebook 850 g3 and no issues. The speed is great for a affordable drive.

Used this in my new PC, it's running my OS. I use my PC for heavy gaming and other miscellaneous computer things. The quality is great I've been using it for over a year! It fit perfectly in my build, it was easy to install and the performance is just great! I have no issues with it and my PC runs and boots up super fast! I would order this again for any future builds and even recommend it to friends!

(For people that install the drive and freak out because they don't see it in files explorer, there will a tutorial for you down below)(Your new SSD doesn't have a file system, so Windows really doesn't know how to communicate with it. So we have to initialize the drive, we are gonna assign a file system that Windows can understand. To do this, it's really simple. Just go ahead and right-click on the Windows icon and go up to Disk Management. This will pop up the Disk Management Utility, and if you just installed a drive like i did, you'll see this little window here that says Initialize. In here, we can go ahead and select our partition style. We're going to want to use GPT. This is going to be pretty much for any modern computer or a modern drive, and click OK. And just by doing that, there's now a partitioning system that Windows can use to actually communicate with the device, but it still doesn't show up here. Well, that's because we haven't formatted the drive or assigned it a drive letter. So to do that, it's pretty simple. All we got to do is right click in this unallocated space area, click new simple volume, and this will pop up the new simple volume wizard. Here we can click next. Next again, this will do the full size of the drive automatically. And then we're going to assign it the letter D. Click next. And then we can name it whatever we want and click next one more time and click finish. This will go ahead and format the drive. And if we now check in File Explorer, we'll now see that our data drive shows two terabytes (or whatever size you bought) of free space).Great reliable, fast and cheap drive.

For what the 512 GB, 1/2 TB, 3.0x4 is designed, to be inexpensive and to work right for a regular multipurpose PC, these "little sticks of gum" are doing their job. I put these into 2 of my PCs that I am giving away, both of which are otherwise very powerful. Purpose being to remove all my data. In each, they seamlessly functioned as clean. And easy installation of windows. Something about a 4 TB 5.0x4 makes installation difficult, and those are for hot setups. So later on when the ladies I gifted these PCs to want to increase or "raid" them, they can do so easily, and won't need to install windows into their bigger faster SSDs.I know, the 3.0x4 go fast for awhile, then slow down a little, then fast again. That's not an instability. It's what 3.0s do. So, these do well and as expected. They were inexpensive, take windows easily. I like.

If you’re worried about swapping out your ssd on your steam deck don’t be. It’s super easy to swap out and even easier to flash steamOS on the new one. I now have 3tb of storage total in my sd card. It works perfectly and helps download and transfer files go by super fast. I’d recommend this for the steam deck and ally x or any other handheld PCs!

My slight problem with this drive was installing it. Not cause I didn't know how, but wasn't sent and anchor screw with the drive. Also no instructions on how to install came with the box. Simply just the drive and the box pointing to the teamgroup website. Took me a bit to navigate the site to find the warranty info as well. Lucky I have a box of mixed computer screws and was able to anchor down the drive. Once installed and initialized works great and am happy with the performance.

i like TeamGroup. Good ol' MP44. I think i have about 24 or 25 of these drives i've bought over the last couple of years. no joke. i put these things in everything. i have 9 of them in my primary desktop alone (4 in an external SSD array and 5 sitting in the motherboard). They are running in Hard Raid mode. They are not the fastest but also not the slowest either. The price point is great for the quality you get. i've not had one of these drives fail yet. I also have 2 Raspberry Pi 5's each of them have 2 of these drives attached. These drives are my go to drives for pretty much everything. when 4TB SSDs come down in price i'll start buying those. but for now, 2TB is just fine.

Replaced a 500gb drive. It's fast and reliable at a great price.