Mushkin Pilot-E – 500GB PCIe NVMe – Opal Data Encryption – M.2 (2280) Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) – Gen3 x4 – 3D TLC - (MKNSSDPE500GB-D8)

Installation is really easy . No screws . Just slide in and move the lever to lock the drive and format. It’s that simple.

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.

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!

This is the first and only SSD I have had fail so far out of 17 SSDs I have purchased in the past 8 years. Unfortunately, this is the only Mushkin unit out of the 17. The unit completely failed without warning about a month ago, which means it ran for 14 months. Now, it was in a gaming desktop that runs 24x7 so the environment was demanding. But all of the other 16 SSDs are in the same situation without any other failures. Just some food for thought.

When I couldn't get my computer to recognize this 2TB drive I called their customer service number and got a real person immediately. Not only that but after some basic questions they looked up my motherboard info and were able to determine that my motherboard only accepts up to 1TB ssd. I would have never thought of this as being the problem and never in a million years would have figured out this was the problem. I returned this and ordered the 1TB and it was immediately recognized and works perfectly. Above and beyond service and an excellent drive. I am getting at or very near advertised speeds. Will buy from them again for sure.

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.

Es algo caliente, pero creo es normal al ser un M.2, le compré un disipador para mejorar esa temperatura, pero pese a eso siempre anda promedio a 44 grados, a diferencia de mi SSD un WD que siempre está en promedio en 30 grados, creo que pese a ser una temperatura algo alta, no me preocupa, por mucho que se degrade su vida útil, probablemente cambie de PC antes de que comience con fallas, tengo un HDD de hace más de 15 años y sigue funcionando, seguro para ese momento ya hasta hay algo mejor y ya migré, el M.2 lo utilizo para instalar software y juegos, entonces la verdad que con 1 tb me va muy bien, los juegos inician relativamente rápido y la PC pues en segundos está lista para trabajar, en cuanto a transferencia cumple con lo prometido, aunque eso si, la temperatura se dispara, logré mover archivos de 10 gb en unos cuantos segundos, pero también la temperatura se elevo por arriba de los 60 grados, en fin eso sucede solo cuando se queda el disco haciendo transferencia así que no big deal, en los juegos no se me eleva prácticamente la temperatura se queda igual en sus 44 grados y van fluidos, he probado desde juegos de steam, EPIC, software de desarrollo y todo va muy bien. Solo hay algo que no me gusta aunque es una bobada, el foquito led rojo que tiene que no deja de parpadear me afecta mi RGB jaja

The drive is used and probably at the end of its life. It came with a bunch of crypto mining files (chia plot bins) which is known to kill SSDs in a matter of months (instead of years). Total scam!

Excelente producto cumple con las velocidades indicadas en la publicación, estoy muy satisfecho con el producto

2TB Speicher und Geschwindigkeit ist okay

Unkomplizierter Einbau und macht was sie soll. Geschwindigkeiten stimmen wie angegeben.