Good price but not sure who would need it. It's a standard SSD speed M2 and anyone who has a slot for this will likely already have it filled with at least 256Gb. If using to upgrade an empty slot, most of those will be capable of PCIE speeds and so you'd be wasting the slot buying this. Given there is no speed improvement over a standard SSD, it's a bit of a niche purchase.

As far as I can tell the M.2 slot in that Dell does not support PCI-E (which is a crazy decision by Dell), so it seems like this type of SATA M.2 drive suits machines like that pretty well. You could install it and use it as a smaller boot/system drive and use your 1TB drive for other stuff.

Good price. Nice drive.

Good price but not sure who would need it. It's a standard SSD speed M2 and anyone who has a slot for this will likely already have it filled with at least 256Gb. If using to upgrade an empty slot, most of those will be capable of PCIE speeds and so you'd be wasting the slot buying this. Given there is no speed improvement over a standard SSD, it's a bit of a niche purchase.

As far as I can tell the M.2 slot in that Dell does not support PCI-E (which is a crazy decision by Dell), so it seems like this type of SATA M.2 drive suits machines like that pretty well. You could install it and use it as a smaller boot/system drive and use your 1TB drive for other stuff.

That's a good price - about the same as a 120GB Evo. I need to buy one of these to put in an Intel NUC so I can use the 2.5" slot for a 2TB conventional drive.

Nvme cards are so damn expensive & I'm not sure I would notice any difference in a HTPC.

The OP forgot the most important spec for laptop use: the size.
Anyway, this 80mm long, so form factor 2280. so there will be plenty of laptops and tablets which cannot fit this.

You can use one of these in laptops with an M.2 and 2.5" bay so you can use the 2.5" bay for a large capacity HDD like a 2TB Samsung spinpoint.

using sandforce controller? if so expect data loss and corruption

Sandforce aren't as bad as they used to be. If you treated the drive right and were extra cautious they didn't do any harm besides slow down compressed data transfer.

Some information you need to check before purchasing an M.2 SSD. Firstly check whether your port supports PCIe Gen 3 and also NVMe support. A PCIe NVMe SSD is far faster/superior to the SSD in this deal.I'll give an example the Samsung SM951 NVMe Extreme performance - up to 2150MB/1200MB sequential read/write data transfer rates. 300,000 IOPS.

Most people would buy this SSD in this deal for putting in a laptop with M.2 support. However do check the capabilities of your M.2 socket as you might want to invest in a much faster part.

The two controller standards used on M.2 interface are AHCI (older) and NVMe (latest) but depending on your hardware whether you can use NVMe or not.

Also more than double the price of this.

Definitely.

There are loads of older devices with 128GB M.2 SSDs for this to be an upgrade for.

For newer devices PCIe support is becoming common but there are plenty of older ones that are SATA M.2 only.

Typical home users would be wasting their money in paying roughly twice the price for a PCIe M.2 drive as under typical home workloads the difference in performance is negligible.
It’s like recommending someone who drives a car at up to 70 mph and accelerates gently to pay twice as much for a car that does 170 mph and hits 60 in 4 seconds.
Unless they use software that pushes the drive well above 75mph or actually uses the acceleration available it’s pointless.

I agree with all this. I've previously mentioned faster M.2 SSDs in this thread just as information for some people who can take advantage of it, so it's not a suggestion to buy the faster one for the sake of it, only if you utilise it.

Argh... This puts me off again. Was about to buy it. Will be waiting samsung to drop in price. It will be quite a wait.

Oh. And how do I find out what controller it uses?

Hmmm. I must be the only one thinking about getting four of these for a TB RAiD0 boot/game drive for my haswell msi notebook. :smiley:

The write speed is a bit slower than some other drives as this one doesn't have a DRAM cache.

Glad i didn't buy it. Was happy because it was m.2 and have two on my Mb. Looking up tomahardware has the poorest performance in the cheap ssd range. Now lloking up which is the best there but whatever you do samsung is the one to have an eye on. Reading a bit more but the time I waste for saving 10-15£ over Samsung seems it's not worth it...