INLAND QN446 2TB M.2 2230 SSD PCIe Gen 4.0x4 NVMe Internal Solid State Drive Gaming Internal SSD, Compatible with Steam Deck, ROG Ally Mini PCs

Works really well with my PCEasy install, great speed and storage

I got this because my 2017 21.5" iMac was so dang slow. I was 100% sure it was because I got the lowest end model with just a standard SATA hard drive. People said they could live with it, but I think there was something wrong with mine perhaps it could have been all the junk that accumulated when I restored my data from my Time Machine backup. Mac benchmarks would yield a top read speed of about 50 MB/s. Other benchmarks like the Blackmagic Disk Speed test yielded about 25-30 MB/s. It was terrible.So I got this NVMe to use externally on a USB 3.1 Gen 2 enclosure. I know it is not as fast as mounting it on an internal NVMe M.2 slot but my iMac doesn't even have an M.2 slot internally. Best I could do internally is a slower SATA SSD which is not faster than USB 3.1 Gen 2. I could also maximize the NVMe's throughput by using a Thunderbolt enclosure but I was not willing to spend that much money.Either way, I am very pleased with this NVMe as it is much faster than the internal drive, which was near impossible to use prior to this upgrade. As you can see from the attached image, the benchmark on the left is the internal Apple hard drive, while the one on the right is this NVMe SSD. There is no CrystalDiskMark for MacOS so I'm using my Windows Boot Camp drive to test. I formatted the internal hard drive as exFAT and also created a small partition on the SSD and also formatted with exFAT so I can access both with Windows. The SSD is about 9 times faster in sequential read and write. Using a MacOS benchmark with the Apple File System intact, the SSD was more like 18 times faster.Any SSD will yield better results compared to a traditional hard drive. One of the reasons I chose this over the cheaper Crucial P1 is that this SSD uses TLC as opposed to the P1's QLC. That fact should increase longevity.Pros:-Fast, even when used externally-Just a tad bit more expensive than the cheaper Crucial P1Cons:-Not a well-known brand name-Not really a con, but I'm sad I could not post the kind of benchmarks other people have

I got a Raspberry Pi 5 and an M.2 Hat for it, and I wanted to get an SSD that would work with it to experiment with. I was really just wanting to try out the features of the Raspberry Pi 5 and to see how easy it is to enable the use of an SSD.I found this one and it was very reasonably priced for the size. It plugged right into the M.2 Hat and it was easy to configure the Raspberry Pi 5 to boot from it. It is amazing how fast the Pi is when running from this rather than from a Micro SD card.

I held off buying NVME drives for a long time because SATA SSDs were cheaper and were still hugely faster than older HDDs. But now some NVME SSDs are the same price as SATA SSDs and are faster, so it was time to upgrade. I use my Inland (Microcenter) NVME as my boot drive with a separate partition for gaming and it is flawless.Pros:+ PRICE! Why buy a SATA drive when an NVME is faster, costs the same, and has no cables?+ Fast! Phison E12 controller has similar performance to Samsung NVMEs that cost more than twice as much as Inland.+ Uses 512e sector size for easy cloning with other SSDs/HDDs if you need to. (The Sabrent Rocket uses 4K sector size, which may cause problems with cloning depending on your software. If you clean install, this doesn't matter!)+ Runs cool. It's usually around 35C when doing basic computing and jumps to a whole ~40C when loading a game. I maxed out at 66C benching with CrystalDiskMark. When copying game files from one SSD to my Inland, I maxed out at 64C. When copying game files from an HDD, it was under 60C. Unless you're working with HUGE files or copying lots of files back and forth constantly, it's not going to overheat on you. I'm using a Ryzen 1500X with a tower cooler, and my NVME slot is located between the CPU and GPU. I have a Meshify C case with 2 140mm intake fans and 2 120mm exhaust fans, so it has plenty of airflow.+ If you do install an aftermarket heatsink, the drive is mostly bare. You won't have to worry about voiding a warranty by removing stickers. More manufacturers should do this!Cons- Most other Phison E12 controller NVME drives have 5 year warranties. Inland's is only 3 years.- Doesn't come with any software for upgrading firmware or monitoring drive health and such. Not a big deal. I use HWiNFO64 for monitoring drive health anyway.

***Update: Failed at 1 year 10 month mark. 21 May 2021.I think it failed due to heat even though I have had it under the motherboard heat spreader in the onboard m.2 slot with lots of fans. If not heat then it just failed on it's own explicably. Not sure. Right now it will BSOD the OS if I copy anything to/from it at high speed. Can't run any disk speed utilities as it will also fail and disappear from visibility in the os. Even under a different OS boot drive to confirm. Definitely a failed drive. Not happy to see this fail so soon. I can only copy files off of it one at a time because if I get more than 3GB of files queued up the drive will lock up and disappear from the OS and require a reboot to see it again. There is a 3-year warranty. I'll try reaching out to Inland and see how well the support their customers and products. I'll post an update with the outcome.I just bought and installed this in my Asrock x570 Pro4 motherboard with a Ryzen 3900x CPU running a Ryzentosh Hackintosh with the latest MacOS Mojave 10.14.5 using the Vanilla AMD guide. Incredible. Works flawlessly for a Hackintosh. I also own the Adata XPG 8200 pro which is also very good, but I paid around $200 for it when it first came out. *Havent tried the adata on a Hackintosh yet though. This one is half that at only $105 and has the latest controller and Toshiba chips on it. Talk about the deal of the year. This is it. Works flawlessly and fast as heck. This is the one to beat right now over all other drives for both performance and price.