Mushkin Pilot NVMe drives

[UsandThem]

I came across these on Amazon earlier, and posted a deal in the hot deals forum.

https://forums.anandtech.com/thread...ives-120gb-500gb-54-99-134-99-amazon.2549240/

Upon researching it a little more, these drives look amazing for the price/performance aspect, and are priced almost as low as their SATA counterparts. For comparison, the 500GB version is priced at $135, with claimed specs of:

• 500GB M.2 (2280) PCIe 3.0 x4 NVM Express 1.2 SSD
• Compatibility: Desktop PC / Laptop Notebooks
• Max Read: 2,680 MB/s ; Max Write: up to 1,755 MB/s
• Silicon Motion Controller: SMI SM2262
• 3-Year Limited Warranty

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/mushkin-2018-ssd-lineup,36341.html

Now, apparently there is going to be a Pilot-E drive soon, and for a 500GB version of that drive, they list sequential performance of 3,500 MB/s read, 3,000 MB/s write. I can't wait for a review of these new drives, because if the regular Pilot NVMe drive can hit the claimed specs for that amount, it will be a home run product in my opinion.

 

[Shmee]

Good price for an NVMe drive of that size, whether the performance is top notch or not.

 

[aaronwt]

I've been using the 250GB versions in some Dell Inspiron PCs the last few weeks. I'm getting 16Gb/s(2000MB/s) read speeds and 8Gb/s(1000MB/s) write speeds. But my Dell is speed limited to 2000MB/s so I can't see the full read speeds the 250GB version is capable of. But I still get several second boot times from Windows 10. I have been very pleased with the 250GB versions for only $75. And now they cost even less.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Sounds like they might have a winner. I'll have to check them out. Still have an SX6000 M.2 NVMe 512GB BNIB waiting to be used.