Gigabyte AORUS 1TB NVMe PCIe Gen4 M.2-2280 High Performance Solid State Drive

Update: I have been using this for about 7 months now and decided to do a Crystal Mark test. Well... the numbers speak for themselves.Bought this to pair with my Aorus x570 Elite. (so yes gen 4 can be utilized)Value for the money is horrible, it will not make you a better gamer, but really easy to install.I have a Crucial MX500 1TB SATA SSD and I see zero difference in loading games. So the SATA has turned into a game library since there is no performance difference. Transferring large files though is a different story, it is fast, and Acronis software that came with my Crucial SSD worked to clone my operating system on the this. It loads into windows super fast. My bios gives me like, 3 seconds to mash delete to get into bios, after that I am basically in windows. No waiting. I used to wait maybe 15-20 seconds to be completely in Windows. Now its like 8 seconds. It makes every other computer I use feel broken. If you have a special use case for this and have the money it is a great M.2. I only bought it because I have an X570 board, and what is the point of having one of these boards if you are not going to take advantage of PCIe Gen 4? I might buy the 500GB version for my operating system, transfer my game library to this 1TB, and use my Crucial SSD as a media folder.

Awesome drive. I installed it with the heatsink, and temps remain in the optimal range. Very easy to install. Very easy to remove heatsink if you don't want to use it, though I haven't a clue why you'd buy this m.2 drive if not for the hunk of copper that comes with it. There are better performing drives for cheaper. Aesthetically it is very pleasing and matches copper water cooling piping quite well.This is the primary drive in my system (C:\) and is super fast.For what it's worth, this is a highly visible component on boards with the m.2 slot right above the first PCIe slot, but it absolutely disappears if you're putting a large air cooler on your CPU.

This device [GIGABYTE AORUS] was easy to install for my PS5. It is a Gen 4 SSD (which is the requirement for use of the expansion slot). Fast, efficient, ESO Game transfer from the main console drive (136G) into the SSD only took about 2min and now operates as primary source for game play with faster than expected speeds. I am very happy with this product.

I typically buy Samsung Products, when it comes to hard drives, such as the Samsung 980 PRO or EVO models. However, with my most recent PC build I went with a Gigabyte AORUS Motherboard, and decided to try the Gigabyte AORUS NVMe SSD. I'm actually pretty impressed with this drive, it's very similar to the Samsung drives I own, in terms of speed and features. I would recommend this product, as it's a more reasonably priced with very similar IOPS and Read/Writes Speeds to the Samsung EVO & PRO equivilents.