Inland Premium 256GB 3D NAND TLC M.2 2280 Internal Solid State Drive

The Inland Premium NVMe, as many others have discussed is a NVMe that uses high quality parts found in many other ‘reference’ design NVMe’s at a much higher price. So what you end up with is a blazing fast, great performing Gen 3 NVMe SSD that if it had anyone elses name on it, could cost you as much as 50% more then Inlands name being on it.The updated version of this NVMe, at least the one I got, uses a Phison E12s nickel plated controller(likely for better heat dissipation since that issue was a common problem for all the older NVMe’s that use this same reference design. That E12s is paired with Toshiba 3D TLC flash Memory. It also comes with a rating of 3500mbps seq read, 3100mbps seq write(depending on the capacity) and a 360 TBW rating. These specs are good enough to go head to head with just about any Gen 3 NVMe on the market.I purchased the 256gb variant since it will only have an OS and one or two programs on the drive, but am very happy with the performance and price paid. The ONLY place that Inland is really lacking is in their Warranty. The 3 year warranty offerer on this drive falls below the standard 5 years offered on most NVMe’s, however its quite unlikely due to the quality parts and time tested reference design used in this drive that it will fail within the 3 year period, so buy with confidence.Whether your looking for a small boot drive to have your OS and programs on it, or for mass storage in the form of an NVMe, the Inland Premium NVMe can give you above average performance for the industry without having to spend an arm and a leg for it. This same design is sold by other companies such as Sabrent for a bunch more money.Just to note: while I mentioned the updated Phison E12s in my review, I just wanted to add that my DRAM chip on mine is from ESMT.

I installed this in a Gigabyte B450 Aorus motherboard. It could have been easier to physically install but that was no fault of Inland. I had to remove my video card to install it. Not a big deal. It was recognized in bios without a problem.I didn’t want to do a fresh install but ToDo backup would not let me clone my boot drive to this one because of the formatting. So - I did a partial new install just to format the new drive and then used ToDo to clone my old SSD. Worked perfectly and I don’t have to reinstall all my apps. (This is good news)Sequential reads are about 2800, not bad for a smaller drive. Games & things load instantly.The Gigabyte motherboard is the slowest POSTing board ever. It takes 18 seconds before it displays a logo. Pitiful.I’m wondering if this drive would be a good choice for high quality DAW usage.

I bought this for a budget build for my kids virtual-classroom computer (B450 AM4 motherboard + Athlon 3000g). What you are getting under that Inland sticker (MicroCenter house brand) with the 256GB "3D NAND TLC M.2 2280" model, is Phison PS5012-E12 controller based NVMe using Phison's bone-stock reference design with Toshiba TLC NAND flash and DDR4L DRAM cache. The result is a better than advertised (by Inland/MicroCenter) almost exactly 3000 MB/s read and 1000 MB/s write (sequential), which is exactly what Phison's spec-sheet performance claims.This is not a cut-rate product: virtually identical drives are sold (using exactly the same parts) under other major brand names. In-fact, I'm pretty sure Kingston sources their drives from the same OEM (since they're visually identical).Overall, these are solid NVMe's for the money.

So, overall this is a really good deal and an awesome product. For the price it is unbeatable. I have bought over 50 inland ssds and only 1 has failed. The NVME ssds are ridiculously fast. Note they are still lower than some brand name NVMEs but for the price, these are the best. Buy this and you can rest assured that your system will be extremely fast.