Inland 1TB Gaming NVMe SSD Internal Solid State Drive Optimized for PS5

I recently purchased the Inland 2TB Performance Plus M.2 SSD, and I couldn't be happier with my decision. This is my second Inland drive, and I must say they offer some of the best performance on the market while being very reliable and affordable. The 2TB capacity is perfect for my needs, allowing me to store a vast amount of data without worrying about running out of space. The functionality is impressive; I noticed a significant boost in load times for my applications and games compared to my previous SSD. The read speeds are particularly noteworthy, making file transfers and system boot-ups incredibly fast. In terms of quality, Inland has always delivered, and this SSD is no exception. It feels robust and well-made. Compatibility was a breeze as well; it seamlessly integrated with my motherboard without any issues. Overall, I highly recommend the Inland 2TB Performance Plus M.2 SSD to anyone looking for a high-performance, reliable storage solution that won’t break the bank. With a 5-star rating, it truly deserves it!

I purchased this drive at the end of 2022 to swap into my launch model PS5, whose 2TB expansion drive was quickly filling up. I put the 2TB drive into our living room PS5, which my wife and visitors use, and then put this new 4TB drive into my game room console. The drive works great, and I can not tell any difference in gaming performance between this budget drive and the Samsung that I had before it. If you need an expansion drive for PS5, this one is really hard to beat for the price! The price with & without the heatsink for these drives used to be a considerable enough difference that I used my own heatsink for both PS5's, but as of the time of this review, it seems it's only a few extra dollars to get one of these INLAND drives with a heatsink included. May as well pay the small extra and get the heatsink with it. It's been over 4 months since I installed this drive and there's no signs of slowdown yet. The drive has 1.75TB of free space with 52 games installed on it. Some of the games are huge, at over 100GB each, so this drive has been a blessing! I should have enough space between this one and the internal to get me through the generation without having to delete too much at any given time, which is great for those of us stuck with data caps.

Considering you’ve got one SSD expansion slot on the PS5, might as well go for largest capacity SSD you can afford. Took a chance and snagged this 2TB Inland SSD for a good price (cheapest 2TB option available anywhere on the internet that I could find as of this writing) along with a Sabrent PS5 heatsink. Took all but 5 minutes to install. Just as one of the other reviewers showed, I’m getting blazing fast read speeds up there with the fastest SSDs that I’ve seen tested for the PS5 (I’ve done a lot of research). As of right now, I’d recommend this drive for the purpose of use in the PS5. Only concern I have is longevity and reliability, which only time will tell on that front. But with a 6 year warranty (seemingly 1 year longer than the typical 5 years you usually get), it’s not that big of a concern. Also, since this isn’t a commonly tested brand, only time will tell if it starts to slow down over time or if there are any other issues that crop up with use (caching problems, etc). But so far, so good and I have no complaints (except for maybe the old school pain in the butt plastic packaging that requires a knife/scissors to open).

My laptop is not gen 4. In fact, it is gen 3 by 2 lanes, so I top out at around 1700MB/s sequential anyway. And q1t1 (which gives you "snappiness") is fine, around 65 like most mid range drives. But at the time of my purchase (about $440) this was the least expensive 4tb drive, period. The gen 3 version was a few dollars more and did not stand out in any regard. No brainier! The ratings are good, no widespread failure options in the news, and if I upgrade to a notebook with pcie 4 in a few years, will I care about any modest performance gains a second or third generation of pcie 4.0 controllers will deliver? Probably not a lot. Maybe in two years I will want an 8tb, maybe. Of course, there is workload to consider. I do some dev work that benefits from ultra low latency; that is not this drive. But for upgrading notebooks that currently live in 2022? It's fine performance, and currently among the best prices, some days the best price, and the high parallelism from so many nand chips puts it pretty close to the sequential max for pcie 4.0. That is a lot of future proofing. Why wouldn't you if you need 4tb? Well, there is a low end 4tb sata out there (if you can use sata) for substantially less, but most of the 4tb sata drives I would trust are in the same price range as this. So don't do sata unless you absolutely have to. Will nand prices fall further? In the next few months (3rd and 4th quarter of 2022)? There is your only reason. Some analysts expect prices to fall further. It is a gamble, but if you need an nvme drive today to extend an older laptop that is full? All go. Update: a few weeks after purchase, I see there is a Teamgroup pcie 3.0 4tb out there for about 90 or 100 dollars less, for 4tb. If you are pretty sure that will do you for a few years it may be a meaningfully better price for effectively the same performance assuming you will be on pcie 3.0 for the long haul. But if you plan to upgrade to a 4.0 PC in the coming year, this may be better. Your call.

The new NVME was able to transfer from the console (354GB) to NVME in less than 4 minutes. Which is bad? Technically, it should have taken less than 2 minutes per the NVME write speeds, but background activities and PS5 bloatware could have slowed down the transfer speed and whether the heatsink (JEYI) helped or not. Installation is pretty self-explanatory. The 1TB I purchased is not even close to the advertised read speed but at least it "barely" meets Sony's PS5 requirements. After moving all games to the NVME, the PS5 became more responsive. I got the NVME because the internal storage doesn't degrade that quickly (from all the writing/reading). Overall not a bad NVME Gen4 for $100. Other notes. I used a JEYI heatsink purchased here on Amazon and a leftover 1mm GELID Ultimate thermal pad (stacked to 2mm thickness).

This is the second time in four years that one of these Inland 4TB M.2 drives overheated (like, too hot to touch), and under entirely different circumstances. First one was in an external enclosure with a heat sink over Thunderbolt on a Mac; this new one failed within a few hours of various sustained read/writes when installed in a PC on Windows 11 (on motherboard with heat sink top and bottom). I gave them a second chance figuring the newer generation would be more reliable... nope. And with the datacenter-driven disgusting pricing of components, it's particularly bad to be offering such a product. And a six year warranty? Good luck unless you happen to live near a Micro Center location – they won't do RMAs or any type of support via internet or mail. There's no store within 300 miles of me. Ridiculous.

Too slow.. but works well! But get a new in another website! But had good reviews, 4500 speed tested!

Great drives. I tend to use them often for client builds. Phison controller and an overall great performer.