Customer Ratings & Reviews

Works great. Dont know what else to tell ya. Worth it if you get it for a discount :))

Very good hard drive so far. Seems very fast also. I trust this brand over most and havent had issues with SanDisk. Also cheaper than if I went most other places for new.

Extremely quick and very easy to install. Very little support needed

Best Buy provided an exceptional shopping experience! The staff was incredibly knowledgeable and helped me find the perfect laptop. Their vast product selection and competitive prices made it easy to choose. The checkout process was smooth, and I appreciated the quick delivery service. The Geek Squad’s support was outstanding, ensuring my device was set up perfectly. Best Buy is now my go-to store for all electronics. Highly recommended for their top-notch service and quality products!

Works great on my Alienware R16, fast than Samsung 980 pro.

Made my used laptop with a small drive like new again with plenty of storage space.

It did everything i thought it would.the price was good easy to install

I use this as my primary OS drive. Works as advertised (very fast)!

Fast and efficient makes downloads extremely fast.

It is a good drive but it does not have windows installed on it. This created some issues for me.

Great drive for the price. No issues after a few months.

He was the one I needed,My son is enjoying it, thanks

Perfect replacement for my broken drive, installed by Geek Squad

As with any take-aways regarding computer memory, hard drives, etc., the bottom line is always, “Does it make a difference in speed?” Many reviewers like to throw around a bunch of benchmark tests and results, comparing numbers that to the average user don’t make much of an impression. But what does make the impression is a noticeable increase in speed. Before I received the SanDisk Extreme M.2 1TB Internal SSD PCIe Gen 4x4 NVMe, (wow, that’s a mouthful!), I was generally happy with the performance of my desktop. I do a lot of video/photo editing and production, and it’s important in many ways to have enough memory with sufficient read/write speeds to get the job done. So the question to answer here is, does the SanDisk Extreme live up to its hype? I fell in love with Western Digital decades ago when they blew the tech world away with their incredible hard drives. So i had very high expectations here as well. There are times when how the product was shipped, that is, how it was packaged for shipment. And I typically consider this issue when writing a review. But that isn’t really a factor in this case. Even with the often brutal handling of packages these days by delivery companies, SanDisk packaged the memory so that it is practically immune from shipping damage. Installing the memory took very little effort. All I had to do was loosen a couple of screws, and the side of the computer came right off. Locating the appropriate slot was easy, and installing the memory stick was nothing more than a matter of inserting it into its slot. There’s only one way it can be inserted, so there isn’t any worry about inserting it wrong. If you are not really sure about how to install an M.2 card, there are plenty of videos and discussion boards to help you along. After installing, I went through the formatting process which took very little time, and I was ready to put the SanDisk to a test. As I stated at the beginning of this review, photo and video editing is my primary use of this particular desktop computer. Over the years I have ridden the wave of faster performance, and have tried out various solutions for being able to do my work faster. Nanoseconds may be insignificant when dealing with simple tasks such as cropping a photo or deleting unwanted video segments. But when your needs become a bit/lot more memory intense, those nanoseconds coupled with memory capacities can turn those nanoseconds in several seconds. None of us like sitting through buffering wait times. I use high-end video editing software. My desktop did a very good job at keeping up, but when performing certain renderings, I have noticed some minor bogging issues. What better way to test out the new memory, right? Holy cow! The speed upgrade was immediately evident. Even the speed with which the software opened up was noticeable! As I opened up a particular file, and began playing around with some of the features, there was an incredible difference in rendering speeds! I am trying not to overly exaggerate, but the differences are so noticeable that its difficult not to. I played around with several other software packages, and was blown away by the speed with which they operated. With 1 TB of storage capacity, and the insanely fast read/write speeds, I have definitely achieved a new milestone in my ability to work MUCH faster than before. As I stated before, the true test is in performance. You can be impressed by all the technical specs, but I am much more impressed by the performance. The SanDisk Extreme M.2 1TB Internal SSD PCIe Gen 4x4 NVMe memory performed so much better than I dreamed possible. Everything was faster. Bottom line. Much, much faster. There were no installation issues, no heating issues, no performance issues. All I encountered were simply amazing results. Thank you Western Digital!! If you have any doubts about the SanDisk M.2 internal SSD, lay them all aside. It is definitely worth the small investment.

Seems like a pretty good drive so far. I'm not really a proffesional (how do you spell that?) photographer but I do like to take a lot of pictures and videos and usually do some editing on them. This can require a fair amount of hard drive space and speed to be more productive. While this may not be the fastest in rated speeds it is still quite fast and seems plenty fast for this purpose. Some rated speeds seem a bit overblown anyway especially with larger files which often slow down as the transfers take longer. This one is made by SanDisk which is a well known brand and quite reliable. They were bought out by Western Digital awhile back which is another good brand which I have trusted for a long time. I have used a lot of hard drives over the years and I prefer Western Digital drives above the others for long life and reliability as well as speed. They just seem to keep on working well. Easy to install as are most m.2 drives if you have an open slot. I put it in my acer i5 laptop which came with a 512 Gb drive but had another slot for an additional m.2 drive so this drive gave me much more space to play with. I also installed quite a few music mp3's and so far it works well. The packaging was kind of surprising as it is quite minimalist (?). It seems to offer less protection than other drives I've purchased but still arrived in very good condition via usps and functions fine. A bit less waste for the landfill is always good.

This is a great additional drive for media, media editing and gaming. I'm an average non-pro user who edits video and makes slideshows occasionally. When installing, it was being compared to my regular SSD that was getting full. I had no expectations of any perceivable speed increase, and I was so very wrong! Loading and executing files is much faster. Without testing software I have no numbers to verify speed differences, but seat of the pants feel and clocking with a stopwatch, it's a good 30% or more faster than a typical SSD. Installation is a breeze, however, no installation screw is included. That's a big complaint from me and would normally drop to 4 stars. If you don't already have a mounting screw, be prepared to buy a mounting screw kit. Inexpensive, but a pain to have to get something extra. While it's a little on the pricey side for 1TB compared to other brands, this has a 5 year warranty. It can also transfers data faster than others in its class. There is no heat sink on this drive which could be a concern on installations without good airflow or cooling. So far with my infrared thermal laser thermometer it hasn't gotten above 38.5 degrees Celsius. This would make a great consistent drive for media editors or gamers. Especially for adding space to a PS5.

Added this card to an empty PCIe slot in my desktop. Install took seconds and it was ready to go. Speeds for processing and rendering video for Youtube took very little time. Even clips with complex graphics and 3D rendering took a fraction of the usual time. Does not come with a heatsink, instead it's encased in a Sandisk cover that I'm guessing is supposed to help disperse heat. My first uses of it generated quite a bit of heat, but not enough to cause me to worry. If you are using it for long stretches, then it might be worth looking into ways of cooling the SSD. Adequate for gaming as well, though I didn't do much with it for that. Tried Ratchet and Clank (which uses the SSD for game effects) and didn't notice any slowdown or clipping. Worked fine. Mostly I'll use this card for photo and video rendering, and for both it works like a charm. 1TB is large enough for most 1080p projects and short 4K products, depending on the encoding one uses. Overall a solid product, as usual, from the gang at Sandisk.

NVMe SSDs are great (for those PCs and other devices that support them) - they're small (especially given their capacity), easy to upgrade and fast. And this SanDisk Extreme 1TB Gen 4x4 is a great example of all that an NVMe SSD can be. If your PC supports a 2280 NVMe SSD (either to replace the current primary drive or as a secondary drive), it's an easy upgrade to install and can provide more space than you have now for files / videos / programs / etc. Provided your PC supports a Gen 4 connection (this is also backwards compatible if you have a Gen 3 slot), this can also provide tremendous speed of up to 5GB/s which is likely to be a good boost for your overall computer performance. SanDisk is a known name in flash storage (behind the scenes, it's also owned by Western Digital, another solid name in the storage industry) and this drive appears to be well-made with great quality and should prove to be highly durable if treated well. So if you could use more space (up to 1TB here) and more speed for your PC - and it supports an NVMe SSD - this is a great drive to try - give it a go today!

One thing I have found over the past five years is that SanDisk is perhaps one of the best manufacturers of flash memory storage. Whether it's one of their USB flash memory keys or one of their external SSD drives. The one time I had a problem with one they replaced it with one model better as they did not have one of the model I had. That's a winner in my book. This Extreme M.2 1TB internal SSD is my first NVMe drives I have had from them and after just a few days I'm here to say it will not be the last. This thing has rather fast read and write speeds. Like wicked fast. And it is a piece of cake to install. Just plug it in and you are off to the races. So far I've not noticed any excessive heating or performance degradation. And this is after spending a few hours copying files to and from the drive as part of my testing it. What pushes it over the top with me is knowing the manufacturer stands behind their stuff. That is piece of mind you don't get with those cheaper no-name drives you'll find out there. Overall this is a solid drive and I highly recommend it.

Sandisk Extreme 1 TB size SSD M.2 NVME So what was needed for the Windows 11 gaming laptop being used was more capacity for games, movies, pictures and files. Since my gaming laptop I use as my main computer (due to the fast response and the powerful Nvidia GeForce 4060 video GPU) has space for a second NVME M.2 module this SanDisk easily tripled my capacity from the 512GB that the computer came with to a total of 1.5TB after this SanDisk was installed. I carefully opened up my laptop and carefully installed this M.2 module. My laptop was good enough to have the tighten-down retaining screw on the M.2 slot location for this second NVME and therefore installation was quick and easy. I just had to find my small screwdrivers set but after I found that the M.2 module just snapped in with the gold connecter end and was secured down with the screw. Windows 11 on my laptop recognized it on the next power-up and I see the additional drive letter in my File Explorer matrix. As a photographer (an amateur photographer "plus" who almost always carries a bag or backpack with a DSLR in addition to a smartphone for pictures) the added storage space on my laptop is appreciated. The SanDisk Extreme M.2 produces very fast response when transferring camera or phone pictures to the laptop via USB cable as well as when opening saved images. While using several image cropping/manipulation/editing programs the response never lags or stutters when using the SanDisk M.2 as the main storage destination. For now, for my needs, it has ample space for photos, music, some videos, and some documents with the capacity of 1TB. SanDisk provides a 5 year warranty. Keep your proof of purchase should the need arise to enforce said warranty. Strongly recommended.