My review STATE for this hard DRIVE is a SOLID four stars.

I didn't have a spare mounting screw, so I had to buy one for R20 from this other PC shop.
(Crazy/Mental if you get what I'm saying)

Wootware is the best.
Good price. Friendly staff.

this soild state drive is perfect for gaming and having my operating system on so that everything runs fast and smoothly, without this i would be struggling with my hhd 500gig that would really annoy me, but with all things aside this is a great product to recommend

Still using the same drive I bought in 2021. Still going strong. CrystalDiskInfo says it is 99% good today 19 June 2023.
Eskom power failures caused it to lose some integrity a couple of times, auto disk repair fixed it quickly. Never lost 1 bit of data I could notice.

Heated up to 54 degrees Celsius during summer months. Stuck two small heatsinks intended to cool transistors to the processor and put in a dedicated 12V silent micro fan and now temperature never exceeds 45 degrees. Cost me about R30 for the cooling but the SSD is happy.

I am extremely happy with this product. Thanks Wootware for great advise.

Very happy with the drive, performs as expected. With the only performance issue I have had with it being random 4k read performance sitting at 70MB/s.

Performing according to specs

Running this on a x570s Elite and having endless problems which after various tests I'm assuming has to with compatibility. Seems to be a hit and miss M.2.

I bought 2 of these about 2 and a half years ago. One of them died a year ago and the other just died now. Luckily Wootware replaced the first one. Hopefully they'll replace the second one too. In the future I'll rather stick with other brands when it comes to storage.

I would buy a 3rd if I needed one, this is a good drive and Mushkin has yet to disappoint me.
I've had a Pilot-E model in the desktop since 2019, many Windows installs and more than a few Distro Hops, still running well. I expect this to be as reliable.

Installed in Wootbook Pro III, as second M.2 drive, worked as expected.
Compared to some other brands, the read/write speeds and IOPS are in the lead, as well as reasonable MTBF.

The drive performs well enough for its price.
Of course this is not a premium drive so don’t expect that kind of performance.
I pushed it quite hard with over 500gb of game downloads directly one after the other and it did get fairly hot but not bad enough to raise concerns.
I also stress tested its performance with rapid accessing and it faltered a bit there which I kind of expected.
Again, for its price its good enough so far. Whether it will last as long as its listed rating I cannot attest to at this moment.

Cannot give it 5 stars as I have not been using it for long. Overall so far, quality is good, temps are good. Fast and so far reliable. Never used Mushkin products before but have been hearing good things about it, so I can recommend it definitely.

I would recommend this product to anyone who needs a reliable SSD. Very happy with it. Temperature, without heat sink, runs around 41~44 degrees Celsius in a well ventilated case, acceptable.

Bought this device with some trepidation, manufacturer unknown to me, online reviews of the product average. Glad to say my programs and data had survived multiple power failures ESKOM induced and other, and this while I was intensively using the PC. Never had any integrity loss anywhere, boots up normal every time. I have been using the product with daily backups, nice to return to monthly backups. I trust this disk now.

This M.2 is great and very affordable, highly recommended.
Has amazing read and write speeds

Bought 2 Mushkin 1TB NVME's Even without heatsinks these drives stay relatively cool with enough airflow. Heatsink from Asrock Z590 keeps it quite cool, really impressed with my builds. everythin was build and switched on working the first time, No Issues

My first M.2, did not realise what a difference it makes. Blows my SATA SSD out of the water, boot times feel instant. Perfect for a large steam library

Is extremely fast, not much of a looker but you get what you pay for. Front sticker may be upside down depending on motherboard , something to keep in mind if you care about aesthetics.

Ran a bit hot on the bench marking, but got the following stats:
2400MB/s sequential read
1600MB/s sequential write
IOPS Read: 180k
IOPS Write: 230k
Idle temp around 35 degrees Celsius.

No complaints. Great product can recommend.

Already have one of these in my desktop and it works as well as one would expect :D
No issues with it in the couple of months I've had my desktop. Works with Linux (no surprise, drives and especially SSD drives should just work).

hdparm output => cached reads = 14155.18 MB/sec, buffered disk reads: 941.16 MB/sec

was bit skeptical buying this make.
but works as expected. only got it to loads Ark Survival Evolved on, loads in, in 5min with 17 mods

Absolutely amazing can't even compare to normal ssd.

So far only been using the M2 chip for a week in laptop but there was no problems with getting product from Wootware.The deliver was quick and follow up I have no problem with. I am a happy customer

..but after loading Warzone and Battlefield 4 on it, my life has changed.

No more going to down to make coffee and read the Huisgenoot while my game loads in (stored on a mechanical drive previously).

So far, it's solid and I have no complaints / regrets.

Thank you guys for the good and fast service.
Fast reply's and friendly staff
1 day Delivery really impressed with you guys.
Highly Recommend
Can not go wrong with buying from WootWare

Great product for the price, very happy with the product and service delivered by Wootware

Working great as an external drive for my machine and running OS off it via USB 3. Have not noticed lag, in fact seems faster than my internal spindle drive

Great performance and capacity for the price. Very happy with product and service!

This nvme ssd is much faster than a conventional ssd even though there is no dedicated DRAM. Given the price, unbeatable value! So far game loading times have not been an issue and even on par with my more expensive nvme ssd.

So far, so good. The performance of this drive is generally as specified and my laptop starts up at lightning speed in comparison with my previous SSD. Although not the fastest on the market, this is great value for money.

I recently purchased a SSD hard drivew ith my Wootbook, and I am very happy with it. The drive is really quick, and the size is perfect for me. Plus the price was great

Advise you check the reviews on Amazon, this is very unreliable. Waste of money imo.

I have been using an NMVE for some time and love how fast it is, but it was a sata variation. I recently grabbed one of these PCI-E versions, and wow, 2-3X faster than my regular NMVE ssd!! Stoked!

The best low-cost storage you can get for those laptops/SFF desktops where you only have a M.2 slot open.
If you are simply looking to "archive" data to a drive then this is perfect, and you get some good performance from the flash chips (until they start reaching capacity!)

I would like to compare this drive to the 1TB Mushkin Pilot which is also available at wootware (MKNSSDPL1TB-D8)

In comparison this Helix drive is using the cheaper SM2263XT controller which does not use a DRAM cache on the SSD but will use SLC write emulation to give good performance if there is capacity open on the drive. (still faster than SATA SSDs!)

The other, Pilot drive includes 2Gb of DRAM cache, improving response times on writing data, but also using more power and making more heat, rather put this in a laptop with good ventilation.

Ideally you cant' go wrong with either of the two drives, but I would spend the extra few hundred rand on getting the Pilot drive for most gaming systems, and would recommend the Helix drive for low power office notebooks or anything needing "cold" storage.