Even though this SSD doesn't have a DRAM cache, its still faster than your average mechanical hard drive. Since it's a NVMe PCIe SSD it's even faster than most other m.2 SSD's.

Pro's:
- Calculated that the boot time into Windows 10 is from 6 to 10 seconds
- Affordable
- PCIe = Better performance
- NVMe = Also Better performance

Cons:
From my side it's a great ssd, I really can't complain

Wootware from my side you get a 10/10, I will continue to recommend you to friends and family, Woot Woot!!

Ssd works 100% am happy. It arrived in less than 4 days Woot! Woot! ????????

Great performance for the price. Runs at specified speeds.

Drive performs at specified speeds. Solid entry level M2. Only concern is that the drive runs at 78 degrees Celsius (10 degrees more than CPU and graphics card) under load and 8 degrees above specified operating temperature range.

Never heard of or used Mushkin before, and they seem to be more of an "office" brand. That being said, despite this drive not having a DRAM chip, it is still much faster than a SATA SSD, and unless you're doing incredibly storage taxing tasks (millions of read-writes per hour), this drive will serve well as a boot drive and even storage for games where loading times are important, like CS:GO.

Great service and great product.
Had to ship it all the way from Cape Town to Pretoria, but at a better (lower, including shipping) price than other local suppliers.
Thanks Wootware, I'll most likely use you again in future.

If you've never had an SSD before, then this is absolutely unbelievably fast. After successfully migrating my OS I did have to update my BIOS and then it worked perfectly. Beware that some motherboards do reserve SATA slots for the M.2 so you may have to disconnect SATA 1 - bit of a strange thing. Don't worry about people saying that NVMe shouldn't be used for an OS, they're being pedantic.

Super fast and the best value for money you can buy.

This inexpensive ssd reduce my laptops boot time from 30 seconds to 11 seconds. Laptop is super fast and responsive. Woodwares service is outstanding, they delivered within two days and their response time to inquiries was quick and helpful.

This is my first time using an M.2 and the performance is amazing! Windows boots within seconds. Overall performace is great thus far!! Then lastly as always, great service from Wootware!!!!!!!!

The last time I installed Windows 10 pro from a bootable USB drive, the install took roughly 15-20 minutes (much longer with mechanical drive)
This superb value for money unit handled the same task in under 5 minutes.

Normally I choose Samsung SSD’s. But the Mushkin price, the other reviews, and the oldish machine it’s for coupled with the warranty made me go for it. I had no issues installing. It’s been in the machine a few days now - user performance very good. Hoping it delivers in the long run.

Overall fast performance and was easily detected by the Mobo.

This SSD provides amazing performance, especially for its price. It gets very close to it's advertised speeds and Windows boots so fast that it doesn't even display the "Welcome" screen for me. I would definitely get this instead of an old SATA SSD if your motherboard supports PCIe NVMe M.2 SSDs.

Not familiar with brand, but looks to be good quality. Excellent, speedy service from Wootware! Only reason not 5 stars is that I have not used it much.

This item was a really good investment as it really boosted my pcs performance. Now I can use my computer in such a way that I don't need to worry about it being too slow or crashing. Awesome item

I've used Mushkin SSD's before, and so far I've had a pretty good success rate with them.
They're also quite snappy and worth their price. Used in a blade 14" 2016 to replace the stock samsung 650 pro and the speed is not that far off, with a much more appealing price. I now own 3 Mushkin NVMe's and so far, I cannot complain about any of them.

For the price, this is great value for money. Installation is straight-forward and had it up and running with a fresh installation of Windows in 15-20 min. The difference from my old HDD is night-and-day. Hope it lasts.

Mushkin MKNSSDHL250GB-D8 Helix-L 250GB M.2 (2280) PCIe NVMe is an excelent M.2 Solid State Drive for the price. I absolutely love using Wootware to buy all my PC components and will continue to buy all my parts by them.

Running two of these in my wootware ultabook 2. Seems very fast, pc turns on instantly. Still working fine when storage almost full as well, low temps are also nice. Overall solid product and great value for money ????

I only bought this one to cover against the original 500GB mushkin that went down 3 months after I bought it from Wootware.
I'm sure you will be getting this one back soon too.

Very happy with my purchase but more so with Wootware's service, received my items 2 days earlier than expected. Excellent. GGWP

This SSD made my laptop about 10x faster i bought a brand new gaming laptop and i was so disappointed at how slow and laggy it was so i decided to buy this Nvme and WOW boots up in 5 seconds

If you want better performance then a SSD and you are budget limited, get this drive.
Got the following speeds in Win10 using CrystalDiskMark 7.0

Read:
SEQ1M Q8 - 1915
SEQ1M Q1 - 1855
RND4K Q32 - 813
RND4K Q1 - 62

Write:
SEQ1M Q8 - 1227
SEQ1M Q1 - 1062
RND4K Q32 - 616
RND4K Q1 - 223

Not much to say. Very convenient price point and better performance than other SATA sdds within the same price range. This is a simple yet very effective upgrade to an older system. If you are considering and ssd, and are unsure, just do it. Installation was quick and very easy. Ordered, came nice and early the very next day. Excellent service.