The best bang for buck NVMe SSD you can get. Much cheaper than other competitors like the 970 Evo or WD Black, very very similar performance but miles ahead of every other SSD with it's insane 1700TB endurance. Going to be keeping this one forever.

Best bang for buck at the moment in my opinion. It's slight costlier than Intel's new 660p series which offers similar capacity but doing QLC which makes it a lot slower than the competition.

Newegg came out with a promo for the 1TB/960GB version for $149 back in the day. It seems that standard price now. Lightning fast. 3400MB/s read, 3000MB/s write it is, with equally as impressive IOPS ratings. Bought new.

As fast as advertised. Works with Intel Virtual RAID on CPU (VROC). Four of these in VROC RAID0 with an Asus HYPER M.2 card, in a PCI-e 16x slot with bifurcation enabled, gets me to around 12.5GB/s sequential read and 11.9GB/s write on CrystalDiskMark's Q64T64 test.

Amazing drive. Brilliant access speeds for the price. At the moment, I'm 16 seconds from power on to Windows desktop.

Corsair dropped the prices on their MP510 SSDs quite a bit. Probably getting ready for a new series, but really... performance-wise do you need better than this? It's about as fast as 970 Pro, but at nearly half the cost. 1TB of ridiculousness speed for $149 at time of purchase.

While not as fast as some Samsung NVME's it is still remarkably fast, obviously silent, and a price to performance champion, with me also being kind of a Corsair fanboy it was a no brainer

Phison is one of the most successful SSD controller designers that sells controllers on the open market. The Phison E12 is its latest flagship NVMe controller intended for high-end consumer SSDs and enterprise SSDs. Corsair MP510 is powered by the Phison E12 design.

Corsair seems like a common theme for this build, and there's a good reason for that. The MP510 is a prime example. Blazing fast read/writes speeds, which is extrapolated by the fact of my friend coming from an old HDD on his laptop. One of the best TBW on the market, and gives Samsung drives a run for their money. Windows cold boots in about 8 secs flat. Bravo.

Solid SSD. Bood/load times are really, really short (~3-5 seconds)