Internal SSD, 128GB SATA Solid State Drive, M.2 2280 B+M Key, Model CVB-8D128, OEM Package CVB-8D128-HP

Value for price... arrived in typical amazon overkill bubble-pack, in good shape. These are 'take-outs'... SO expect a previous instance of Windows and all it's other/required partitions to exist on it. [I.e. - boot your machine to GNU/Linux and use Gparted to 'wipe' all the contents: create a new GPT... then create (a) partition(s) needed for your purposes. If a partition then needs to be changed to a specific GUID-type, Gnome Disks has that ability.]

The product arrived quickly from Amazon vendor. I installed it into a damaged computer from a virus and reinstalled windows on my device and it works great.

I am booting a Toshiba Satellite C55-A6. That was bought with Windows 8 on it to give an idea of age. With a 2.5 SATA to M.2 adaptor and swapping the DVD-RW for a 2.5 SATA drive caddy to put the original HDD into. This drive as really woke up this old laptop to being a great netbook. Not the fastest writer but just fine on reads making for a good boot drive. For less than twenty dollars you can't beat it.

Drives are USED and not new, the two I received each had several hours and several TERABYTES (yes, THOUSANDs of GB) of their lifespan already consumed - according to the SMART data readable on the drive. Seem like decent drives for the money *IF* actually new, or perhaps if at least their condition were disclosed and accurate.

The media could not be loaded. I tend to stay away from super cheap SSDs of any type, but as this (upgrading an HP Thin Client) was a fun project and not serious if it died, I took a chance on this one. Worked flawlessly.One thing: It did NOT come with the mounting screw for the M.2 slot. You will need one of your own.

So Truenas requires a full drive for its boot. I had a 500 GB NVME drive as my boot initially, but the boot drive only used like 3GB. Searching around, the current recommendation for USB drives are external SSD's. I found on Amazon a Startech dual SSD USB enclosure. That enclosure requires certain type of SATA SSD's and this drive met that requirement. Finding small SSD type drives are getting more difficult and this fits that use case of not wasting a ton of space / money for a boot drive.

impressive

Using in my raspberry pi. Could not get it to initialize in windows. Used Ubuntu to format and initalize as windows was not happy, and to my surprise it has someone's windows install on it. The drive keeps throwing errors.