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Heatsink Included
Customers are highly satisfied with the included heatsink in the Verbatim 1TB SSD, which helps keep the drive cool during high performance tasks and is a nice addition for those building PCs or using the drive for gaming or video storage. Some customers have noted that the drive has good compatibility and comes at an affordable price.
Storage Value
Customers are highly satisfied with the storage value of the Verbatim SSD, praising its high performance and competitive pricing for a large capacity drive. Some have noted a lower TBW rating compared to similar drives but consider it a minor issue for most daily use cases.

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Quality
The good news is this drive is solid in every performance metric.
A well regarded controller and having a cache is good.
No adhesive is used, only thermal pads.
For reference, after 6 months of use, my main system drive has 14 tbw (so 1% of it's total rating) in about 5000 hours of use t... Read More
Price
Got this ssd for an amazing price.
Well worth the price, even at the standard price point.
I purchased this on sale for $179.
But what it is is high performance ssd priced very well with a ton of storage and priced well (at least when i purchased it).
Competitiveness
- storage value - it's worth questioning when a drive is more than 20% cheaper than similar competition.
There are faster, but it's still twice as fast as gen 3, and the faster drives are within 10% of these speeds, and mostly not n... Read More
This was priced better than a lot of drives with similar specs, and after doing some research, the only red flag on this drive ... Read More
For comparison, i have a similarly rated and well reviewed 2 tb gen 4 ssd as my system drive.
Overview
- How are reviewers describing this item?
overall, great, low and similar. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
- Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 233 reviews as of our last analysis date on Feb 4 2025.
Helpful InsightsBETA
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Given i was going to be recording and editing videos i wanted a high speed drive
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Also games are starting to use directstorage and the discount to drop down to half the speed gen 3 drives is not enough to really consider unless i was looking at a 3rd drive for store and forget stuff
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Knowing my use case this was not a major risk for me
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Of note its a innogrit ig5236 ssd controller with a dram cache
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Also of note im aware this is slower than gen 5 drives but gen 5 drives are super expensive and if you dont have a gen 5 slot or are doing constant data transfers that will actually hit the speeds regularly theres little performance gains once you get near the max of gen 4 speeds for most daily use cases
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Pros full gen 4 pcie speeds up to 7000mbs read up to 6400mbs write as advertised
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
There are faster but its still twice as fast as gen 3 and the faster drives are within 10 of these speeds and mostly not noticeable for 95 of all users
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