This is a competitively priced solid-state disk from Microcenter (product link).
The box states "Read Speed up to 550MB/s" and "Write Speed up to 490MB/s". The test below was run on a newly formatted drive, but reflects the advertised numbers. The drive uses 3D TLC NAND and has a DRAM cache.
----------------------------------------------------------------------- CrystalDiskMark 6.0.1 x64 (C) 2007-2018 hiyohiyo Crystal Dew World : https://crystalmark.info/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s] * KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 561.946 MB/s Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 515.261 MB/s Random Read 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 368.822 MB/s [ 90044.4 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 330.271 MB/s [ 80632.6 IOPS] Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 364.705 MB/s [ 89039.3 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 322.696 MB/s [ 78783.2 IOPS] Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 29.535 MB/s [ 7210.7 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 69.388 MB/s [ 16940.4 IOPS] Test : 1024 MiB [G: 0.0% (0.1/447.0 GiB)] (x5) [Interval=5 sec] Date : 2018/06/30 9:17:01 OS : Windows 7 Professional SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)
Not bad for a "budget" SSD!