Crucial

Corsair for most stuff, i've had a couple of cases, PSUs, RAM, mice, and they've all been solid.

Kingston and Crucial have always been fine for budget memory, too.

I avoid anything made by Belkin like the bloody plague.

Crucial, like many other SSD manufacturers, "updated" this drive with new components. This saved them money, but tanked performance. It performs similar in benchmarks, but in sustained write and read the new p2 is 25% and 45% as fast as the original which was already a low tier budget drive.

Note that Crucial recently introduced a 4 TB version of this drive too. This will likely force down the price of the 2TB version, as we are seeing now. I've been watching the price on this thing lower in the last few weeks. It's actually been at $171 for the last two or three days.

If you don't have enough money, I recommend Crucial products, and if you have enough money, I recommend Samsung SSD pro lineup products.

Going to play devils advocate here but I don't think anyone should be surprised, or at least Crucial should get a little slack as if you look back at reviews from mid-2020, quite a few included this quote from Crucial... "The Crucial P2 SSD currently relies on Micron TLC 3D NAND technology, but over time may include a mix of Micron’s TLC and QLC NAND technologies.". They were upfront about it...was it super visible?

They are slow and less reliable than current gen SSDs. ESPECIALLY if you just want 1TB. You can buy from any reputational brand (Samsung, Western Digital, Micron, Seagate, Corsair, Gigabyte, Crucial and more) for around the same price. No great savings, only worse perf.

I got one of these on a deep discount and I had to return it because of how crap it was, even as a game drive it was atrociously bad. Only managed 65MB/s direct to QLC write speeds on the 1TB version, while under a similar scenario my SN550 does 850MB/s. A large Total War: Three Kingdoms update took almost 10 minutes longer on the QLC P2 1TB than it did on the SN550 (both drives around 80% filled). Pretty disappointing that Crucial is doing a Kingston/ADATA bait and switch, their brand image is going to go down the drain if they pull more stunts like this.

(9/17/2021, 11:50:31 AM): On behalf of Crucial, I want to sincerely apologize for the frustration you experienced while ordering from our website. I’m sorry we let you down. Our ordering and shipment notification systems are not keeping up with current fluctuations in product supply, which has understandably resulted in confusion, disappointment, and even anger in you, our valued customer. (9/17/2021, 11:50:39 AM): We know this message won’t erase your bad experience, but we would like to make amends.

I think a lot of memory manufacturers are having supply issues. RMA'd a four-module DDR3 kit and Crucial sent back 3 modules of one spec and one module of something else with both a different die and different module PCB config. Was a bit strange.

But this is only true for Crucial, mixing with any other vendor is a risk at XMP, and while it is likely to work for DDR4 kits from G.Skill and others, you can bet money on it not working very well with Corsair, who uses the highest number of ICs of any vendor in the industry across their kits (I know of at least 13 in use right now), randomly, and they're not tied to the part number, but rather a version number that is found only on the DIMMs themselves. This means even if you wanted to match versions (which is essential to even stand a chance of combining kits), you have no way of knowing what you'll get, since the part number has no bearing on what IC you'll get (unless it's a guaranteed b-die kit, which is the only known quantity they sell these days). But the rule of thumb is that if it's XMP, it should be bought as a single kit for the best chance of success (since nothing is ever a guarantee).