Bought this SSD back in March to improve load times for my games. It's been about 9 months since then and I can say that this thing is fast and flawless. And now that it's costs about 1,350 (when I bought it, it was 1,775), I would very much recommend this as an affordable SSD option for laptops.
Although this problem is present in pretty much any storage device, for a drive this size, it sucks that I can only use 465GB. That's a significant amount taken from the promoted storage size since it's about the size that a single game released around the past 5 years would fill up.
Still, I wouldn't dock points for this as the performance is still there and I am not in desperate need of storage at this point. Would still recommend if your laptop/PC has an extra M.2 slot lying around.