Samsung 1TB Samsung 970 EVO M.

I bought this to upgrade my other Samsung M.2 SSD to give myself a bit of extra storage space and room. Wow, this the 970 EVO is worth every penny! Impressed at the 5 year warranty too. I've recommended this to all my friends and will be buying the new models in the coming years.

Like the other reviews, I'll verify this module is crazy fast. On install the bios detected it, windows 10 did not have the appropriate temporary drivers though, and kept blue-screening, even in safe mode, initially. After some persistence, Windows conceded and allowed me to log in with an unknown device. After downloading the drivers from samsung and rebooting, all was well. The samsung cloning tool worked great, though it did not clone the 2nd hidden recovery partition in "automatic" mode.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I was curious how much faster an NVMe M.2 drive was compared to an SSD so I installed the 970 EVO 250GB NVMe in my Windows 10 Pro PC. It turned out to be twice as fast as my 860 EVO 250GB SSD. To be honest though, the SSD could boot up in under 30 seconds and the NVMe in under 15, so both times were very fast. The nice thing about an NVMe drive is that it is installed directly onto the motherboard so you don't have to bother with a SATA cable or a power cable and it makes the airflow in your PC's case that much better. I love it. Let's see how long it lasts.

I purchased this for my home lab and ESXi server. I have 1 particular VM that loads and runs very slowly due to disk bottle neck. No more! Installed it using an expansion board as my MB didn't have M.2 so using PCIe x4 slot. BIOS didn't see it but Windows 10 and more importantly VSphere 6.5 found it no problems. My VM now boots to login in 8-9 sec!

Purchased this with a new motherboard. Installation was very simple. Installed Windows 10 from a USB 3.0 stick in a few minutes. During the configuration of Windows and the installation of the drivers from the motherboard application, I didn't even realize my computer was rebooting. I thought it was just the screen flickering. The reboot took 4 seconds!!!!!! Anyway, pretty awesome to have this running. I tested the speed using the Samsung Magician software and my read clocked higher than the MAX read of 3,400 MB/s and the Write was at the advertised MAX. Very pleased

Before, my HDD didn't use to follow my rhythm too well. Now, I am the one who can't follow my SSD rhythm! It's incredible. Since the moment you press the "Power On" button, you blink and there it is, the desktop waiting for you to log-in. When you log-in, you have all your programs loaded, prepared to be used. It's almost 6 times faster than normal Sata SSD's, which is amazing. Another good thing, is that this SSD's are the best in power consumption. In a laptop, it improves your battery duration time, because of the low consumption. Also (as any other SSD) it let's you move your laptop without fear to damage your drive.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] The Samsung 970 EVO Plus 250 GB has been an interesting review. I have been using the little drive as a super fast USB-C portable drive. This V-NAND Drive really is the ultimate performance champ. The physical drive Design is no larger than a stick of gum, yet has an amazing speed and storage capacity. Since it is a solid state memory storage with no moving parts, the durability is also very high. The enclosure I used is an aluminum enclosure I can hide my pocket or bad. The enclosure I am using allows me to use this drive on both OSX and Windows. I have not had any errors or slowdowns with this drive and it has performed stable and trouble free. I use is mostly to transfer large video files for editing and works flawlessly. The Samsung Magician software was helpful in getting my firmware updated and allows me to see my other internal SSD drives on my computer at the same time. I have only used about half of the 256GB of the drive yet it has shown no slowdowns or delays. Although the drive can achieve sequential read/write speeds up to 3,500/3,300 MB/s, my USB-C portable system has only allowed me to get slightly over 1100MB/s. This is not the drives fault, it is the way I am using the drive. Overall I love this drive for the small size and slim slender profile. I would highly recommend it.

I've purchased TWO of these units for a new build for a computer that is using Windows 7. ( I refuse to let go with a perfectly fine and stable OS...) The problem that I have been having for the past week, is that I am unable to get the SSD drivers to be loaded onto the stick before I can do a clean Windows install. It would be super helpful if Samsung could include a self-executable to preload the drivers so the Windows install would go flawless. I have been trying multiple methods to get this installed, and am STILL stumped ! At this rate, Samsung will come out with a new version, and I will STILL have not gotten this drive installed !

Bought this for my son's PC - however as soon as he had re-installed Steam and tried play Rust from the new drive he found the performance of the graphics severly detrimental. GPU constantly around 100% - I read that nvme shares lanes with the gpu but not sure if this is the issue. Certainly something to consider for anyone looking to purchase!

Hi, I bought the 970 EVO 512 GB to substitute my Sandisk 120 GB SSD PCIe that originally came with my ASUS ROG GL503 VM. As it has only one PCIe slot I have tried to clone the original Sandisk SSD and literally spent 2 days trying different ways. The main issue seemed to be the Type M slot that the 970 EVO uses which is fairly new and an external USB enclosure was not readily available. I managed to do a partially installation but many shortcuts seemed to be missing and Office was acting up. Eventually I found a Type M enclosure that actually said it was compatible with the 970 EVO so I ordered it, received it in the UK after a couple of weeks and it seems to be working fine... as a very expensive USB pen drive. The problem now is that the USB enclosure (branded "Rongdeson") seems to "fake" the physical sector to be 4Kbp physical sector, which seems to be wrong but I haven't managed to find the spec for this yet. The Sandisk appears to be 512 bp physical sector so no cloning app has allowed the cloning. I will persist but meanwhile can't give any stars or recommend the product yet! I would appreciate any help on this if possible. Best Marcelo