Samsung 960 EVO Series - 250GB PCIe NVMe - M.2 Internal SSD (MZ-V6E250BW)

The IO speed is amazing in WIn 10 pro

Much faster than my SATA SSD! When configuring my ASUS ROG BIOS it can only work in SATA mode, not M.2. I learned that the hard way after much trial and error. It is faster than SATA despite the setting NOT being M.2.

This NVMe drive is super fast and plenty large enough when combined with a standard SSD or mechanical HDD. Ill be honest though, the average computer user wont notice any difference between this NVMe drive and a SSD for a boot drive. So unless you edit/create large media or data files id recommend you save the money and buy a SSD. But if youre the advanced user looking for a good performing NVMe drive, look no further (although I believe Samsung has released the new 970 EVO and PRO versions)

I went from a Intel DC S3500 Series SSDSC2BB300G401 300GB 2.5 to this EVO 250gb. It has cut my boot time by around 30%. From hitting the power button, to Windows 10 Home being fully loaded and ready to use is around 16 seconds. A good chunk of that is BIOS loading. That said, I also did quite a bit of services maintenance and other miscellaneous crap to shave a couple of seconds as well. Unbelievable performance to say the least. Im running the CYBERPOWERPC Gamer Xtreme VR GXiVR8080A2 purchased a few months ago. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075VSBNQZ/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Thing is fast. Loading times in games compared to an ssd isnt very noticable as comparing a hdd to ssd

Awesome. I was running my OS on an 256GB 840 EVO before this and it is definitely faster. I only had one issue after installing windows 10 on it the first time. I left my 840 EVO plugged in when I installed the OS so it didnt install a boot manager on this drive. The next day when I took the 840 out to put it in my laptop my desktop wouldnt boot to 10 on the new 960 EVO drive. I had this this before so I just threw the 840 in my laptop, reinstalled 10 on my desktop on the 960, then installed 10 and Linux mint on my laptop. I do get pretty low transfer speeds to and from internal my RAID 5 composed of 5 WD RE3 1TB drives running on an old LSI 8888-ELP RAID card. Like 180 MB/s max, but the RAID has been slower on this Z170 board than it was on my P8Z68 board. The RAIDs not degraded and its still fast enough so I havent bothered trying to figure out why. I dont think those transfer speeds are a result of the 960 EVO so its been working great. CrystalDiskMark and samsung magician numbers in attached photos. Asus Z170 Sabertooth i7-6700K with H110 cooler 16GB of DDR4 3000 5 x WD RE3 1TB in RAID 5 on LSI 8888-ELP

The SSD has fast transfer rates and has been reliable so far. It gives your computer much better performance than a tradition spinning disk drive.

Cant beat Samsung M.2 SSD

Its as fast as you could possibly want, windows 10 loads in 10 seconds from the time I push the button to turn on my laptop.

Super fast!. Love it! Using it as my main boot drive and application installation location. If you get one, I recommend to perform a clean, new Windows installation. Works great with a new motherboard which has a slot specific for it. Make sure your Windows software is in a thumb drive for motherboard recognition and easy, fast installation.