SAMSUNG 970 EVO Plus SSD 1TB NVMe M.2 Internal Solid State Hard Drive, V-NAND Technology, Storage and Memory Expansion for Gaming, Graphics w/ Heat Control, Max Speed, MZ-V7S1T0B/AM

Amazing speed. Worth every penny.

Install was simple once I managed to loosen the m2 screw on my laptops empty NVMe bay. Faster than the stock WD Black 730. Lots of space for my games now, moved my steam library over to this drive and load times are definitely faster now that background processes from windows and such arent running off the same drive as my steam folder.

I installed this in a Dell Inspiron 17 5770 laptop, which on one of the other pages that offers compatibility is not listed. Not Samsung’s issue, but it did take a bit of finesse to get the laptop to boot from the PCIe. It defaulted to that in the boot order in the bios immediately on installation, but it still kept booting from my 2 TB drive that I left in for storage. I had to disable the SATA drive in the bios. After a single boot from the new SSD, I was able to re-enable my SATA 2 TB drive and had them both up and running. On an 8th gen I7 I was up and running with Windows being responsive in about 9 seconds on a cold boot including biometric login. It took somewhere around 15-20 seconds for everything to be completely up and running. I stopped paying attention when I could function doing what I wanted to do in 9 seconds...

Drive was installed with new PC build, and the machine would not boot properly. GPU was not recognized due to faulty drive. Replaced the M.2 and everything worked perfectly fine. Did receive a speedy refund from Amazon once the failure was recognized, but a weeks worth of troubleshooting headache. Im more wary of buying electronics online now, easier to spend the 2% more at Micro Center knowing they will work when brought home functional.

NVMe SSDs are the future. I was previously using a Western Digital mechanical disk drive when I built my PC in 2016, Eventually I got sick of the sluggish speeds and upgraded to this bad boy. Accessing applications and startup is nothing short of lighting fast. However, I ran into a very frustrating problem (that took hours to find on the internet) in which upon installation of the SSD, I didnt realize that it disabled one of my motherboards SATA ports making my main OS drive unreadable to clone into the new SSD. If you run into this problem, dont worry, as long as the SSD appears in the BIOS, just play around with the SATA ports until your main drive can be opened and cloned over to the SSD. Hopefully I saved you some time and hassle.

The reason I give it 4 stars is because a screw was not included with it so I had to dig EVERYWHERE at my home and work place to find a screw that would even remotely fit/be the right size.

Had to plug in another keyboard to get to the BIOS to open but Overall worked just fine at the end of the day All i care about it is works much faster than having a small drive.

Recently acquired a workstation that had an empty M.2 slot, didnt take me long to fill it with this drive. This workstation is now lightening fast, i7, 32GB RAM.

Couldn’t be easier to install and it works perfectly. No more annoying ssds or spinning drives that take up too much space and have clunky sata cables. Games load instantly and the 2tb model has plenty of storage. nothing to really say other than that 5/5 recommend.

Samsung really makes it easy to upgrade when you use their Migration tool. Connect the SSD as an external drive and launch the tool. It clones your old drive t the new one.