SAMSUNG 980 PRO SSD 2TB PCIe NVMe Gen 4 Gaming M.2 Internal Solid State Drive Memory Card + 2mo Adobe CC Photography, Maximum Speed, Thermal Control (MZ-V8P2T0B)

I may have made a mistake in ordering with a heat sink - but I am a bit of a fan of Samsung SSDs. This drive was easy to install, cloned perfectly with the Samsung Magician and took the place of my 1TB SSD (now the D: drive) Still a fan of Samsung tech.

My PC has an old Asus AMD M5A99FX MB (but no onboard M.2 slots). So I bought a “AMPCOM M.2 NVME SSD to PCIe 4.0 Adapter Card” to allow me to put this NVMe in an available PCIe 2.0 x4 slot on the MB. Worked well as any disk should, in Win 11, but was not bootable (not the problem of the SSD or the adapter card) this was an issue with the old BIOS, which did not support booting a NVMe type of drive. The fix is getting an upgraded BIOS (not available on the MB manufacture BIOS updates site). Solution - I bought a “ BIOS patched for NVMe booting” and problem is solved. Even on my PCIe 2.0 backplane I got a significant bump in performance, see attached pictures, with all related info.

I have had a SSD in my gaming rig for a good long while. When the time came to upgrade I decided to get a M.2 drive and this one popped up. Installation was a breeze and most motherboards support the socket these cards need to take advantage of the increased boot speeds youll get replacing an older mechanical hard drive. I use this primarily as a OS boot drive and have my game installs located on another. Performance is there and I can see the difference verses older technology. Very happy with my purchase.

Holds alot of games and very fast. Very pleased with the purchase.

The heatsink is not needed… The speed is fantastic.

It’s working perfectly on my PS5

Lots if storage space so I dont have to delete previous games. Anyone can install this, be sure you get the one with heat sink.

My pc boots up, logs in and launches games within seconds compared to my old dinosaur of a pc build. SSD in any modern pc is a must.

Item came in pristine condition. More than satisfied with the overall packaging and condition with the item received! I did receive the item late, but that was due to an issue with USPS.

CLONING CAN BE A HICCUP: If you have a computer (typically a laptop) with an NVMe SSD in it already, and you have no other NVMe sockets (no unused sockets), you will need to use an external device to mount this new NVMe SDD. Thats to directly copy the existing operating system and other content from the existing NVMe SSD to the new one, using the Samsung clone utility.