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)

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.

Purchased this product for the PS5. Heard about firmware issue. Saw recent youtube by Jayztwocents who showed that if drive is manufactured in Vietnam in Dec 22, then it already has the latest firmware which corrects the issue of corruption-this issue appears to apply to drives manufactured in 21 in Korea. The drive I received from Amazon was manufactured in Vietnam in Dec 2022. I did not bother to check firmware. Very easy to install with second party heatsink. PS5 reported read speed of 6667mps. I have no regrets purchasing this drive.

Practically no load times in games. Just beware of older firmware versions that appear to be reducing drive life. Mine shipped with the latest firmware (5B2QGXA7).

Great product, easy to install and massively sped up my load times on my games. Initially had a problem with it trying to boot from the SSD and not detecting my HDD with my os. Just make sure your boot device in in SATA 1 port. I had my HDD in SATA 6 for cable management reasons and the onboard M.2 comes in the boot sequence after SATA 1.

The heatsink is not needed… The speed is fantastic.

Luckily mine came with the latest firmware, so I didnt have to update it. I slapped it in my PS5, checked the speed, and got on with gaming. Even if you do have to update, the process isnt that hard. There are plenty of YouTube videos that will tell you what to do. But it seems like they are all shipping with the latest firmware now, so thats good. Buy one, or five!

Like most of us, we need more storage space in our PS5. This hard drive does the trick and it was super easy to install. Very pleased with this purchase.

I was tired of having to delete games to be able to update Call of Duty. This SSD allows the flexibility of keeping games on my PS5 and not having to worry about storage at all. I have most of my games moved over to the SSD now and the process was so quick. The install was very easy and the longest part was figuring out how to remove the PS5 cover without breaking it. I am very happy with this purchase and would recommend it to anyone looking to upgrade their PS5 storage.

This is a nice middle ground between the more expensive 990 pro and the slower 970. With twice the read/write speeds of the 970 and being half the cost of the 990 while only being about 90% of the speed is great value. Im going to be using this until PCIE 5 ssds come out and become cheaper.

It was as easy to install as advertised. I was back to gaming and installing games within 5 minutes. Im not great on computers but this was easy because the makers of PS5 made the install user friendly. Great job Samsung and PS5. I do suggest getting a cooling tower it help greatly with heat and saves wear and tear on your equipment for many years of fun. Fit in space easily. Nothing visible from the out side.