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

Ordered this to install in my PS5 for added storage — it fits but upon installation, I turned on my console and received a message that it wasn’t compatible and had to be removed; my PS5 wouldn’t fully boot up with it attached in the expansion slot, which is under a small plate below the main PS5 cover.

Easy install, work without problems, really fast

Good product

Storage capacity at 500Gi is a little disappointing vs. 512Gi. Others than that, its a great drive with excellent 3500Mbps read at a fair price.

I love Samsung SSD products. My only criticism is a better way to clone drives. I bought a device from amazon, it did clone just fine but making the drives bootable is the problem. Samsung has magician software that I have successfully gotten to work a number of times, without boot problems, the only issue with that is that it only works with a Samsung Product.

This was my first time upgrading and installing an M.2 drive. It’s an incredible drive for an incredible price. Did about a days worth of research, found 3 or 4 that I liked, and landed on this one. Glad I did. Everyone knows the EVO lineup has always been good and a contender, this one doesn’t disappoint. I went from benchmarking about 300-400mbps r/w speeds to a whopping 3350 read and around 2600 mbps write speeds. Loading screens cut in half or better, 4K textures in games load in insanely fast, it’s incredible. I have read that the 250gb version of this SSD has its write speeds limited by a fairly large amount, however. Samsung magician is a neat little app that does work on a lot of non Samsung drives, and it allows to benchmark and compare your drives. As well as doing a little optimization for them. The drive itself is super easy to install, and most motherboards nowadays don’t require you to mess with any settings in your bios to allow the drive to work. If you find yourself booting up windows after installing the drive and you don’t see it in your drive list, don’t fret. Windows won’t recognize your new spiffy drive until you format it, which can be done easily through searching “partition” in your search bar, click “create and format hard disk partitions”, if you’ve just installed a new drive, the following screen will prompt you about your new drive. Right click the box that has your SSD size and says “unallocated” and choose new simple volume, leave the next screen with max and simple volume the same amount(you shouldn’t have to change anything) then next screen choose a new drive letter, you can choose any that are available, next page file type should be NTFS by default, default allocation size, and check perform quick format. You can change the “new volume” to anything you want, as that will be the name of your new drive. Hit next, finish, and boom your new drive will now show up in your file explorer and you can start installing! If you’re looking for an upgrade from a older SSD, and your motherboard has a slot for an M.2 NVMe drive, this is a no brained. It’s also almost as easy to install as a stick of ram, aside from having to lock in with a screw. Oh, yeah so this product doesn’t come with any screws or standoffs to be able to lock it in. You can buy a basic generic “M.2 SSD screw installation kit” for $5 -$6. Comes with like 4 screws, 4 stand-offs, and a tiny little screw driver made just for this. So please don’t forget to pick one up if you don’t have any, cause it’s a sad feeling when you crack open your case and insert the drive only to realize you gotta wait for another delivery or go drive somewhere to find one.

Excellent speed for pcie3.0 on my Acer Predator G5 Laptop.

System that test was ran on contained: intel i5 7600 3.5 ghz ,16 gb ram ,1070 graphics card . also ran on fresh install of windows .

bruh

The numbers dont lie! I put this in an Acasis TBU405 USB4/Thunderbolt enclosure, connected to my Mac Mini M1 2020. Formatted drive to APFS, ran Blackmagic Speed Test. Read and Write performance nearly equals the computers internal SSD drive.