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)

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everybody has the fastest NVME. Yeah...well THIS bad boy moves data like crazy....Copying 600gb and it never dropped below 500mb a second. What would normally take so long you go eat breakfast and come back to see how far its gone....this was done in 5 minutes!!! I for sure would buy this again!!!!

The heatsink is not needed… The speed is fantastic.

Super shock on the amount of storage it offer. Alot of SSD state their a certain capacity and they do have that storage but normally the SSD has certain things within it that drop the capacity but a very little bit but this offers a complete 1TB.

Easy installation, plug and play.

For DL data sets. MSI Z690-P board came with standoffs and screws for M.2 sockets, the 980 had none, just the SSD with heatsink. I plugged it in, secured it with the screw, booted the system (Win 11), initialized the SSD, added a volume, and was done. Winsat showed 3716 MB/s random read, 7143 MB/s sequential read, 2306 MB/s sequential write, about 10 times faster than my older Crucial SATA SSD. Im very satisfied. Heatsink made sense, based on previous experience with a Mac SSD; there are inexpensive 3rd party heat sinks, but I opted for the Samsung built-in one.

Ordered to replace failing SCSI SAS drive, didnt use it for that as teh expansion car was not seen. but used in other drive options and work great as most samsung items I purchase from any were, price was the moderate for this item.

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.

This SSD is running as my main storage drive which is running windows and after 5 months and more than 40% full, I decided to do another speed test and it still runs fast. I put a photo up of the speeds I get with it. Im satisfied with this SSD.

This SSD is super fast, very reliable, and easy to install. I would recommend this drive to anyone looking to upgrade their system, no matter what you use your computer for it is a perfect drive for many different applications.

Ive been using Samsung drives in my main build for 6+ years now and never had a failure. This drive should be no different. I downloaded Samsung magician and made sure it shipped with the latest firmware. Runs a little warm under my motherboard heat spreader, but that seems normal for gen 4 drives without active cooling.