Samsung 500GB 970 EVO Nvme M2 Solid State Drive

Theres not a whole lot I can say about an internal storage device. All of them perform the same basic functions -- storing data. I ended up with two 500GB 970 EVOs when I upgraded my PC to an i9-9900k. I bought the two drives when they were on sale for $120 each (a very short lived sale). Since they were MUCH cheaper than the 1TB EVO 970 (and were actually available at the time without a 7 day shipping delay) I decided to get two and applied some old fashioned Raid 0 on them to create a 1TB volume. Theres not much to say other than going Raid 0 worked, and its faster than any SATA SSD I ever had. I noticed something interesting when I did go Raid 0 with these drives. With just a single drive, I would get a READ: 3500 / WRITE: 1700. However in Raid 0 I am getting READ: 3280 / WRITE: 3430 on average. My read dropped a bit (not that noticeable) and my write nearly doubled (very noticeable). I cant say if these numbers are good or bad since I never did any Raid setups before, but the fact is this setup is working for me and its working really well. These drives look nice, were priced nice, were easy to install, and the performance is excellent. Would recommend at this time.

Ive been using for a long time. I am satisfied. Samsung is the world leader in ssd.

BEST

Gotta bend it down to get the connection, not for new users or new pc enthusiasts, but I very big pc upgrade with loading screens and opening browsers in seconds.

Easy to install Easy to operate Yet fragile

I installed this as the primary boot drive on a new gaming rig. Performance is excellent. No complaints whatsoever.

Wicked fast read write speeds. My new build boots in seconds. Fairly expensive, but thats what you get when you buy top of the line. For the same price you can get 1TB of a slightly older model. It was annoying that delivery got delayed multiple times, but global pandemics tend to slow things down.

Its a great drive for installing a boot drive and applications to make Windows load very fast and feel a lot snappier. I would highly recommend it.

Easy to install and my MacBook Pro 15 Late 2013 is blazing fast with double the original storage for half the price apple wanted. Highly recommended.

True transfer speeds of 3500 read and 2500 write is where these NVME test at System Amd Ryzen-7 3700x X470 Asrock Taichi MB 32 gigs of Corsair Dominator memory