Samsung 960 EVO Series - 250GB PCIe NVMe - M.2 Internal SSD (MZ-V6E250BW)

Installed on a 2017 Razer Blade, works like a charm. Very fast drive.

Less throttle than the 950 but had trouble installing the NVME drivers for my Asus Rog G752VL laptop,currently running windows 10 pro other than its fast

One 250GB 960 EVO would have been (barely) enough for me; needed for Win OS, a few apps, etc. Went with two that are in RAID 0 and as a set, theyre easily meeting and exceeding performance expectations. On my ASUS Z270 with its two M.2 slots, the stripped set easily matches and in almost all areas, exceeds the performance of a 960 EVO Pro (in a single drive configuration). Yeah, its RAID 0 and with all caveats that go along with that, it makes for a sweet setup on the right chipset. Even as a single SSD, the EVO performs quite well.

This review is for the Samsung 960 Evo 1TB model Works great! I used the free version of Macromedia Reflect to clone my boot drive - you can create a live USB which allows you to copy your entire boot drive over. Speeds seem to be as advertised. About 4-6x faster than my 840 Evo it replaced. These tests were run while the drive was being used as the main OS drive - so windows may have been using a few %. Keep in mind that the X99 chipset with 6800K CPU has 28 lanes PCIe avaiable. So the SSD has a full 4 lanes all to itself.. Many other popular CPUs like the intel 6700k only have 16 lanes PCIe lanes total. So if youre running at 16x graphics card which most gaming cards are you are then sharing PCIe lanes with the graphics card. Without any direct airflow the temps were up to 60C while running a benchmark. From other reviews online this seems like the expected temp. I prefer things to run as cool as possible so have setup a low speed fan to give it a little extra airflow. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CrystalDiskMark 5.2.0 x64 (C) 2007-2016 hiyohiyo Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s] * KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 3284.482 MB/s Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 1872.129 MB/s Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 565.858 MB/s [138148.9 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 460.015 MB/s [112308.3 IOPS] Sequential Read (T= 1) : 2037.224 MB/s Sequential Write (T= 1) : 1782.619 MB/s Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 45.915 MB/s [ 11209.7 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 220.752 MB/s [ 53894.5 IOPS] Test : 1024 MiB [C: 22.6% (208.0/920.0 GiB)] (x1) [Interval=5 sec] Date : 2016/12/20 2:12:55 OS : Windows 10 Professional [10.0 Build 14393] (x64)

Its worked perfect so far! Lightening fast!

Lightening quick fast. To give you an idea, imagine being able to boot Windows 10 in under 10 seconds. Need I say more?

Easy enough to install and works well. You wont really notice the speed boost unless you are doing some specific applications. Id recommend it just because of the size and cost its great to have as a boot drive. For larger storage, more value, or a gaming computer..... just stick with a regular SATA SSD. I still recommend to buy Samsung though.

If youre buying this drive for the SED feature, dont bother. Its a mess. You probably wont have much luck encrypting it with a third party software either, because it will conflict with its design. But if you just want a fast M.2 drive for a good price, go for it. Its a reliable and extremely fast SSD for a reasonable price. The encryption feature though, yeah, its a joke at best - and if youre thinking well Ill just read the instructions, Ill have to stop you right there, because there arent any.

Super easy to install, and a huge upgrade. Cloned my boot drive using Samsungs software, and this beauty significantly cut down on my boot time. Picked it up on prime day for a steal. My only regret is that I didnt buy two.

So much speed. Having gone from an eide 7200rpm drive to this, I didnt know it was possible for windows to boot in seconds.