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

So fast it brings a tear to my eye.

Fast af!

My motherboard didnt have the screw to screw into the little raiser, i found a little screw from a pencil sharpener and a plastic washer lmao

This is a fast M.2 drive, no disclaimers on that front, but note that the plus version gets hotter than it should under load quite easily. Would use an active cooling option if you have more than one directly connected to your motherboard. I ended up removing the heatsinks on my motherboard and adding M-2 ones with active fans for better thermal performance. Works without issue now and 20C cooler.

The packaging wasn’t damaged at all and easy very easy to install. Doesn’t come with a self attached heat sink so you will have to use the one already on the mother board, but other than that it was great!

Easy to install, works great !

Would have been Happy if it was compatible with my Dell Desktop but it wasnt.

All I can say is wow! I returned an ADATA XPG SX8200 PRO 500GB for this one and am so glad I did. All PCIE NVME drives are not created equal and benchmarks dont mean anything because they are synthetic and the drives are built to show the best performance on the benchmarks, which can be a far cry from how they actually perform. First the XPG SX8200 Pro website only gives you the best specs from the 1TB drive and its nearly impossible to find the slower performance information of the 512GB and 256GB drive on their website (should be a big hint to performance since they dont easily publish it, or list the smaller drive specs on the main page). Second, the bench marks were pretty close on cyrstal diskmark, but when I was actually testing 9GB file copies to and from the XPG, it was often below 600MB/s (even as low as 150MB/s steadily). It did perform better at times, but it was so spotty and nowhere near the benchmarks on a regular basis, I either got a dud or its just not as good as the specs are in real world performance. Yeah, it was about $30 cheaper than the the new Samsung EVO PLUS 970, but in the end, the price difference was waaaaay overshadowed by the real world performance.

Great value. Good for gaming or just general use. My go-to SSD at the moment in this price category.

This is something When I was extremely surprised with performance of the product.