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

Great product at a good price.

This is a followup review,I initially wrote that this drive performed up to expectations with 3300/3100 but after owning it for a month and seeing it drop to 3300/1000, I have to report is has failed and is probably defective ...I had this drive and a hynix p31 gold at the same time...Both run with adapters and with heatsinks from the start... the evo 970 plus had very low read iops and low write iops even when new, barely doing half the claimed amount..the hynix had double the iops of the samsung....The samsung ran quite hot from the get go but became Extremely hot as it began to fail..temps initially With heatsink were around 51c and at the time of write speeds dropping, it was probably at 80c as it was too hot to touch ...this is crazy high for an nvme with heatsink and probably why these drive may have poor longevity...samsung Knows the power consumption is thru the roof and it may be a byproduct of the high write speeds....would I recommend for a laptop? Absolutely Not! these are too power hungry, will give you poor battery life and literally fry itself inside ur laptop....The hynix p31 gold was a Much better drive with equal performance and cool running but unusable on mac...

We bought this drive for my dads desktop, and its slightly old (6th Gen Intel era) so its motherboard doesnt actually have a m.2 slot, however, I just ordered one for 10 bucks. Installing windows was a breeze, and happened pretty fast. For a drive thats only 60 bucks, and 1 TB, DRAM is a pretty nice plus. Its really fast, like, it loads windows under 5 seconds, and programs are only limited by how fast the cpu can load them.

Great performance

10/10 Getting this. it was delivered quickly in couple days. Im pretty surprised samsung shipped it in couple days or 2 days later its already here on New Zealand. it was quick and the dhl was pretty nice to drop it off in a good way. Use this for Laptop Asus Rog G15 Upgrades or up laptop latests ones.

Decent SSD speed for the price

Pros:

I couldn’t find a laptop with a 1TB drive for under $1,000.00 anywhere. I picked up one with a 512 gb drive. Found this 2tb drive and kept my computer under $1,000.00. What a deal! Had to do some cloning to get it to work. But easy peasy. Faster than my old hard drive and space for days!!!

Bought this to upgrade my SSD. I has to buy another USB drive to download my system to. Other than that, happy with the choice.

With the rice of PCIe Gen 4 and faster SSDs, this may be an outdated drive compared to newer Samsung drives, but for older laptops still using PCIe Gen 3, this is a great drive at an affordable price. I replaced the stock 256GB Intel drive in my X1 Carbon 6th Gen with this 1TB 970 Evo Plus, and it is noticeably quicker. Also, with a 5 year warranty and historic Samsung reliability (been using Samsung SSDs daily for years now), I dont have to worry about data loss for the foreseeable future. Definitely a great SSD and the speeds speak for themselves.