Samsung 980 PRO 2TB M.2 NVMe PCIe Internal Solid State Drive (MZ-V8P2T0B/AM)

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] First my custom built gaming desktop I built 4 years ago specs. ASUS REPUBLIC OF GAMERS MOTERBOARD FORMULA X, EVGA 1080TI VIDEO CARD, 32 GB MEMORY, ASUS PREDATOR XB1 MONITOR, INTEL i7 770K CPU 4.20 GHZ. Okay I am replacing my Samsung 960 EVO 1TB SSD with the new Samsung 980 2TB PRO. Very easy downloaded Samsung migration software from Samsung website. Installed the new 980 pro in my second M.2 slot very easy no tools needed. Powered up desktop started migration software very easy point and click on screen guide. The whole hardware and software completion 30 minutes up and running. The 980 pro a little faster startup, big improvement over gaming smoothness and latency highly recommend lots of improvement over my 4 year old Samsung 960 to the 980 pro.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] This Samsung - 980 PRO 2TB PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe Gen4 Internal Gaming SSD M.2 is a replacement for my old WD BLACK 500GB SN750 NVMe SSD. First foremost, The PCIe 4.0 is designed to provide faster data transfer and decrease load time which is very obvious when first installed. My Alienware Aurora R7 was blazing fast with my old WD SSD during boot time, loading games, running software, etc. But, this Samsung is noticeably faster, and my PC boot time has reduced from 12 to 8 seconds, as well as my games load time is at lighting speed and other programs load almost instantly compared to what I had before. Pros: Easy installation with Samsung Magician Software True speed as advertised Big storage. In my case, I jumped from 500GB to 2TB Pros: This SSD drive is costly unless it gets picked up when on sale. Great product!

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] 980 PRO is wonderful. This NVME drive can give you the maximum speed of NVME 4.0. I install this into my new system. It is a blazing SSD in the market. Running lots of graphics and data analysis is not a problem as the SSD has high-performance bandwidth capabilities and excellent cooling. I highly recommend this SSD to those who find a NVME 4.0 drive for their new or upgrading their old system. Pros: - Speed - Unlikely to ever fail - Warranty - Sampson magician Cons: - May run hot - make sure to cool it appropriately (probably not the best choice for hot laptop chassis) - Needs pcie 4.0 (again, excludes most laptops)

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I received the 2TB 980 PRO PCLe 4.0 NVMe from Samsung and it’s a beast. I did an upgrade from a 500GB SSD which was still doing me justice but being able to store games on the NVMe and start them, has really cut the load time. The one downside is that my mother board only has a PCLe 3.0 slot, so I am not getting the read/write times that I could get with a PCLe 4.0, but the numbers are still huge. I am averaging 3,300 MB/s read and write times, if I had a PCLe 4.0 it would be getting around 7,000 MB/s on read and write times. Samsung has monitoring program called Magician. Magician monitors drive health, optimize performance, can encrypt the drive, and update your firmware. One of my favorite aspects of the magician software is the heat monitoring that it does. You can run it at full throttle and be able to actively manage the heat buildup. The 980 PRO PCLe 4.0 NVMe will be a great drive for many years to come.

Works great in my PS5. Some games load and run faster from it. Definitely recommend to anyone for the PS5.