This version of hard drive is the way to go.

Is the overall system performance benefit of installing this drive over-hyped

This was as easy as any hard drive installation I've ever done, and I've done quite a few

Not a cheap drive, you are paying for data safety, hardware reliability, and speed

Keep in mind that you do have to have the cable and adapter to clone your previous hard drive over so you can wipe it and install this one

Now I don’t always have to carry around an external hard drive.

Easy to install and transferred all my info from the hard drive using their software

The Samsung SSD M.2 drive is working flawlessly and is very fast

It’s significantly faster than traditional SSDs and not even in the same park as hard drives

With that disappointment said, the 970EVO Plus is a very fast quality drive that should last for many years

I was running out of space on my 500GB internal hard drive that came with my Lenovo Yoga 720, so I decided to try to clone everything onto this 1TB

Awesome hard drive for the money

Very fast and reliable drive after a year of heavy use

if you know anything about computers you know this drive is easy to install

I've been happy with previous Samsung hard drives but I honestly can't give this one a pass

decided it would be a good idea to put thread locking compound on the tiny screws that hold the heat sink cover in place, which took me some effort to remove, but the hard drive installed seamlessly

It installed easy and I was able to clone my old hard drive with minimal trouble and the new SDD was recognized the first

Most of the time when you have a bottleneck on your PC it ends up being the hard-drive

Like the headline says this hard-drive is super fast

With my Micron hard drive, a query would typically take 5 to 15 seconds.

If you're replacing a hard drive this is fine if you're adding another hard drive please know samsung doesn't take a moment to include a very cheap but not easy to get a hold of item

I then transferred 675gb of media from my old hard drive (Samsung 860 EVO) in 20 minutes

Fast drive, great storage for it on sale for ~$200, a great deal.

Good drives.

This is the first time I received a bad drive.

This is not an issue with the hard drive, it is the way it is

This is a great drive, but it was harder to setup than I was expecting

Amazing drive

Excellent ssd drive, works like a charm, even on my 11 year motherboard with an pcie 3.0 adapter!Very fast, 7 times faster than my old Samsung 850!

Plus SSD 2TB - M.2 NVMe Interface Internal Solid State Drive works without issue

Swapped in to replace the factory drive my T14 G1 came with (FYI, always spec the cheapest drive and buy one like this

If you can swing it I would recommend one of these as a boot drive with other storage media for data storage, such as SATA 3 HDDs and SSDs

I have a smaller 1TB Samsung M.2 NVMe Interface Internal Solid State Drive in my computer

The drive is Samsung who are known for their quality products and it did not disappoint

It's a nice drive that meets its posted speeds, but note that the 2TB model runs at least 10°C hotter than the 1TB model, which may be a problem if used in a laptop.

Nice m.2 drive, very fast, Samsung quality.

Just a typical user who's been run through the wringer by SSD hard drive failures and replacements.

I have been using only Samsung hard drive for over 10 years (nothing else

it originally came with an extremely slow Seagate 1TB hard drive that stopped working within two years, I removed the back cover and located the faulty SATA drive, and to my surprise I found an empty M.2 slot, so I immediately ordered this Samsung nvme SSD because they are the best out there

It’s an incredible drive for an incredible price

Hard plastic shell protects the drive

Definitely recommend getting one for your setup if your motherboard has a place to install it and don't have to store everything in a SATA hard drive

It's so nice to have a huge amount of storage space available without needing an external hard drive too!

Personally I think the new drives should be cheaper if they offer slower performance.

Fast shipping, great price, good drive that works great and installation is a snap.

I noticed my computer boots up much faster with this SSD than my hard drive

I think these more affordable drives do very well for the price, and last exactly as long as I need them to.

Plus using an inferior drive controller."Disappointing that I JUST installed this

Installed a Hardware monitor to find this drive hitting 67 degC. Too hot

I assume the old drive had some performance degradation as it filled up

I liked the drive so much I bought one for my laptop.

Simply put, this is the best and most cost-effective drive you can get if you want the fast PCI

Still a great drive even if the price to capacity ratio is higher than I'd like.

If you’re upgrading from an old SSD or -God forbid- a hard drive, this will feels super fast!

It's a great drive

Like the headline says this hard-drive is super fast

The drive itself is super easy to install, and most motherboards nowadays don’t require you to mess with any settings in your bios to allow the drive to work

And when I replaced the hard drive in a very slow laptop with another version of this SSD from Samsung, the difference was even more amazing

That said, decent drive for the money, but no screw.

Easy to install, cloned from internal hard drive, no issues

I am very satisfied with performance as an external drive as it is comparable to buying Samsung X5 but for much less

970 EVO Plus SSD 2TB - M.2 NVMe Interface Internal Solid State Drive on sale for a sweet price

This drive is smoking fast and the read/write speeds are very high and equal.

I can't imagine doing anything that would require a faster drive than this

Realistically, the drive is marginally faster than an 850 Samsung Pro, Maybe 1sec less off windows boots, slightly faster game loading speed

One thing that does worry me is that the samsung magician software reports the drive as running hot under pretty low loads

Awesome hard drive for the money

the slower drive is by checking the model number on the drive itself

The write speeds were as much as 20 times as fast as the old drive.

With a hard drive in my

Snappy quick drive!

This drive is FAST

It seems to be a good drive but the details on the pcie made me buy it thinking it was a pcie 4 not 3

Overall it makes the drive run hotter and in certain scenarios far worse.

Samsung drives never disappoint

This is a fast drive but it runs really hot

made a big difference in loading times on the one x as these drives are significantly faster than the ssd's in the one x even though the one x cant take full advantage of nvme speeds.

It's boot speed is substantially better than any hard drive obviously, and the temperature is hardly noticeable

This was as easy as any hard drive installation I've ever done, and I've done quite a few

If you are reading this and looking at reviews, you are a gamer or know what a good drive is

Kept the old drive as an emergency recovery drive, but you could also mount it in the usb enclosure and use it as a fast external ssd drive

A fast drive that is very durable

Just built my pc and so far this drive is amazing

Hit next, finish, and boom your new drive will now show up in your file explorer and you can start installing!

Samsung drives are very reliable and consistently outperform many of their competitors

Great drive, runs a bit warm, but supposedly that is not a bad thing for solid state drives

Best hard drive you could purchase for this price

(around 53 seconds).Overall this is a wonderful drive and definitely the best one available for Gen 3 nvme.

I highly recommend this drive, but wait to get it on sale, it then makes the price more bearable.

Their migration software makes it easy to transferall your data from your old hard drive

The Dell Support Assist tool indicated that the hard drive, a Dell

Excellent SSD hard drive

If it fails, no drive found, windows errors

When I bought a new computer in November 2019, for my video editing, a Dell Precision M7740, I learned it had FOUR slots for solid-state hard drives

These M.2 drives are really nice.

Overall, Samsung IS and ALWAYS the go-to/gold standard for reliable hard drive use.

This solid state memory SSD drive is reasonable fast and easy to install.

While my first drive never got warmer than 58-60c under load without it, I was able to lower my temps by 10 degrees using the heatsink from my new motherboard.

970 Evo Plus hard drive and swap it.

My older drive has worked flawlessly so I'm sold on the quality of the Samsung drives

I searched Google and found a thread on ifixit that detailed the issue and the folks there recommended this drive, which was my second choice

East instal and the Samsung software to clone the drive is excellent and easy.

TB - M.2 NVMe Interface Internal Solid State Drive ran for 2 days and failed, so i am stuck with a 175 dollar paper weight, This will never happen again, Not A Happy Camper

These M.2 drives are no joke, used this to replace my old boot drive and the computer starts twice as fast

This hard drive is so fast the folder is open before you click it.

I suspect the wrong drive was in the sealed box.

Tech support suggest testing the old drive without RAPID then my new drive will be a better drive.

2TB - M.2 NVMe Interface Internal Solid State Drive is awesomeness personified as it is easy to

M.2 drives are great

I replace all my old laptop hard drive to SSD drive

Others than that, it's a great drive with excellent 3500Mbps read at a fair price.

If you find this for a good price, it's a great drive to either increase the space of the SSD you already have by changing it out, or if you are using an HDD, then you will be amazed by the upgrade you get in read and writes

This hard drive is so fast the folder is open before you click it.

After taking the hard-drive to be installed by Best Buy, it was easy doing the Windows 10 USB installation myself

Are much faster than mechanical hard drives

The read speeds were about twice as fast as the old drive.

Overall, Samsung IS and ALWAYS the go-to/gold standard for reliable hard drive use.

It'll over provision your drive as well.

Ironically that drive wasn't so much incredibly faster than the OEM drive, which is probably because being on the smaller size of the line, there was less parallelism amongst the nand.

I ran a drive test and speeds were great for such an inexpensive drive

This is so much faster than the Hard Disk Drive that was originally installed

Its an excellent drive

Update my review because I thought the drive was bad, turns out the motherboard m.2 slot was the problem.

When I bought a new computer in November 2019, for my video editing, a Dell Precision M7740, I learned it had FOUR slots for solid-state hard drives

For its class and capacity, this is the best NVMe drive I could find.

Lightening fast, great drive for the price.

Excellent SSD hard drive

This little drive is very fast

Easy to install, Very fast drive, Cloning software worked the first time.

Excellent drive.

A proper drive cloning should be done with bootable media, and I used EaseUS Partition Master 15 WinPE, and used all the defaults to clone the drive while in an external nvme m.2 usb enclosure, and it worked flawlessly.

Best hard drive you could purchase for this price