If Samsung NVMe drops in price closer to aData, it could be a nice upgrade.

and it did not disappoint either, great upgrade to speed up a laptop for sure

Excellent upgrade for my older Dell laptop with an original 7200 internal drive.

The only problem was getting the old larger 160G to fit on the new 120G - but I learned a little more LINUX to figure that out

You can ignore the heat spreader as from what I understand it doesn't make much of a temp difference but if you like the look, feel free to slap it on, but make sure to take a snapshot of your manufacturer sticker first for RMA and registration purposes.