Samsung 970 EVO Plus 500GB PCIe NVMe M.2 (2280) Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) (MZ-V7S500)

Samsung's 970 Evo Plus M.2 NVMe SSDs are close to legendary performers at the sharp end of M.2 NVMe SSD performance charts. I was waiting for a long time to experience the performance of these drives first hand. The opportunity came when I purchased a new Dell G3 3500 (2020) Gaming Laptop with the following specs: i7-10750H, 1660Ti 6GB graphics, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB NVMe SSD, 15.6 inch 120Hz screen. The laptop by default has pretty decent specifications. But, when I was pushing through my workload, I could see it struggling.The RAM was the first to get upgraded to 32 GB (Hyper X running at 2933 MHz @ 17-19-19). This gave a good jump in performance. However, the slower M.2 NVMe SSD (DRAM-less Kioxia) was creating a bottleneck which was becoming quite obvious. Additionally, I was getting tired of hauling a portable SSD drive connected to my laptop that had all my files and data on it. When I saw an special offer on Amazon for the 970 Evo Plus 1 TB, I had to get 2 of them.Before installing the drives, I switched from the RAID to AHCI SATA mode on my laptop. [There are various resources online showing how to do this safely]. I installed the Samsung Magician software and Samsung NVMe drivers.The drives are easy to install. In my case, I had to remove the original SSD and install the 970 EVO Plus in its place.I used a cloning software (not the one Samsung provides) to clone my System drive to one of the 970. Then I booted up the system from the 970 after removing the old SSD. The boot time reduced from about 7-10 seconds (from the Dell logo to Windows login screen) to about 3-5 seconds. This was just a taster of things to come.These drives are outrageously quick. Data transfers, load times of software and games, everything happens blazing fast. Seeing the performance numbers and charts is one thing, experiencing the fast performance first hand is another.And then the drives rode away to glory....... Well, not quite. On just the third day after installing, one of the drives died. It wouldn't allow my laptop to boot. It was painful to see it happen and I was looking at a big loss. Fortunately, I was able to return the drive and buy a new one for the same special price on the same day. That was just pure luck!Now when the new drive arrived, I noticed something peculiar. Both drives which I had received the first time were made in Korea. But the drive I got the second time was made in China. I was in two minds - should I use it or return it? Checking the information on the box and verifying the serial number on Samsung's website revealed that the product was indeed genuine. That was half a relief. Now I wanted to know if the drives performed the same or different.This is what I have found by using the drives over a month. Both drives read and write performance is nearly identical (within margin of error). The "Normal" working temperature of the made in Korea drive is between 45 - 50 degree C; whereas the "Normal" working temperature of the made in China drive is between 38 - 42 C.The other thing I noticed was that both drives hit the peak temperature mark during benchmark tests around the same time and the peak temperature was also the same - 85 degree C. But for some reason, the made in China drive came back quicker to a "Normal" temperature than the made in Korea drive.Strange! It may also be that the made in Korea drive gets written to more often as it is my System Drive. But it's not a convincing enough reason for me.In short, the important thing is to make sure that the drive is genuine (by checking on Samsung's website) than where it is made. Samsung does a stellar job on Quality Control in my opinion.Update after more than 1 month of usage:The drives were running longer in the higher range of "Normal" to "High" during normal usage. Even though my daily work does not involve heavy write activity to the drives, working on a remote server was causing a lot of writes to the drives. I decided to install copper heatsinks on the drives to try and keep the temperatures in the "Normal" range.The results after installing the heatsink were astounding. (See photo). After this experience, I would recommend using a heatsink with these drives for anyone who intends to make full use of the capabilities of this drive.Samsung chose to base it's newer 980 Pro drives on the 970 Evo Plus than the 970 Pro. This should be proof enough for everyone about the potential of the 970 Evo Plus. Legend!

The original 128GB SSD on my 2017 MacBook Air was running out of space and was badly in need for an upgrade. I replaced it with this 1TB SSD and it gave the MacBook a new life. Note that an adapter is required to install a PCIE NVMe M2 SSD on old MacBooks. I used a Sensico M.2 NVME SSD Convert Adapter. Till now have not faced any issues with speed, battery life or heating. Planning to upgrade the storage of your 2017 MacBook Air? This could be a great choice.

Pretty nice SSD getting 1.2 gbps copy speed when transferring from another SSD

First and foremost, this is the only SSD available in the market which actually the best. And by best I mean, not the speeds or reviews but everything summed up together. Why not speed? Because even though m.2 nvme ssd is compatible with your system, the provider must have limited the threshold to 1/2x or simply you have a slower port like 3.0x2..Generally, this goes best with 3.0x3. Happy that I didn't face any such issue.Now coming to the *Pros* Part:1. The speeds may vary depending on the capacity or your system all alone but if everything goes fine, for the 250gb variant you are good to go with around slightly more than 3300mb/sec and a read speed of around 2300mb/sec.2. The boot times also vary and nvme generally is not considered for a faster boot times, but for heavy apps like chrome, ms apps, VS, virtualbox, etc. The apps are snappier and open in a flash.3. Installation is very easy, given that you have been provided with a screw of your own in the system. Otherwise it maybe a bit of a delimitation. The size of the screw is pretty uncommon.4. For users facing 100% disk usage problem, 970 evo plus will solve that problem easily, why? Because the throughput is so high that you might as well end up bottlenecking your system, lol!5. Last but not the least, this ssd is quite pricey, if you're getting it for a bang of anywhere around 4k. Think that why you shouldn't go for it! Haha...Coming to *Cons*, I couldn't find any but there are some problems which users might face:1. After installation, users also face lower speeds because of the AHCI vs RAID driver. If you're using this device only, you should go for AHCI, otherwise go for RAID. I repeat, do not go for AHCI until and unless you have a proper knowledge of how to switch from RAID to AHCI, cuz you will end up corrupting your OS.2. The SSD blazing fast, which results in random read and write of data everytime you open even a small application but then again given the warranty and the lifespan of it, which is 150TB, you will have to write about 40GB/day for 5 years to kill it. But the stats can be irritating.That is it. My suggestion would be to go for it if you are in need of an ssd and given that your system supports NVME.

excelente producto, llevo tiempo usandolo y no tengo problemas

Todo bien, de momento me ha funcionado sin problemas, en un mes compartiré mi sentir con el artículo

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snel geïnstalleerd en geleverd echt een top ssd

Le Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1 To est un choix exceptionnel pour ceux qui cherchent à améliorer les performances de leur ordinateur. Ce SSD NVMe M.2 offre des vitesses de lecture allant jusqu'à 3 500 Mo/s, ce qui se traduit par des temps de démarrage quasi instantanés et un chargement ultra-rapide des applications et jeux. J'ai remarqué une amélioration considérable de la réactivité globale de mon système après l'installation. De plus, la capacité de 1 To est idéale pour stocker tous mes fichiers, jeux, et logiciels sans soucis d'espace. L'installation est très simple, et la qualité de fabrication est au rendez-vous, comme toujours avec les produits Samsung. En résumé, ce SSD est parfait pour ceux qui veulent une solution de stockage rapide, fiable et de grande capacité. Je le recommande vivement à tous ceux qui cherchent à booster leur PC !