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28.2.2019

I've been struggling to maintain any reasonable amount of free space on my 1 TB SSD and I knew I would need to replace it with a larger model sooner or later. Like another reviewer for this particular SSD I was considering waiting for the Samsung EVO 970 Plus 2 TB, however that particular model is not available until at least April (according to Samsung's website). What is unusual is that the rest of the 970 EVO Plus range is available to buy now for very little cost difference and potentially substantial performance gains. If you are not looking for a 2 TB model then make sure you get the 970 Plus variant of the drive.Before biting the bullet I read up a lot on this drive first.It is a lot of money for a 2 TB drive but you are getting an incredibly fast SSD with some decent specs. With the Samsung NVMe disks you tend to get higher performance with the larger models, in part due to the extra DRAM cache on the drive but also the higher density of capacity on the NAND chips themselves. The 970 EVO 2 TB boasts Sequential Reads of up to 3500 MB/s, Sequential Writes of up to 2500 MB/s, up to 480,000 IOPS and a TBW rating of 1200 TB. Those are pretty astounding figures and with my previous experience of Samsung drives they are normally achievable too.Thankfully I received a genuine drive after reading some of the horrific reviews of people being sent old sticks of RAM! I definitely would not be happy either if that happened to me. I've never had any issues with items that are sold and fulfilled by Amazon but I know that if there were any issues they would do their best to sort it out. Still, I wouldn't want to be out of pocket for any amount of time after spending such a substantial amount on an item like this.Compared to a mechanical hard disk the difference in performance is astronomical and you will never look back. It's also considerably faster than a SATA SSD drive. Compared to another NVMe disk you may struggle to see much difference in everyday use unless you are using the disk very heavily such as for sustained data transfers and high random IO. This is still a killer NVMe drive though.Whilst initially copying my data to this drive it did get very hot. It does have a nickel-coated heat spreader on the controller itself which assists with heat dissipation but it was still too hot to touch and too hot for my liking. I've ordered an EK-M.2 NVMe passive heatsink to put on this drive to assist with the cooling just for my own piece of mind.This drive comes with a 5 year limited warranty which is becoming pretty standard for Samsung drives now. The nice thing about this SSD is the very high endurance rating. 1200 TBW is very high indeed and it would take years to hit that limit from every day use. I've yet to get anywhere near to wearing out a Samsung SSD and I've used lots of them over the years. They are very reliable drives.I'm very impressed with the benchmarks of this drive and it's easily one of the fastest drives on the market in this capacity. The 970 EVO Plus will be faster again but you will have to wait until April before that one is available to buy.This is a really impressive drive and if you can afford it I'd highly recommend it.Pros:- Samsung drives are decent quality and very reliable- Incredibly fast and one of the fastest 2 TB NVMe drives on the market- 5 year warranty- Works with Samsung Magician (the OEM drives don't)- High TBW endurance rating- Much cheaper than the 970 Pro for similar performance. The 970 Pro is also not available in 2 TB.Neutral- Requires a NVMe slot which older systems don't have (you can purchase a PCI Express adapter for the majority of PCs though).- The 970 EVO Plus variant of this drive is out in AprilCons- Expensive- Runs very hot under load
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8.5.2020

The M.2 SSD drives are some of the most important components for making a PC / Laptop feel fast and responsive.· These are 5 times faster than the SSD drives (+ 50 times faster than HDD) and are designed for use with PCIe connector. Computers with this type of storage have improved Boot Time and are 10 times faster in loading heavy software, video games or thousands of complex files.· Additionally, M.2 slots can access the PCIe bus which essentially means your SSD will run much faster than a SATA SSD +/ the M.2 drives with a PCIe interface have increased performance and take advantage of Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe)protocol which increases the performance and has a reduced latency.⚫ Now let's move on to the hero of our review:The Samsung 970 EVO Plus is an absolutely fantastic and a wildly fast NVMe M.2 drive.It's an excellent option for almost any user with a PC that supports PCI Express drives, the M.2 form factor, and the NVMe protocol… and also a great option for the High-End enthusiasts, Gamers, Videographers, CG Artists, VFX Designers etc. looking for the best consumer grade performance.• The 970 EVO Plus drive is offered in 250GB, 500GB, 1TB and 2TB capacities, and performance rises along with capacity, which is standard operating procedure for SSDs due to the parallelism in their design.• Its speeds are beyond belief with a noticeable performance jump when using computer 3D modelling software, intensive CAD work or playing Counter Strike 1.6 (funny guy).The speed, physical size, and capacity are impressive and the price while higher than 2.5-inch SSD’s are pretty reasonable for what you get in performance.? In case you are going to install Window on this disk - Make sure your system is using the UEFI platform rather than the old BIOS platform to take full advantage of the latest technology and all of its advantages.This means your System Drive will have a "GPT" Volume rather than an "MBR" Volume.· GPT is more corruption-resilient and has better partition management. It’s the newer and more reliable standard.· You will have to boot into your UEFI interface, and Turn Off "CSM" likely under BOOT Options before installing Windows or directly afterwards as well as when you update your UEFI/BIOS.· It's good to double-check the CSM setting stays off whenever you add another storage drive as well.As a 3D Motion Designer, I am very pleased with its performance.I bought a 500GB version, it feels a bit small but that's enough if you want to install a bunch of software and not a lot of games in one go.✔ Pros:+ Fantastic Performance / Fast PCIe 3.0 x4 M.2 storage+ High Endurance+ Low Latency+ Up To 2TB Capacity✖ Cons:- No complaints? I have been using this M.2 NVME SSD for 1 year and there have been no issues at all. It has performed flawlessly.Highly recommended!
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10.11.2019

If you have a MacBook Pro 15" (mid-2015) then hopefully the info below will prove of use to you. If so, I'd appreciate a click on Helpful. At the time that I needed to replace my failing Apple SSD I was struggling to find information on what SSD Adapters are required and if the actual SSD itself would even work inside my MacBook Pro. Below is the information that I would have found most beneficial at the time... Sadly, I had no choice but to take a leap of faith. So here it goes... (if you have a different MacBook Pro model then check elsewhere for compatability issues. Also note that, from what I read, some of the smaller MacBooks -- the 13" form factor -- do not have replaceable SSDs as they are soldered onto the motherboard)The original Apple SSD in my MacBook Pro 15" (mid-2015)started failing. Upon booting up, a folder icon with a question mark kept on appearing more and more frequently until the SDD eventually gave up altogether. Likely I made frequent backups using TimeMachine.I replaced the original "Apple SSD 1TB" with the "Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1TB NVMe M.2 Internal SSD". Considering SSD technology has improved over the last 4 years, this SSD appears to be faster and BlackMagickDesign Disk Speed Test reports Write Speeds of over 2500MB/s and Read Speeds of over 2100MB/s -- and also gives a green tick across all of its tests. (Regretfully could not yet locate any of the BlackMagickDesign Disk Speed Test screenshots I made a few years back on the original Apple SSD from 2015. I do recall however that, unlike with the Samsung 970 EVO Plus -- not all tests showed up with a green tick).In order for the Samsung 970 EVO Plus to fit into the MacBook Pro 15" (mid-2015) and SSD Adapter Card is required. To aid others I have provided a link below to the item that worked for me.https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07Q45BJCN/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1Be forewarned... I found it to be a rather tight fit!When inserting and/or removing the SSD and/or the Adarpter Card be careful not to not lift these items much higher than the minimum that is required so as to remove them from their slot!NB! Also before replacing your SSD make sure that have at least updated your Macbook Pro to Mojave. I am currently running on MacOS Mojave 10.14.6 without any issues. I cannot say anything about Catalina as I have not updated to it yet.
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25.10.2019

Its a NVME SSD, one of the better performing ones and from samsung a trusted brand.I will put here my reasons for the scoring.This ssd is lightning fast in benchmarks but for real world use it is no faster than my sata ssd's. This in itsel fis not necessarily terrible, but nvme ssd's do have a price premium over sata ssd's and as such it hurts in the value for money scope.The nvme protocol itself feels like a "beta" platform, not fully compatible with all modes of bios operation and OS, the monitoring aspect of nvme, bizarrely has no support for measuring things like CRC, FEC, and erase cycles so definitely a regression over AHCI.These ssd's need to come with heat spreaders or maybe even mini fans as passive cooling,I am aware nand is ok at hotter temperatures when powered up but the controller itself was at 79C at "IDLE" before I added any of my own cooling. A lot of boards place the m.2 slots in stupid places, mine is between the cpu and gpu, about the worst place possible, hence the temperature, I installed a side fan in my case and it lowered the controller idle temps circa 25C. I did consider installing an aftermarket heat spreader but had concerns over warranty and also the heat spreader would stop it fitting below the cpu cooler. The warranty concerns is why these need to come with heat sinks pre fitted.They are fiddly to install in a already built system, tiny screw to put in, and also you may have issues with drivers especially if you migrating an OS from existing sata ssd. I wish for pcie slot based nvme drives to take hold or a switch to u.2 in the consumer space. These will improve both ease of install and cooling.A word on EVO vs PROSince samsung no longer offer higher warranty on their PRO ssd's then there is no point in buying them now, they have double rated endurance per bit, but since icnreasing bits also increases endurance then the fact you get double capacity on EVO vs PRO at same pricepoint means an EVO drive at same price as a PRO drive has the same endurance rating whilst also having double capacity. The underlying sustained write speeds of TLC on 1TB and above generally are fast enough now days to not be a practical issue either. But on smaller drives, especially 256 gig, MLC might be worth still considering.
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18.11.2019

What can I tell you? I've given it 5 stars because, so far, the whole operation of purchase, delivery, installation, installation of OS, and use, has been as smooth as silk. I decide to build a new desktop DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) to run Ableton Live 10. And with the intention of connecting multiple audio and MIDI devices.I bought this Intel Mini PC from Amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07KPMWTQS/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 . It's bare bones so needed a hard drive, memory, operating system and all the peripherals. I chose an M.2 type SSD after reading up on the internet about keeping down the heat generation and about operating speed.I chose this RAM for the same reason: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01BNJL8I4/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1.For installation, I followed the instructions supplied by Intel (on the web). It was simple enough, and quickly done. But I did take the precaution of wearing an anti- static wrist band and earthing myself to the Mini PC chassis. Installing the OS on the drive was also just a case of following the bouncing ball. This OS was a great price at the time and it came supplied with Windows 10 on a USB key: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0111YEG44/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 But a much cheaper OEM version would do just as well.The PC boots up and Ableton opens up, all incredibly quickly. Installing any new USB device seems to happen in seconds. So I'd say the drive is working well with the PC and the RAM. Before I jacked up the permanent speed of the processor to around 4.45 Ghz from the standard 2.7Ghz, I don't think the PC fan operated at all, so I'd say, it's really not generating that much heat.So it's been one of those delightful (but sadly rare) experiences, when having chosen the product, then fitting it and using it just went very smoothly. I only have one pic, which shows the Mini PC itself... that measures a little over 10x10x5 cms and provides plenty of room for this M.2 SSD - I even have a Sandisk 2.5" SSD drive in there to hold my library files and it's certainly not "crowding" the Samsung.
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18.10.2019

For who wants to know what matters, in summary: This SSD is insanely fast and I am extremely satisfied of my purchase. I definitely recommend and it’s a must if you want to upgrade your pc.Now a little bit of back story why I am writing this extremely positively review.I have also a Crucial MX500 that I bought a while ago when first upgraded my pc from a normal mechanical hard drive. Needless to say I was surprised how fast the operating system loaded (win 10) after the first installation and the general responsiveness of my system incredible improved. I was pleased to see that reading speeds and writing speed (circa 500 MB/s)where confirmed in the benchmarks and everything was going fine until I needed more space (VR games are extremely demanding in terms of space). So I bought this Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 1 TB. The reason for which I went for the plus instead of the 970 evo was merely because I found a good offer from another seller for a product that had the damaged packing but that is in theory brand new.Well...I clearly read about sequential reading and writing speeds (up to 3500 MB/s) which were already order of magnitude bigger than my previous ssd. But I wasn’t prepared in terms of what that meant in real life.It is very easy to mount...if you remember that you need a screw to fix it on the motherboard.i didn’t have any at home so I had to find a screw from one of the toys of my daughter. That wasn’t easy.Clearly you do the normal stuff (e.g initialise the disk, update firmware etc) and then do the data migration. Samsung magician is very easy to use. Cloning my ssd in the new Samsung was pretty straightforward. All easy peasy.Now comes the mind blowing stuff. After setting up the boot priorities, I was expecting a booting time of about 20 seconds. Well...it took only 5-6 seconds. Unbelievable.I benchmarked the speeds and values are what the say on the box. So if you are thinking about this SSD don’t look further and think too much. It is really good.
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9.5.2020

The Samsung 970 PRO is the highest-performing NAND-based solid state drive I’ve tested.It's an excellent option for almost any user with a PC that supports PCI Express drives, the M.2 form factor, and the NVMe protocol… and also a great option for the High-End enthusiasts, Gamers, Videographers, CG Artists, VFX Designers etc. looking for the best consumer grade performance.• The 970 PRO drive is offered in 512GB and 1TB capacities.• Its speeds are beyond belief with a noticeable performance jump when using computer 3D modelling software, intensive CAD work or playing Counter Strike 1.6 (funny guy).The speed, physical size, and capacity are impressive and the price while higher than 2.5-inch SSD’s are pretty reasonable for what you get in performance.?In case you are going to install Window on this disk - Make sure your system is using the UEFI platform rather than the old BIOS platform to take full advantage of the latest technology and all of its advantages.This means your System Drive will have a "GPT" Volume rather than an "MBR" Volume.· GPT is more corruption-resilient and has better partition management. It’s the newer and more reliable standard.· You will have to boot into your UEFI interface, and Turn Off "CSM" likely under BOOT Options before installing Windows or directly afterwards as well as when you update your UEFI/BIOS.· It's good to double-check the CSM setting stays off whenever you add another storage drive as well.✔ Pros:+ Fantastic Performance / Fast PCIe 3.0 x4 M.2 storage+ High Endurance+ Low Latency+ AES 256-bit hardware-based encryption engine+ 5-year warranty✖ Cons:- No complaints? Overall, the Samsung SSD 970 Pro is a strong performer in terms of throughput and latency, with a variety of workloads.As a 3D Motion Designer, I am very pleased with its performance.Highly recommended!
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9.1.2019

I thought about this for a long time. My 256GB standard SSD was quickly reaching capacity and I wanted to make that a spare overflow for games. In the end I decided to just go for it and get the 970 Pro version (rather than the slightly cheaper Evo).The drive is incredibly fast. Not quite the revolutionary jump you experienced when going from HDD to SSD but is noticeably faster than standard SSDs. Windows now boots from cold to the logon screen before the Windows 10 loading screen even has a chance to appear. General use navigating Windows seems a little more lively too.I'm normally an advocate of a fresh wipe and install when I get a new primary OS drive but this time I really couldn't face it so decided to use Samsung's clone software.I'm glad I did - it worked absolutely perfectly. Install the new M.2 drive, boot your machine (to the existing, already installed drive), install and run the Samsung software and let it do its thing. I left my old drive dormant for a few weeks to ensure nothing was missed or broken during the clone process and it's all perfect, just running snappier. No missing files, software or driver issues.Install is easy. There's no motherboard screw included in the box but my M.2 slot had a screw already in place on the motherboard, intended to be used if an M.2 drive is installed. Once the cloning was finished, I had to physically disconnect my original SSD as my machine kept booting to it. This may just be an isolated case with my setup. No issue either way. Once I'd booted to the new drive I could then re-connect the old SSD and use it as a slave drive.Overall I'm very happy with it and have recommended it to many others. It's hard to believe something so small is so fast. 512GB extra space so I can finally install all the games I want without having to keep uninstalling to make more space!
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20.10.2019

I have this on a Gigabyte Aorus Z390 PRO and if you plan on buying an NVMe drive, check any potential issues with bandwidth allocation on your motherboard before you buy. For example, on my mobo there are 2 M.2 slots, and M.2M and an M.2A. Both slots "share" bandwidth with the SATA ports, M.2M replaces 1 SATA port, and M.2A replaces 2 SATA ports, and I do mean replace. With the NVMe installed, the disk/s is/are no longer visible in BIOS nor in the OS depending on the used slot. I had to buy a PCIe x4 NVMe adapter, hoping this won't share bandwidth with anything else, as the mobo's manual didn't explain this bit. I have 3 PCIe x16 slots on the mobo, top runs at x16, if a second GPU is connected,both x16 ports run at x8 each. The third x8 slot runs at x4 speed, that's where I put the adapter (I'll save you some searching, you can put an x4 card in an x8 or x16 slot). I decided not to put it in the second x16 slot as to not compete/force the GPU to run at x8.Images are from benchmark connected to the M.2 slot (left) and over the adapter (right).Be careful about buying adapters that take 2 NVMe drives, they would require to be x8 to take the bandwidth of 2 NVMe drives.I have all 6 SATA ports filled, with this I get to free up a SATA port, so that's a plus.I had an Samsung 860 1TB SSD before this one, and there is some perf improvement that's user noticeable (the OS loads slightly faster, the games load cutscenes a bit faster) but the perf as a user is not a giant leap (it will be if you go from HDD or SSHD to this). If you do a lot of file operations, you'll definitively see a big perf impact. One thing I noticed is with the NVMe the percentage used during intensive I/O went from 50% on the SSD to 7-9% with the NVMe, that for me was the biggest user facing improvement, and that I could free an SATA port.
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4.1.2019

I have successfully upgraded my 2015 MacBookPro 13" from 128GB to 500GB for £123. The result is more storage space and it is faster... I like it!I recorded these instructions from memory so they may have some mistakes. However, it shows how easy it is, providing you are careful and can use a small pentalobe P1.2 and Torx T4 screwdriver, which you need to buy elsewhere.The procedure took me a few hours, most of which was for the backup and restore in TimeMachine to my "slow" USB2 portable disk drive.Parts1. Sintech NGFF M.2 nVME SSD Adapter Card For Upgrade 2013-2015 MacBook.It is reported that this version is more stable than earlier versions so it does not cause kernel panics or issues withrestart & sleep mode: other brands have also been reported with similar problems so this is the safe bet.2. Samsung MZ-V7E500BW 970 EVO 500 GB V-NAND M.2 PCI Express Solid State Drive.Procedure1. Close all applications.2. Install the latest version of MacOS Mohave.3. Use TimeMachine to do a fresh full backup.* Use a spare external disk drive on USB or FW.* Go to System Preferences/TimeMachine, add the disk and wait until it has performed a full backup.4. Shutdown.5. Replace the existing SSD with the 970 EVO.* Open the patient and disconnect the battery.* Replace existing SSD with the new one.* Close the patient.* Connect the power supply and plug the TimeMachine disk back in.6. Startup. Mac should sense that the SSD is unreadable.7. Restore from TimeMachine.I cannot comment on battery life except that I have not yet noticed any problems.
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9.12.2018

I’ve been considering this drive and its predecessor for about 18 months now, primarily because I needed some more storage space on my PC. When I saw this on Amazon for £89, the price pushed me off the fence and I snapped one up immediately.Ease of installation is going to depend on your individual machine. In my case it was an upgrade to an existing PC, and the heat sink is medium-sized - any larger and I probably would have had to take it off to install this drive. If you’re doing a new build then I would recommend installing this first.So, is it fast? The short answer is yes, but the long answer is more nuanced. I’m going to focus more on the subjective rather than objective,because benchmarks are out there for anybody to read.If you’ve ever moved from a spinning disk to solid state drive you’ll likely still remember what a huge leap in performance and responsiveness it was. Do not expect that level of improvement. General usage is marginally better. Logins are fractionally quicker, updates don’t take quite as long to install etc. Yes, certain specific operations are going to be much faster, but the reality is the drive is just one part of a machine. You’re still going to be waiting on the network, USB, other SATA drives and so on. If you’re working with very large files locally (videos, virtual machines etc) you’re likely to notice more of a difference.As long as you don’t fall into the trap of looking at raw numbers, see a 5X improvement over your current drive, and then expect a 5X speed boost across the board you won’t go far wrong.
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16.1.2019

The Samsung EVO M.2 SSD's are hailed as being very good, and I agree, I have 2 of these in RAID 0 (because why not) and can find no fault in them.I would note that while M.2 drives are great, if you don't need the speed, it would be cheaper to just get a normal SSD, or even a Hybrid Hard Drive. So I can't say these are good value for money. Furthermore there are some complications that come with the new M.2 Slots.A number of things to note when buying an M.2 SSD.- They need specific slots on the motherboard, so check that your motherboard can support them. Also, there are different sizes of M.2 SSD, which is another thing to check on your motherboard. (This M.2 SSD is size/form-factor 2280,so it will fit the port in the following example motherboard specification; [M.2 connector (Socket 3, M key, type 2242/2260/2280/22110 SATA and PCIe x4/x2 SSD support)])- They are a bit strange to install, so I advise watching a video beforehand. (also note that many motherboards have heatsinks that are installed on top of this)- Also, a lot of motherboards share SATA or even PCIE data lanes with M.2, so using a M.2 slot may disable SATA ports or slow down PCIE lanes (The motherboard manual will detail if this is the case)(I have an Aorus Z390, it has 3 M.2 slots, the first is shared with 2 of the Sata ports, the second is shared with 1 Sata port, and the third is shared with the third PCIE slot. I am using M.2 slots 2 and 3 to maximist the number of Sata ports I can use.)
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13.12.2018

Samsungs clone software makes this a pretty easy process. We cloned, brought the drive on line. Leaving the original drive in place.The latest firmware uses a Windows Boot manager and we didn't want to reinstall the OS. So this is when things got interesting... we couldn't boot from the new drive unless we manually selected the drive at startup... (you need to upgrade your disk control to AHCI in bios) start Windows in safe mode and this will install the right drivers for windows i.e AHCI don't worry your old drive will continue to work on this new driver without you doing anything. OK so now both drives boot up but i still had to manually select the new drive at startup. (lesson learnt...reclone the drive as you have just install the drivers on the old drive). Im old school and selected the boot drive is now a legacy option (and I could nt get that to work with this drive). We found the old drive was on port SATA 0/0 and the master boot record was set to that port. The 970 was on ePCI 0/0... At that point we deleted the old partition on the old drive, rebooted and ran the Dell Alienware support software... from f12 at the bottom and selected the option to check the setup... 5mins later it found the boot error and corrected the master boot record and the system now boots from the new drive... no reinstall of OS. Thank you Alienware that self help support function rocks!IO speeds are crazy, windows boot up in less then 8sec... just buy it now!
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22.3.2019

in short, it is indeed very fast even on budget modern laptops. to get it working you will need several steps though, be prepared, this may not be plug-n-play. and if you set everything right you'll have just a bit over 200 gigabytes (it's 230+ out of the box and then you do the 10%OP).firstly I wish Samsung or Amazon would include the m2 little screw. S puts bunch of unnecessary papers, A can throw in lots of packing material, and no-one adds that little penny-worth screw, not to say a basic screwdriver (like one very successful Swedish retailer, uh?)borrowing the missing screw from another laptop part and my hardware installation is done in two minutes.then checking the BIOS; bingo,nvme there is.then downloading Samsung driver from their website.then populating, or whats it called, the drive, in the Device Manager. formatting for further bootable use.running speed tests with (downloaded) Magician.running Samsung software migration utility, some 10+ minutes for copying 100gb from SATA SSD.reserving 10% for Over Positioning. checking speeds again.changing boot priority in BIOS.and it works. Windows starts in under 10 seconds. all settings and programs work fine. the SATA drive shall become a media storage. this NVME could do even faster on all 4 PCI lanes, I know; I think it is very similar to what I have in x1.but I have one little screw missing on my laptop's cover, used it for fixing this ssd to the motherboard :-(
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29.2.2020

I have a 5,1 2009 Mac Pro. It's a great machine, and with the Mojave OS you can add this NVMe drive. I have the most recent firmware update which makes it compatible.I had (i'll come back to this) mine installed in a I/O CREST SI-PEX40129 Dual M.2 NVMe PCIe dual NVMe caddy. The NVMe SSD had a thermal pad on top of it and the inside of the Mac is well ventilated.At first however I ran into problems, as I needed the Crest in the PCIe slot above the gpu. Trouble is there is almost no gap and the gpu overheats. It took me a while to find out what was going on, and at first my Mac was repeatedly crashing due to the gpu overheating.Now I have this ssd one slot up.The PCIe slot is only 4x instead of 16x but at least the gpu is ok now.I'm not going to try and give figures here, but moving files around is very, very quick. No difference at all that I have noticed starting up my Mac or using programs.So now I am past some technical problems that are nothing to do with this ssd, I think it's really good. Can't comment on longevity obviously, but I'll update this if I have problems.I believe ssds come in SLC, MLC, TLC, and QLC. Thus is TLC. SLC is single cell, MLC multi cell (2), TLC is triple cell and QLC quad cell I believe. Basically the more cells, the shorter the life of the product as with the technology there is more to go wrong. I think for my use though it won't be worked like a data centre, so it should last me a long time.
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