Samsung - Geek Squad Certified Refurbished 980 PRO 1TB Internal SSD PCIe Gen 4 x4 NVMe

This is an excellent SSD, the non-heatsink vs. 980 Pro with heatsink, also directly installed into an M.2 slot on my laptop reads 3454 MB/s read and 3294MB/s write. The heatsink version has much lower speed than the 980 Pro without the heatsink, so I put it into my M.2 slot on the motherboard of my desktop, and it had speeds of 2603MB/s read and 3381MB/s write. (Pictures provided of results) I've seen forums where there are obviously faster SSD's which came out at around the same time as this drive, but they are much more expensive. Overall, for the price and the storage space, I like this drive, and having a BestBuy in the neighborhood is even more incentive to go pick one up. I bough this refurbished one for half the price of the new one ($50 I think, and the new one was $89.99) and it only had a few gigabytes written to it, so it was practically brand new. I am very happy with it so far, I need to reinstall Windows onto this drive on my laptop, as it's currently running a 2TB Seagate @ 5400rpm which is just criminal. (Photos are of the same 980 PRO but with heatsink, I didn't photograph the non-heatsink when installing it into my laptop, unfortunately, sorry, but it's the same thing, just no heatsink, fits nicely in a laptop M.2 drive) BIG HEADS UP! So, this is a BARE DRIVE, so it does not come with screws to affix it to the mounting posts on your motherboard, this was a pain in the donkey for me, as those screws are super rare and I resorted to removing a motherboard mounting screw to hold the SSD down. So be sure that you have extra motherboard-type screws on hand, I couldn't find any at Best Buy and I don't know where to get them, I guess China? Best of luck!

I found a good deal on this Samsung SSD from Best Buy. It was refurbished, which means someone opened and returned the drive. I needed the drive for a lenovo ThinkPad T570 upgrade. Search for DrB DIY Samsung SSD and you can see how to replace the drive in that laptop. So far, so good. The laptop is faster than before since I replaced an old 512GB. Good product. Samsung makes good storage devices.

I was in "need" of a storage upgrade - coming from a Samsung 970 EVO 500 GB PCIe Gen 3 (boot drive). So I took a risk and purchased these certified refurbished PCIe Gen 4 SSDs, but it was worth it. I thought I was going to get heavy-used SSDs that I would just return and pay the extra money for brand-new ones, but I was surprised. They came with factory boxes and the serial numbers matched. Good. I used my SSK M.2 NVMe SSD enclosure and ran Crystal Disk Info. One SSD had only 6 hours of use with 100 % health and the other had ZERO hours of use with 100 % health! Nice! Samsung Magician benchmark showed them running as advertised. Awesome! No sticker swaps here! Now, both are running in PCIe Gen 4 M.2 slots on my rig after a clone using Macrium Reflect. Of course, your results may vary, but I would recommend purchasing these from Best Buy. Once you get them, do the work to make sure that you're getting what you paid for.

I purchased two of the Samsung 990 Pro 1Tb NVMe 4x4 refurbished Geek Squad certified several years back when I built my current rig. It’s still extremely fast and hasn’t given me any problems yet. Would buy again!

Excellent NVME SSD. I would suggest checking the drive in the Samsung Magician to make sure it has not been abused with tons of writes. A few Terabytes or less is fine. 10 Terabytes or higher is not. Mine showed 932GB written (see picture). For reference, after I set up a brand new laptop its drive showed 935GB written. So, this refurbished 980 Pro was barely used. Testing the SSD against a brand new 990 pro in the same laptop. The laptop is a brand new HP Omen 16.1 inch with an Intel 13700HX and an RTX 4060. The 980 Pro did pretty well. See the pictures of the test. The refurbished 980 Pro Crystal Disk score was also 9.6% better (overall) compared to the factory Western Digital (SN810) drive that came with the HP Omen laptop.