Customer Ratings & Reviews

Bought this for the PlayStation 5 beta and the extra storage is needed… If you receive a beta invite grab this SSD if not grab it when the firmware is available to all you won’t be disappointed…

Is good so far.Hola a todas mi nombre es Toño tripleta.

This baby loads up everything super quick no complaints.

Works goodvery good, good good good good good good

This thing is great for downloading games and transfering data. It really is 4x faster than a regular m.2 ssd. Does not improve gaming other than loading a game faster. Overall cwry satisfied

Vastly enjoyed the quality product will buy again!!

I personally have not used it on my PlayStation 5 yet what I have seen the reviews on it I cannot wait to taste it when the update is released

Great service id recommend this to any of my friend

Bought this works ok but actual performance is about 3750 vs advertised speed on my system which is a 3900x -x570-64gb ddr4-rx5700 xt system, paired with a 970 1tb drive at 2800, so you be the judge

Great and easy to install my son was happy..........

Works great with my Playstation 5 console. Just make sure to buy a compatible heat sink.

Does not achieve top speed in PS5, but works. Says 7MB/S top speed but only reads 5.5MB/s in the PS5. This is just above the speed needed to be able to play PS5 games from the drive.

Latest and greatest from Samsung, can't go wrong.

Gaming laptop was lacking storage so I added this and use it with existing storage. Downloaded OS to this and it book’s extremely fast.

Swapped out a 970 evo for this one, and can see the difference in the R/W speeds as my computer boots up and runs quicker than before

Fast. Fast. Fast. This is one of the top, if not arguably THE best drive if you want a snappier system. Highly recommended.

It was a great buy worthy of the money i pay for it

Samsung 980 PRO 1TB Internal NVMe SSD for Laptops and Desktops I have 1 word of caution on this drive, buy a heatsink that fits your motherboard if your motherboard doesn’t have a fan system blowing on this drive. While doing my testing I ran up against a heat issue. When pushed even a little the drive hit 68°C on a regular basis. This was when being used on a Gen3 X4 motherboard with a 10th Gen i7 processor (I know, this setup doesn’t support the full speed of the drive, but it is my daily driver machine). When I moved it to a borrowed Gigabyte motherboard and an AMD Ryzen 3 processor it moved into the 72° C range very fast and I’m sure it would go well above that if allowed. It may throttle down the speed, but at what temp I’m just not sure. The NAND chip likes heat, the drive controller does not. I’m a little surprised Samsung didn’t include even a small stick on heatsink for the controller. I guess that would just add packaging and extra instructions, so you put the heatsink on the right spot. My borrowed motherboard and processor where not an ideal testing situation because I did not install all the extras you might have on your system. It was a bare bones test bed. With all this being said here are my results and thoughts about purchasing this drive. All test were run with CrystalDiskMark 8.0.0 x64 set to NVMe SSD. If your not familiar with this program please look it up. All the information about what to do and how it runs is on their web site. Results will be in this order, 1st i7 machine read and then write. 2nd AMD machine read then write. 1st set, on i7. Read SEQ1M Q8T1, 3421.20 Read SEQ128K Q32T1, 3548.38 Read RND4K Q32T16, 1754.87 Read RND4K Q1T1, 60.60 Write SEQ1M Q8T1, 3228.28 Write SEQ128K Q32T1, 3347.22 Write RND4K Q32T16, 2134.26 Write RND4K Q1T1, 112.57 2nd set, on AMD. Read SEQ1M Q8T1, 6515.20 Read SEQ128K Q32T1, 6650.60 Read RND4K Q32T16, 1726.42 Read RND4K Q1T1, 79.10 Write SEQ1M Q8T1, 4815.60 Write SEQ128K Q32T1, 4940.18 Write RND4K Q32T16, 1550.17 Write RND4K Q1T1, 189.36 I know the second set of numbers doesn’t match what Samsung is saying about the drive, but the setup was not optimized for the drive. It was done fast because I needed to get the motherboard and chip back to my friend. The only reason I did them was to show that the drive can run faster than what Intel is limiting it to right now. The real surprising part is that in a few cases the correct motherboard and chip were no faster than the i7. I was not surprised to see the sequential reads and writes were much faster. More PCIe lanes = faster throughput. but I was surprised to see that the random reads and writes were not any better, and in 1 case even a little worse. I’m just betting that given time I would have been able to get better results with the AMD. As I understand it, to see the number Samsung is stating you need to use the Samsung software to do your tests. When I ran this drive against a standard NVMe Gen 3 X4 drive on the i7 I found the 980 Pro was still faster. I’ll give you 1 number to judge against. Gen 3 X4 drive read was 2257.63, the 980 Pro was 3421.20. So if your building a new machine this drive will be faster even if you don’t build to this drive. I do recommend this drive because of overall speed and price. How long it will last at the higher temps is yet to be seen.

Used as a replacement boot drive old (970) It took several days to swap out using Samsung software as well as other highly rated disc transfer software. Jury is still out

Upgrade from a hard drive and it has made my computer way faster when it comes to booting and loading games