Customer Ratings & Reviews

Great drive for OS, games, and large downloads. It outperforms most comparable drives for virtually no added cost. This is my second 1TB 980 Pro thanks to a good deal and I'm looking forward to getting a larger 990 Pro so I can store all my games in one place.

Quality and reasonably priced SSD drive. Original drive in my laptop, which was some unknown name brand, failed and in less than a couple of days I purchased this one, replaced the original drive and was back in business.

What I did was to remove my drives that I have installed, and then installed this drive as my only drive, and installed Windows 10 onto this. In this way, all the partitions and such are on this SSD, which was to allow me to really get a feel for the speed increase. Installation was not difficult, but might be a bit more intimidating to someone who is not familiar with this style of drive. Once installed I loaded Windows 10 onto a thumb, and started the installation. My performance increase was decent. I found myself realizing that this newer technology is worth the money and worth the time to install, to realize the best performance out of my computer as possible. Why have the best gaming machine and not have the best components available to give you the edge when gaming? You'll see a definite improvement with your gaming, but also I found programs like AutoCAD loading and running much faster. Needless to say, all other programs like web browsers, email, etc. were running faster as well and when I was running intense Excel sheets with multiple worksheets and lots of calculations, they too were improved. Don't be afraid to venture into this territory, it is worth the marked improvement in overall performance, but also certainly you will see an improvement in gaming and other programs that are intense.

This is my sixth review I have written for various Samsung NVMe M.2 and SSD drives. The reason for the number of reviews is I have found them to be extraordinarily reliable drives going back to my first Samsung SSD which continues to perform well in one of our machines. The 980 PRO 1TB has been installed into our top gaming machine replacing a NVMe M.2 500GB system/boot drive. The system drive was migrated to the new 980 PRO with Samsung’s Data Migration software. Fun thing about migrating a system with two top end NVMe M.2 drives is the blistering speed at which the migration is performed. As always in using Samsung’s Data Migration Tool the system upgrade ran smooth and all the data arrived safely on the new 980 PRO. Like that. Spotlight: • Blazing Speed • PCIe 4.0 – compatible with PCIe 3 • Form factor which can be used even in laptops • Samsung Magician Software - Manage your drives health - Excellent tool • Data Migration Software • Five Year Warranty – That is a lot of Reading/Writing • Nickel coating for managing controller's heat level Samsung has continued in its leadership of speed, development, and warranty coverage and if you are looking for a no-nonsense drive for the gamer in you or managing and keeping your data safe at excellent price take close look at the 980 PRO.

This was a very needed upgrade! The drive is fast and was easy to install. It was immediately detected and the image was restore much faster than the other drive. Highly recommended!

I was surprised by the amount of improvement in response times on my PC when I installed this drive, as my PC was already running an older, smaller version of an M.2 NVMe SSD. I got very noticeable improvement in boot up speed, app loading, and read and write speed on large data files on my Dell XPS 8920. If you're looking for more speed, this is Samsung 980 Pro NVMe SSD is definitely the way to go, if your PC or laptop supports an M.2 NVMe drive. You should be aware that if your PC or laptop doesn't have an unused PCIe M.2 slot you will need a NVMe M.2 drive enclosure and cable in order to copy your OS to the new drive. The data migration software is available for free on Samsung's website, and it includes step by step instructions for the data transfer and computer setup. They also have a pretty cool software tool (also free) Samsung Magician that includes drive information, performance benchmarking, diagnostic scan, over provisioning, and performance optimization.

Best SSD on the market hands down. This thing is blazing in my desktop, with plenty of storage to boot! I have never experienced this type of performance honestly, but then again no one has since this is the fastest speed of any currently available drives. Definitely get this one!

This is a really great hard drive. If you know what you are doing it installs really easily. I didn't try to do any imaging of my old drive or anything like that so I just reloaded windows from scratch. The install was nice and fast and everything went really smoothly. I haven't been able to get the speed numbers that they advertise for this hard drive, but looking into it I'm sure its my computer. It is a little bit older and I think I'm getting everything my computer can handle. Still this is about 4 times bigger than my old hard drive so its still an improvement. When I was looking into my speed issue I realized this is the perfect hard drive to get the full benefit on the new PS5s, so I'm thinking of getting a cheaper and slower hard drive for my laptop and then putting this in a PS5 when they aren't out of stock anymore and I can get one.

It was in stock. Across town. They shipped it to me in a couple days. That's good. Price was virtually the same as everybody else. And I knew that it would be easy to return if there was something wrong so I chose best buy. And yes it's very fast. Did not come with any kind of a heat shield, or anything other than just what you see in that picture. In my alien x17r 2 I think it is, it's running at less than 40° c.

This 980 Pro has been astonishingly awesome upgrade for my computer! On a X570 board, I used the Samsung Magician cloning software and an external M.2 SSD USB 3.0 enclosure to clone my old Crucial P1 1TB boot drive contents onto this baby. The Samsung cloning software made this simple. I then swapped the P1 for the 980 Pro on my MOBO, booted into the BIOS, selected the 980 Pro as my boot drive, and I was up and running! The speeds on my PCIe 4.0 board are living up to the expectations of what this drive can do with sequential reads in the nieghborhood of 6000mb/s and writes in the 4500-5000mb/s range. Samsung, although generally more expensive per GB than competitors, never ceases to impress. I highly recommend this drive if you have a PCIe 4.0 MOBO that is capable of utilizing all the power this has to offer!

You can never really go wrong with Samsung SSD's. They just work. And for the price, it's hard to beat.

This Samsung 980 Pro NVME SSD is SUPER fast. I was skeptical that I would see much improvement over a similar SSD but the Samsung 980 Pro is head and shoulders above the rest. Highly recommended!

Faster write speed than the internal drive. I ran Dirt 5, Ghost of Tsushima, and Yakuza 7 to name a few. All ran fine. Been running this ssd since the PS5 storage beta.

Easy to install. Very fast. Would recommend for computer upgrades.

If you want state of the art speed, great reliability, and your games to load faster than ever before. BUY THIS PRODUCT!

A lot of newer laptops come equipped with this type of storage, make sure your laptop has the proper slot. You just put the drive in the slot and put in the single set screw to hod it in place. You can use this drive as your primary or as a backup drive, however you want to configure your system. Samsung's Magician and Data Migration software helps set up the drive and copy your data from one drive to another. Some retailers are coming out with external shells for these drives, so you can use them as external / portable hard drives. All in all, lots of fast storage in a small package.

This drive is easy to install and runs incredibly fast.

Not good for use with the ps5 due to the lack of heat dissipation

Solid drive for pci4x4, write speeds are pretty fast. doesn't come with m2 screw, make sure you have one handy

Works really well. Great speed, good price and all together a great product