Customers value the 980 PRO 500GB Internal Gaming SSD's exceptional performance, ease of installation, and fast boot times. Many appreciate its compatibility with various systems and the included software for drive management. While some find the price high for the storage capacity, the overall experience is overwhelmingly positive due to its speed and ease of use.
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Performance, Speed
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Price
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Pro drive for gaming and CAD
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Posted . Owned for 2 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Superior drive. Fast. Reliable. Good manufacturers warranty. I think 5 years. Expensive but worth the premium. Serious drive for serious computer users. 500gb for $80.
1TB for $100
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Speed
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Samsung - 980 PRO 500GB Internal Gaming SSD
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Using on two PC’s what a difference! Fast and stable!!
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Syper fast
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Very fast, affordable drive thar is best used for your main system drive.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Ease of use, Speed, Ssd
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Gaming, Video Editing, Graphic Designs
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Gaming, video editing and graphic design, I am enjoying the speed up to 6900/5000 mb/s reads and writes keeping up with what I need to do. It is compact and was easy to replace, if unsure, just read the manual. I like that it stays cool while performing at fast speeds. I usually build my pcs with the best of the best and almost every year I replace for better and faster and this is one of those products that play well. Definitely it is an upgrade to have for faster and smoother computer. I also like the Samsung Magician Software, another tool to monitor the health while optimizing and best of all to keep it up to date. It came in a small box nicely packaged and ready to be installed.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Boot time, Speed
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Speed crazy
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
When I first put it in inside my custom PC and did a speed test, The speed was crazy even booting up the PC was super quick, totally worth it at a good price,
I would recommend this to a friend
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Boot time, Performance, Speed
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
I wanna go fast!
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Fast, stable, reliable, runs cool. This is my 3rd 980 purchased for various builds. Great product! Paired with a 10400, 11400, and 5600X. Almost instant boots.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Boot time, Speed
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Samsung SSD 980
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The Samsung SSD 980 was simple to install. It delivered the advertised speeds. It was immediately recognized by my BIOS. OS boot times are short and programs load from it in a snap. Perfectly suits my needs. Would purchase again if I need more space.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Loading times are crazy amazing
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I must say that this Samsung 980 PRO 500GB Internal Gaming SSD is a definite Must Have drive for anyone who seriously considers gaming and any high productivity computing. This little stick has so much to offer and I am glad I purchase it. Installation is quick and smooth. And then the magic begins: in-game menu switching is instantaneous, load times are super fast thanks to its powerful transfer rates. Also this drive delivers 2x the data transfer rate of PCIe 3.0, while maintaining compatibility with PCIe 3.0, so if your PC does not have latest PCIe 4.0 you are still in good hands! I am looking forward to putting this drive to use in my PS5, it will be a definite upgrade. I am very pleased with its performance and cannot even imagine having something faster in the future. I mean this drive is really more than enough for any game user.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Speed
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great ssd
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Posted . Owned for 7 months when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Great ssd Samsung had never let me down, good speeds low Temps
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Speed
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Blazing Fast NVMe Drive
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Posted . Owned for 6 months when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
This was my first NVMe drive. I have always been a SATA SSD guy. I was upgrading my rig with a new board and modern processor. My board had a PCIe 4 NVMe port and I decided to get this drive to maximize the system speed. Oh my. I have never seen a machine boot so fast. Everything just flies. Apps install in a blink (obviously it depends on what is being installed). You will not regret it. But, to get the faster speeds you have to have a CPU and board that will support the Gen 4 NVMe. I have always been happy with Samsung SSDs. The software they give you is great for managing the drives. You get the quality extras with Samsung that you will not see with the really cheap drives. I use the software to provision the drive with less space and increase the life of the drive allowing it to replace aged memory cells if needed. I have been on some of my SSDs for over five years. I also have moved certain OS features off of the SSD to spinning drive (file replication for one) to significantly reduce the write actions on the drive. Never had a Samsung device fail on me at home. At work we had one that was dead out of the box. Samsung replaced it under the warranty.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Speed
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Perfect Drive for Windows and QOL Software.
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Posted . Owned for 11 months when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
I use this drive as my windows boot, as well as anything not related to gaming or storing executables I use often. Windows boots up instantly.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Ease of use, Speed
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Memory
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Posted . Owned for 6 months when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Super fast memory for the price what i paid, easy to install
I would recommend this to a friend
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Boot time, Speed
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great PCie 4 with fast speeds and quick response
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Posted . Owned for 3 months when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
So my laptop came with a 1T hard drive but it would always take so long to boot up and actually get some work done. I've heard that installing an SSD would make it faster but i wanted to keep the 1T drive on it because it has all my information files on it and didn't want to risk losing them. That's when i figured out that my laptop has a PCie slot in the motherboard and right away I searched this up, purchased it, and installed it on to my laptop and WOW. Booting up my laptop takes seconds now and it quickly responds to any tasks i throw it at now. Overall it's a great investment if you're looking to upgrade your storage and make your PC faster.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great NVMe drive
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
So far so good, I purchase 5, and have implemented 3, which seem to be doing a lot better performance wise than the last drive, no contest.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Speed
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Price
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Best gen4 Nvme
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
The price is on top compared to other gen4 Nvme drives, but the quality is also on the top side. I picked it since I want my OS and applications to have the best home. If you have the budge, get 980 pro, it will serve well long time.
To copy from the old drive, I used Macrium Reflect Free to copy the partitions whole, and used AOMEI Partition Assistant to resize them. Painless migration.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Excellent buy
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Posted . Owned for 2 months when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Very good features, especially for use of the operating system on high-performance computers. So far I am very happy with how it works
I would recommend this to a friend
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Performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Fast and strong
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Super fast read write speeds, and reliability, haven't had a Samsung drive fail me in the 6 years I've been building pc
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Speed, Ssd
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Samsung... Does you right.
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Great thing about Samsung, they make all their parts for their SSD's, unlike other companies who will sometimes try to cheap out on certain parts on their SSD's. This also means a more stable SSD since the memory, controller, etc. are all Samsung.
Now to the more important stuff, Gen 4 equals supa dupa fast! Buy it..... Buy it now... But only if you have a Gen 4 capable mobo.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Speed
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Fast speeds
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Used for my OS and i havent been disappointed. Fast speeds with reliability you cant beat.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
SSD Review
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Posted . Owned for 1.5 years when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Great SSD, perfect size for a C drive, doesn't have latency issues or data transfer problems.