Customer Ratings & Reviews

I'm no stranger to PC components, installing, etc. been building PCs for almost 30 years. When I first installed the SSD and booted the PS5 it hung on the PS logo screen then eventually went to a black. I booted into safe mode, tried several of the options and ultimately had to choose to reinstall the PS software via USB drive. That fixed it. No big deal but it did happen and I don't know why. Just a tip in case it happens to you. Anyway, onto this drive. I had read that many(all?) people have had to update the firmware to get the proper speed. I'm one of them. It had read around 5500MB/s when first installed. After the firmware update it measured over 6500MB/s. Very acceptable considering it's claimed UP TO 7000MB/s. One IMPORTANT thing about updating the SSD, which by the way you must use a PC to do, you can't use a SSD USB adapter to connect it to the PC. The Samsung software will not give you the option to update unless it's directly interfaced with your PC. Bottom line: you'll most likely need to update the firmware if you purchase this anytime soon, but once it's taken care of it's a great drive, loads just as fast/faster than the SSD in the PS5(which is super fast itself), and has a competitive price.

If you’re looking for an SSD that’s ready to be installed into your PlayStation 5 without hassle or concern—then let me cut to the chase, the Samsung 980 Pro 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD is a great option that will perform well on the PS5, but it is not inherently the best value option. UNBOXING: Inside the box, you’ll find minimal packaging with the SSD and Heatsink preinstalled for your convenience. Additionally, you’ll find an installation guide and warranty booklet included. FIRMWARE UPDATE: Prior to me setting up with the PS5, I was made aware that the Samsung 980 Pro had a firmware update that I should install because previous firmware versions yielded suboptimal performance. In order to accomplish this, I had to install it into a m.2 slot on my computer motherboard and run the Samsung Magician application which found a firmware update for the drive. I ran the firmware update, restarted the computer, and verified the new version number (4B2QGXA7) and that no other updates were available. It should be noted that this is only possible on a Windows operating system. If for some reason you do not have an additional slot to perform this firmware update on the SSD, you CANNOT use an external USB m.2 enclosure because it will not be recognized within Samsung Magician as the 980 Pro. So you may want to consider other avenues. I just don’t think this will be a good experience if you don’t have any experience doing this kind of thing. SET UP WITH PS5: To set up the 980 Pro with your PlayStation 5, you need a smaller precision screwdriver kit. I advise you to look at the instructions provided by Sony, but it was very easy to fully turn off the PS5, remove from power, remove the bottom white panel of the PS5, unscrew the SSD access bay, re-locate the mounting screw, install & screw in the SSD, then re-secure the access bay and reattach the panel. Once that was done, I booted up the PS5 and it prompted me to format the SSD before I could continue. Once I formatted it, it automatically ran a speed test and achieved a read speed of 6,477 MB/s. Which certainly meets Sony’s minimum requirements. HEATSINK: In terms of the build, you have a compact heatsink that encases the SSD. Sandwiched between the heatsink and the SSD is thermal interface padding to help reduce any air gaps that would and to optimize for best thermal transfer from the actual flash memory chips and memory controller to the heatsink. From what I can tell, the heatsink design should transfer heat well. I unfortunately don’t have any sort of thermal probe to verify the differences with the heatsink on and off, but there are a number of videos online demonstrating that the heatsink is recommended because these SSDs tend to produce a lot of heat especially if they’re under load. So different games will have different read & write demands from the SSD—with the more graphically intense games more often requiring much more data transfer to and from the SSD. Without this heatsink, the SSD may overheat and thus cause longer loading times, potential performance issues, and reduce overall lifespan of the SSD. PERFORMANCE: Sony recommends upgrading your PS5 with a PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD with a read speed of 5,500MB/s or faster. Since Sony doesn’t specify anything about write speed since it’s less of an issue during gameplay. It seems as though drives with slower write speeds would still work as long as its read speed is near Sony’s recommended target. Samsung rates the 980 Pro 1TB at 7,000 MB/s read and 5,000 MB/s write on a computer—which is enough for the PS5. In my testing, the PS5 yielded 6,477 MB/s read speed. With all that being said, with my time playing games like Ratchet & Clank, Ghost of Tsushima, Final Fantasy VII Remake & Sackboy Adventure, I did not experience any noteworthy difference between the onboard SSD of the PS5 compared to the Samsung 980 Pro, which is a good thing. Once installed, it’s a seamless experience. For the price that you’re paying, however, I do think many other great alternatives have released that will achieve the same functional results for less money—namely the XPG GAMMIX S70 Blade 1TB (the Blade variant uses a slim heatsink that fits in the SSD bay of the PS5) and the lesser PNY CS3040 1TB (you’ll want to purchase a different PS5-compatible heatsink because the one that is included on some variants is too tall). So just be sure to check your sale pricing and see what best fits your needs. That being said, there is always the possibility that firmware updates may still be required for any of these drives. CONCLUSION: Overall, I do think the Samsung 980 Pro 1TB is a good SSD expansion solution for the PlayStation 5. It exceeds the recommended specifications, and also makes installation easy with a compatible heatsink that will fit in the SSD bay, whereas some other SSDs have heatsinks that are too large to fit in the bay. The one real kicker is that Samsung launched the 980 Pro with some major performance bugs that were ironed out via a firmware update. At this time, there is no guarantee that you will purchase a unit that is fully up-to-date, and the update process isn’t trivial if you aren’t relatively tech savvy, or don’t have the proper computer hardware running Windows.

Love this product as I am able to store a lot of games and not bog down my PS5. Installation is not hard at all, but be careful to not screw up any inside components while the device is opened.

While the Samsung 980 Pro is not the fastest Gen4 NVMe Solid State Drive (SSD), it is still an elite performer, leading the pack in random read performance -- where we want it most, though it does lag behind most SSDs in random writes. Perhaps more importantly, this new model comes with a heat sink that is quite effective and beautifully designed and is perfect for PC, and especially a PS5 as it meets Sony's stated requirements and still cools the SSD effectively. For PC applications, the 980 Pro is unique in that Samsung provides software that allows you to me firmware level changes which allows you to change between performance and cooling modes. If there was a 4.5 Star rating, the Samsung 980 Pro solidly rates there, with top marks for quality and features. Performance would rank a solid 4.5, with value the lowest mark of 4. It certainly isn't the cheapest Gen4 SSD around, but then again you often get what you pay for.

So the PS5 has maybe 650gb of usable space to install games, which quickly runs out with AAA titles weighing in at about 125gb. It took maybe two minutes to install this SSD in the spare SSD slot and maybe another minute of two to walk through the PS5 formatting process, no fuss no muss. Games on this SSD load and play just like anything on the base drive and you have two and a half times your original install space with the 1TB model.

Samsung 980 Pro with Heatsink I love gaming across all genres. Fighting, shooters, RPGs, Pixel Art platformers, etc. This means that I have a varied collection of games. However, the default SSD in my PS5 doesn’t allow me to store all those games (both digital and physical) in my system. This means that I have to pick and choose what stays and what needs to be deleted all because I haven’t played it in the last two weeks. And I think that we’ve all been in that situation where we delete a game because Call of Duty Warzone has an update that takes up room. We delete said game but then a week or so later, we have a craving to play the game we deleted which leads us to delete another game just so we can re-install the previous game. It goes on and on. Sure, there’s the option to use an external hard drive for the PS5 but that merely stores the games but doesn’t allow them to be utilized by the fast speeds of the PS5. I looked into SSDs but most required me to purchase a heatsink separately and from there, I would have to cut and apply Thermo pads to the Heatsink unit. When I learned that Samsung released their 980 Pro with Heatsink, I got excited to install it into my PlayStation 5. It’s Ready to Go: The 980 Pro with Heatsink is ready to be installed into your PS5 immediately. There’s nothing to snap or stick together. Just push it out of its casing and be ready to insert it into your PS5. Installation: Opening your PS5 isn’t difficult. I HIGHLY suggest that you look up YouTube videos on how to install an SSD with Heatsink into your PS5. I watched the official PlayStation video on how to install and it’s easy. Setup: Once the 980 Pro is installed, the PS5 system will detect the new SSD and ask you if you want to format it. Formatting doesn’t take long at all. Once that is done, you can choose how you want to use the new 980 Pro. For example, you can choose to only have PS4 games to be installed on the 980 Pro. It’s up to you. No matter what your decision is, you can still manually select a game and move it to either your original SSD or the 980 Pro. It’s simple. If you do decide to transfer a game to the 980 Pro, it only takes seconds. Games like Demon’s Souls and Guardians of the Galaxy only took about 30 seconds to transfer 30GB to the 980 Pro. Performance: One of the awesome features of the PS5 is how quickly it can load games like Demon’s Souls, Ratchet and Clank, Spider-Man Remastered, Final Fantasy VII Remake, etc. The load times for the aforementioned games are nearly non-existent as they had been using the initial PS5 SSD! Space to Game: It’s a relief knowing that I won’t have to make the weighed decision as to what game needs to go on a whim for the foreseeable future. If I want to update a game that requires several GB of memory then I can easily allow it without the dreaded pop-up message ‘that there isn’t enough space required’. I am very pleased with the Samsung 980 Pro with Heatsink and I believe that you or the gamer in your life will be as well.

Good buy. I bought this to expand the internal storage of my PS5. 100% satisfied straightforward, simple installation and excellent performance (even slightly superior performance compared to the main internal drive that came factory-installed in the console)

Works great!! Exactly what I was looking for! Great storage for a great price!

What an incredible drive! If you have a motherboard with PCIe 4.0 this is the drive to get. It’s about as fast as you can get – clocking in the mid to high 6GB/s range for reads and about 5GB/s for writes. I’m running it with a Ryzen9 3900XT and 32GBs of G.Skill Trident Z memory. Installation was easy but it should be noted that the although the heatsink is removable, a sticker across the seam says, “warranty void if removed”. This may be a problem for some motherboards that use an integrated heatshield. Both of mine are removable and removing them doesn’t ruin the esthetic. However, I could totally see a scenario where you’d want to remove the shield and use the one included with your board. Not a deal breaker for me, but something to be weary of if using on a PC. From what I’ve seen this seems to be a non-issue with the PS5.

Great Price and Great Quality. I use this for my PS5 and it is working out great.

I think you cant beat it for $70, already has a heatsink installed and went right into my ps5 no issues, my ps5 said it was running about 6,780mbs, just wish the 2tb option was a little cheaper, but the 1tb along with internal storage and an external 2.5 sata ssd is plenty of space

INTRO The Samsung 980 Pro with heatsink is Samsung’s latest entry into the world of PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drives. Until now, all their previous drives have been PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe or SATA drives. PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe promises throughputs over 2x the prior 3.0 x4 protocols. The Samsung 980 Pro can reach read speeds up to 7000MB/s and write speeds up to 5100 MB/s. Blazingly fast to say the least. With this being a true PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe drive, it is compatible not only with PC’s, but also the new PS5. The PS5 requires a drive capable of supporting speeds up to 5000 MB/s to be used a primary game storage drive and still achieve next gen graphics. This 980 easily fulfills those requirements. The addition of an integrated heatsink ensures the drive remains cool, thereby providing consistent read/write speeds throughout its workload or gaming sessions. For those concerned, the 980 Pro is also fully backwards compatible with the older PCIe 3.0 x4 interface too. SYSTEM CONFIGURATION My test rig is an HP Omen. It has an Intel Core i7-9700 8 Core Processor (Liquid Cooled), 32GB of DDR4 RAM, and an nVidia GTX 1660Ti graphics card. The HP has 1 PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe controller which will prove to be the limiting factor in the benchmarks. After installing the drive, I proceeded to install a fresh copy of Windows 11, all the latest updates from Microsoft, including drivers, and the Samsung Magician software. After a full installation, the Magician software informed me of a necessary firmware update for the 980. Fingers crossed, I updated the drive and the computer shut off. Hoping for the best, I powered the computer back on and received a disk error and windows had to complete a disk check to boot. Fortunately, everything seemed to check out fine and I have experienced no further errors yet. The 980 is extremely fast! The limiting factor in the drive’s performance is the PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe interface of my HP. Even with the prior generation’s specs, the HP managed impressive results. Using the Samsung Magician benchmarking software, I recorded speeds as follows: Sequential Read: 3559 MB/s Sequential Write: 3410 MB/s Random Read: 735351 IOPS Random Write: 349365 IOPS Excellent performance is an understatement. This drive is speedy and responsive. SOFTWARE The Samsung Magician software is the gold standard for drive monitoring software. I have NVMe drives from numerous other vendors including: SK Hynix, ADATA, SanDisk and Western Digital and no software is more polished and comprehensive than Samsung’s. The Magician software is intuitive and allows for one-stop SSD management from temperature information to hardware-based encryption. Excellent work Samsung. I commend you on an excellent piece of free software. NEGATIVES After doing some reading up on the 980 on the Samsung website, I noticed there were several items that are bragged about on their other drives (older Pros and lesser model Evo’s) that seem hard to find on the Samsung site. After doing some digging, I can see why. Samsung Pros have always represented the pinnacle of Samsung’s hard drive business. They were special drives that used uncommon 2-bit MLC memory and had endurance ratings far greater than any other models Samsung or their competitors offered. 2-bit memory was the memory that all other SSD’s looked up to. Very few drives offered it as an option, especially at the price point Samsung did. Not only that, 2-bit MLC memory is rated up to twice the endurance of TLC NAND memory. In a decision I can only guess is to save costs, Samsung has bestowed the same memory on their new pro models that I have in my inferior EVO and EVO Plus drives. Because of this, the endurance rating of the 980 PRO is now ½ of what it was with the 970 PRO. The new 980 offers and endurance rating of 600TBW, the same as my EVO 970’s. This seems like a huge step back for the consumer. FINAL THOUGHTS Should this have used the old Pro’s 2-bit NAND memory, it would be an absolute no-brainer, must have drive. Using 3-bit TLC NAND memory lowers the endurance rating and tarnishes the Pro’s halo. Samsung has long been considered the premier tier in SSD manufacturers. Read any publication or webpage and there is a never ending supply of Samsung kudos and accolades for their drives. While this Pro is awesome, it is not what the original Pros were.

Perfect for the PS5 to add much needed storage. Easy install and the PS5 recognized it immediately and formatted with no problems. Hopefully being Samsung, it will last a long time with no issues. Much better than an external hard drive even though not as much storage capacity for the $$. Best part is you can store PS5 games on it and play them immediately instead of using an external hard drive where you have to transfer the PS5 game from the external drive to the PS5 to play.

Purchased this for my PS5 to store additional games and saved clips. So far so good, runs fast, no need to worry about uninstalling a game to make room. Installation was a breeze following online guides, nice having heatsink already built in.

I was super excited to receive this Samsung 980 PRO with Heatsink NVMe M.2 SSD to expand the storage space in my gaming laptop. However, I was not able to use this since my laptop is thin and this SSD with Heatsink is larger than what will fit in my laptop. I had to use it in my desktop PC instead, so all was not lost. I am happy to report that this SSD preforms great for my gaming needs. Temperature of the SSD at its peak got up to around 50 degrees C and normal temp was around 30 C. Read / write speed according to CrystalDiskMark has this running at just under the advertised speed of 7,000 MB/s, I clocked it at 6,701 MB/s in the 1 GiB test for read and 4903 MB/s in the write speed. Not the end of the world, and I consider it close enough for my likes. This was straight out of the box, and I did not check my computer manufacturer for any updates that may have improved the speed. I may do that later on down the road though. The heatsink itself seems very well built and appears to dissipate the heat as intended. I highly recommend this SSD for all of your needs and if you have a thin laptop that you want to install this in, there is a version w/o the heatsink that would be ideal for that situation.

Definitely recommend this to expand your PS five storage because without it you’re very limited on your storage you might download two games before you have to erase a game to install a new game so I would definitely recommend And it’s very easy to install. You just have to takeoff one side of your PS five panel unscrew a little door take out one screw slide the SSD in the screw on top of the SSD. Screw it back in put your panel back on your PS five and you’re all set no need to pay anyone to do this

Best option for the PlayStation 5, I'm really glad a made the right decision in getting this. I've had no issues with it and it works just as advertised or even better.

I recently upgraded my computer’s storage with the Samsung 1TB SSD, and I must say, it has been a game-changer! The speed and capacity of this SSD have exceeded my expectations, making it a worthwhile investment for anyone seeking to enhance their computer’s performance. The installation process was seamless, and Samsung’s included software made migrating my data a breeze. Within minutes, I had transferred all my files, and the SSD was ready to go. From the moment I booted up my computer, I noticed an immediate improvement in loading times and responsiveness. The read and write speeds of this SSD are simply phenomenal. Large files and applications that used to take minutes to load now open almost instantly. It has breathed new life into my aging laptop, making it feel like a brand new machine. The 1TB storage capacity is more than enough for all my needs. I can store my extensive media library, software applications, and still have ample space for future projects. It’s a perfect balance between storage capacity and speed, offering the best of both worlds. What impressed me most is the reliability of this SSD. Samsung has a reputation for producing high-quality products, and this SSD is no exception. I have been using it for several months now, and it has performed flawlessly without any issues. Additionally, the design and build of the SSD are excellent. It feels solid and durable, giving me confidence that it can withstand everyday use and transportation without any worries. Samsung’s customer support has also been top-notch. They promptly responded to a minor query I had during the setup process, demonstrating their commitment to customer satisfaction. In conclusion, the Samsung 1TB SSD is a fantastic investment for anyone seeking to upgrade their computer’s storage and performance. With lightning-fast speeds, generous storage capacity, and reliable performance, it’s a top-notch choice for both casual users and professionals alike. I highly recommend it without hesitation!

I have a few of these now, across different devices (PS5, desktop, laptop) and I have had only great experiences. Performance is right on the money with the spec, and the temps have always been in nominal range. Price is very competitive, and only seems to go down over time. Definitely my NVMe drive of choice!

Got it cheaper on sale, makes it a no-brainer. Use for the PS5 to double the storage. Super easy to install.