Customer Ratings & Reviews

Best Product Easy install Shipped fast and safe :)

Excellent download speeds , would highly recommend this product

Since the PS5 has next to no storage, you really need this.

Really good product, load into application way faster must buy best ssd on the market

Easy to install, transfer speeds are great. Easy cop on sale.

Very Good investment for my play station 5. 100%.

Got this for my playstation 5. This upgrade is a must have.

The speed is not what samsung is saying its slower downloads to where the ps5 gives u a heads up that ut mite not work on all ur games i would get it if u want one thats slower then advertised

Awesome games always great experience quality time

Excellent product and quality, highly recommended!

Works as advertised. I don't care for the heatsink. I would reccomend the model without the heatsink with an aftermarket heatsink.

Nice piece of hardware but the heatsink is a little on large side.

Had difficulty cloning windows 10. Clone refused to activate.

Kind of expensive forcan already expensive game system but works great

The speeds im getting isnt what was advertised, disappointing.

It works but not that fast like they put out their but I got lots of games so honestly should have not paid over 125$ for it it’s a lot of hype

This is a great little NVMe drive with tons of storage and speed. Samsung makes upgrading a system drive absolutely simple. Their Magician software can check the health, optimize the drive, and allow a person to clone a system drive as long as the source drive has an OS installed on it. If the source drive is encrypted, that must be suspended/turned off. Then the software gets to work. In my situation, my motherboard has 2 NVMe slots. I had about 189 GB on the system drive (one of multiple drives in the machine). Using the Magician software, it completely cloned the drive with that 189 GB in under 30 minutes. There were no errors. I removed the old drive, changed the boot drive in the bios, and it worked on the first try. I was immediately back in my computer as if nothing changed, except the main drive is even faster and larger than the previous drive. One of the many features of the Magician software is to allow people to choose an optimization feature that increases speed and the life of the drive, at a cost of about 10% of the storage capacity. I think it is a fair trade if it will extend the life of the drive. While 10% of 2 TB is a lot, I have enough capacity. Performance is my priority. Initially, I was a little nervous about how complex the installation would be with an integrated LED heatsink. The heatsink is fully attached to the drive. The LED lights are powered by the NVMe slot so there is no extra work/wiring to get the lights running. As with the rest of the features, the Magician software allows adjustments of the LEDs by both effect and color. It is just one little LED that lights up, so the lighting is not exactly spectacular, but it is one more thing to light up in my machine. The heat sink seems to do well at dissipating heat. As I write this, the drive temp is 85 F / 29 C with an ambient temperature of about 72 F in the room. That is definitely cooler than my last drive, but it is important to note that I have plenty of cooling in my computer in general. When it comes to performance, I used both the benchmark tool in the Magician software and a common user benchmark site. There was a significant difference in speed between the two testing programs. Samsung calculated a max read speed of 5332 MB/s and a write speed of 6926 MB/s. Despite multiple tests, the third-party benchmark program was slower at 1718 MB/s read and 2547 MB/s write. My motherboard is rated for up to about 8 GB/s so I am not sure who to believe. It is challenging to run any tests myself since the only perfect way to test performance is to send data from one drive to another identical or faster drive. My overall system performance improved in the third-party benchmark testing, so it seems to be making a difference. If upgrading from a SATA drive to NVMe, I highly recommend doing so. There was a dramatic improvement in my overall system performance when I did. I also am happy to have the added capacity because one of my other drives was filling up fast. This gives me plenty of room for expansion. I would not necessarily jump to upgrade for performance if a person already has an NVMe, going to a new NVMe. If upgrading from anything else, they will be thrilled they did.

Note: this drive initially shipped with a firmware that would cause damage to drive. do not install this drive as your primary OS drive. install this as a secondary drive, install the samsung software, update the drive firmware, and then go about your business. The 990pro is samsung's best consumer grade nvme range, and this is a nice fat 2tb version. Installation is super easy and the drive does what it's supposed to do. But the devil is in the details right. So this version comes with an included heatsink to make sure your drive maintains peak performance. Of course that's utter nonsense since NVME drives actually like to be warm (up to a point) and the average temps of a PCIE gen 4 NVME drive don't require additional cooling unless you're building in a very thermally restrictive environment. So in other words, that black and red hunk of metal doesn't do anything to increase performance. Or worsen it. It's purely decorative, but sadly carries a significant price premium over the standard version. Unless you're really into the black and red look, save yourself some money and get the one without the heatsink. I can't actually install this the way that I want at the moment in my system. My 4 PCIE gen 4 slots are all under a shared heatsink/metal shroud kind of thing, and the only slot that allows for large heatsinks is directly above the GPU, but that's a gen 5 slot. I tested the drive there and it works flawlessly (PCIE generations are fully backwards compatible so no worries) but when I populate that slot my PCIE lanes are halved for my GPU slot. There's a negligible performance hit, but it's there, in GPU performance so I'm using this in a USB-C enclosure. Aside from the heatsink and the stats, there's not much to say about this drive. That firmware issue is no joke though. Update your firmware immediately. There's a chance you'll have the older firmware which causes rapid aging of drive sectors, something that cannot be undone. Great drive overall, trapped in an ugly enclosure.

Promotes 7400 MBPS speed and after installation only reads about 6,500 . Very dissapointed

Just bought this 2 weeks ago during black friday. The reading and writing speed were amazing. As 2 days ago, my PS is restarting by it self and the games and apps installed in SSD are not showing on the main screen. Now it need 10 minutes to transfer a 100GB game.