Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 1TB PCIe Gen 3 x4 NVMe Internal Solid State Drive with V-NAND Technology

System Alienware A51M (laptop) For everyone looking to upgrade or change to a good dependable drive, this is a great option with great speeds for everyday use and gaming. For those that have seen the review where the hard drive is not recognized, stay calm that just means that your system was pre-set with Raid and yes an option is to enable in bios and then have to re-install the OS but... you can do it through the command line without having to re-install OS. open CMD as admin type: bcdeit/set safeboot hit enter if successful, restart and then when bios pop up select achi and apply then when system re-starts in safe mode open cmd again and type: bcdedit/deletevalue safeboot hit enter and re-start and you should be good to go worked on my system and should be the same for any dell or Win10 system. Second and third image show that samsung magician is recognizing the drive as an NVME

Was building a new computer and have been using standard SSD drives forever. Didn’t pay attention to the details of the motherboard I purchase and during the build found it had M2 slots. Didn’t know what it was about so investigated and decided I would try this Samsung drive. The speed is astronomical and couldn’t be happier with my unexpected results. I have an older core i7 computer also and added a pcie card that allows the use of an nvme ssd and bought a 2nd one for this machine.

I installed this in a Dell Inspiron 15 3583, and its very fast. From power on, it takes about 3 seconds to get the Dell logo on screen, and then another 2 seconds to get to the Windows 10 lock screen. According to Samsung's "Magician" version 6.0.0, the benchmarked read speed was 3470 MB/s, and the write speed was 3285 MB/s. However, I was disappointed by the apparent lack of support for this product in Samsung's curernt software, at least on my new Dell laptop. Their version 3.2 drivers wouldn't install on my machine, and most of the features in Samsung's magician software didn't work, with an explanation that the selected SSD didn't support that feature. And for some reason, the Samsung Magician 6.0.0 identifies the SSD as just a "Samsung SSD 970", although Windows 10 knows it's a "Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB" On balance, if I knew then what I know now, I would have bought a somewhat slower but cheaper SSD.

highly recommended ! this is a awesome year for tech and to be a gamer! thnx Best Buy

Best SSD I have ever owned. Hands down, if you need an SSD upgrade, you cannot go wrong with this one. I recommend you download the software Samsung Magician, which is made for these type of SSDs, as well as 2.5 SSDs. I will attach a picture showing the speeds.

One of thee best Nvme m.2 you can get was on sale especially for custom pc building

The laptop and software starts-up in a short time. I was going to buy myself another laptop before using Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 1TB.

I needed more storage for games. I have the 2 500gb and was running low so was planning on getting another 500 but BestBuy had a sale on the 970's cause the 980's were out so went ahead I got this 1TB. Running on MSI Ace z390 MB.