Samsung - Geek Squad Certified Refurbished 970 EVO Plus 1TB Internal SSD PCIe Gen 3 x4 NVMe for Laptops

The box is a little worn but the SSD works great and I haven't have a issue with it yet, hopefully it'll stay that way.

I was wary about buying a refurbished nvme ssd but didn't hesitate because I could buy a geek squad warranty with it so if anything went bad I could replace it or use the amount I paid for it and buy brand new, I love best buys geek squad warranty. I posted pictures of my built gaming pc comparing my first initial install 980 pro nvme to the refurbished 970 pro nvme of power on count/hours. So basically the refurbished 970 pro was brand new, I didn't keep track when I bought it to expand my hard drive memory as my 980 pro got full. Just for curiosity I downloaded Crystaldiskinfo to take a look at the refurbished 970 pro before I wrote this review and was amazed, I installed the 970 pro same day I bought it

Was thinking betwen new and sertified refurbished from BB. Came in a good condition. Only has around 650gb writes and 100% of life. Prrfect fit to my Lenovo T480

This was a Best Buy recommendation I got in an email. I got two of these at almost half price. The Discount was due to them being open box. When I ran disk utility they were both almost brand new. Got one as my boot drive, the other in a small enclosure for pocket sized data with the quickness.

Well fit. Well performing. No heat pad is one minor thing to consider

See attached image for crystaldisk info. YMMV but a basically new drive for a heavy discount.

It says 1 TB on the box, but it's only 465GB, and the logical sector size is only 512GB. It's so weird.

First of all gross it came with that nasty stuff out of box but still had to try it out And guess what it did not work w either my pc nor ps5