Samsung - Geek Squad Certified Refurbished 980 PRO 1TB Internal SSD PCIe Gen 4 x4 NVMe

This is an excellent SSD, the non-heatsink vs. 980 Pro with heatsink, also directly installed into an M.2 slot on my laptop reads 3454 MB/s read and 3294MB/s write. The heatsink version has much lower speed than the 980 Pro without the heatsink, so I put it into my M.2 slot on the motherboard of my desktop, and it had speeds of 2603MB/s read and 3381MB/s write. (Pictures provided of results) I've seen forums where there are obviously faster SSD's which came out at around the same time as this drive, but they are much more expensive. Overall, for the price and the storage space, I like this drive, and having a BestBuy in the neighborhood is even more incentive to go pick one up. I bough this refurbished one for half the price of the new one ($50 I think, and the new one was $89.99) and it only had a few gigabytes written to it, so it was practically brand new. I am very happy with it so far, I need to reinstall Windows onto this drive on my laptop, as it's currently running a 2TB Seagate @ 5400rpm which is just criminal. (Photos are of the same 980 PRO but with heatsink, I didn't photograph the non-heatsink when installing it into my laptop, unfortunately, sorry, but it's the same thing, just no heatsink, fits nicely in a laptop M.2 drive) BIG HEADS UP! So, this is a BARE DRIVE, so it does not come with screws to affix it to the mounting posts on your motherboard, this was a pain in the donkey for me, as those screws are super rare and I resorted to removing a motherboard mounting screw to hold the SSD down. So be sure that you have extra motherboard-type screws on hand, I couldn't find any at Best Buy and I don't know where to get them, I guess China? Best of luck!

Excellent NVME SSD. I would suggest checking the drive in the Samsung Magician to make sure it has not been abused with tons of writes. A few Terabytes or less is fine. 10 Terabytes or higher is not. Mine showed 932GB written (see picture). For reference, after I set up a brand new laptop its drive showed 935GB written. So, this refurbished 980 Pro was barely used. Testing the SSD against a brand new 990 pro in the same laptop. The laptop is a brand new HP Omen 16.1 inch with an Intel 13700HX and an RTX 4060. The 980 Pro did pretty well. See the pictures of the test. The refurbished 980 Pro Crystal Disk score was also 9.6% better (overall) compared to the factory Western Digital (SN810) drive that came with the HP Omen laptop.

Simple install when bought for your build. Good speed and good amount of storage to install your games or other programs.