Amazon.com: Customer reviews: Samsung MZ-V7S1T0BW

Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2019

Using the Samsung Magician downloaded software, I was getting 3,520MBps Read and 3,322MBps Write speeds.
Installing the drive was very simple. You WILL need an M.2 NVMe screw, which should have been supplied with the newer motherboards, which have M.2 NVMe slots. The 970 EVO Plus did NOT supply a screw. My over all computing experience seems more responsive, as compared to the 860 EVO with advertised Max. 550MBps Read, and 520MBps Write speeds. I do not know how easy the installation would be, with a fresh install of Windows 10 or another operating system.

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V. Westerband

It works great. Boots faster than my old solid state 860 SSD pro.

Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2019

I thought my last solid state hard drive had died. Turned out the software was just corrupt, so my computer would not boot. I had an M.2 slot, and thought I'd give it a try. Once I figured out how to install windows on the thing(and boy, was that a pain), and make it properly boot, it worked like a charm. No issues at all. Runs fast and stable.

I've had it for months, without a single issue.

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wiconsumer

WARNING - Not for MacBook Pro Retrofits

Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2019

I purchased this for a 2015 MacBook Pro. I have been unable to find an adapter that supports the 970 EVO PLUS specifically. Most adapters I have run into explicitly do not support the PLUS models or just don't work. I don't know if this is a software issue on the drive or the adapters, but avoid the PLUS models for MacBook upgrades and stick with the older versions.

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👍👍👍

Reviewed in Poland on January 14, 2024

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Bardzo dobry i szybki SSD

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chrichri

Correspondance parfaite avec la description

Reviewed in Belgium on April 12, 2024

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Parfait et super correct, correspond en tout point a la description et fonctionne parfaitement bien et bien emballer

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Hans-Eric Andersson

SSD Hard Drive

Reviewed in Sweden on April 4, 2024

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No problems.

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Floor

Gewoon goed

Reviewed in the Netherlands on April 8, 2024

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Werkt nu (2,5 jaar later) nog steeds goed.

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Gerardo Vidales Villicaãa

Todo bien

Reviewed in Mexico on October 14, 2023

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Todo bien, de momento me ha funcionado sin problemas, en un mes compartiré mi sentir con el artículo

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Mannu

Top performing M.2 NVMe SSD drives

Reviewed in India on December 24, 2020

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Samsung's 970 Evo Plus M.2 NVMe SSDs are close to legendary performers at the sharp end of M.2 NVMe SSD performance charts. I was waiting for a long time to experience the performance of these drives first hand. The opportunity came when I purchased a new Dell G3 3500 (2020) Gaming Laptop with the following specs: i7-10750H, 1660Ti 6GB graphics, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB NVMe SSD, 15.6 inch 120Hz screen. The laptop by default has pretty decent specifications. But, when I was pushing through my workload, I could see it struggling.

The RAM was the first to get upgraded to 32 GB (Hyper X running at 2933 MHz @ 17-19-19). This gave a good jump in performance. However, the slower M.2 NVMe SSD (DRAM-less Kioxia) was creating a bottleneck which was becoming quite obvious. Additionally, I was getting tired of hauling a portable SSD drive connected to my laptop that had all my files and data on it. When I saw an special offer on Amazon for the 970 Evo Plus 1 TB, I had to get 2 of them.

Before installing the drives, I switched from the RAID to AHCI SATA mode on my laptop. [There are various resources online showing how to do this safely]. I installed the Samsung Magician software and Samsung NVMe drivers.
The drives are easy to install. In my case, I had to remove the original SSD and install the 970 EVO Plus in its place.
I used a cloning software (not the one Samsung provides) to clone my System drive to one of the 970. Then I booted up the system from the 970 after removing the old SSD. The boot time reduced from about 7-10 seconds (from the Dell logo to Windows login screen) to about 3-5 seconds. This was just a taster of things to come.

These drives are outrageously quick. Data transfers, load times of software and games, everything happens blazing fast. Seeing the performance numbers and charts is one thing, experiencing the fast performance first hand is another.

And then the drives rode away to glory....... Well, not quite. On just the third day after installing, one of the drives died. It wouldn't allow my laptop to boot. It was painful to see it happen and I was looking at a big loss. Fortunately, I was able to return the drive and buy a new one for the same special price on the same day. That was just pure luck!

Now when the new drive arrived, I noticed something peculiar. Both drives which I had received the first time were made in Korea. But the drive I got the second time was made in China. I was in two minds - should I use it or return it? Checking the information on the box and verifying the serial number on Samsung's website revealed that the product was indeed genuine. That was half a relief. Now I wanted to know if the drives performed the same or different.

This is what I have found by using the drives over a month. Both drives read and write performance is nearly identical (within margin of error). The "Normal" working temperature of the made in Korea drive is between 45 - 50 degree C; whereas the "Normal" working temperature of the made in China drive is between 38 - 42 C.
The other thing I noticed was that both drives hit the peak temperature mark during benchmark tests around the same time and the peak temperature was also the same - 85 degree C. But for some reason, the made in China drive came back quicker to a "Normal" temperature than the made in Korea drive.
Strange! It may also be that the made in Korea drive gets written to more often as it is my System Drive. But it's not a convincing enough reason for me.
In short, the important thing is to make sure that the drive is genuine (by checking on Samsung's website) than where it is made. Samsung does a stellar job on Quality Control in my opinion.

Update after more than 1 month of usage:
The drives were running longer in the higher range of "Normal" to "High" during normal usage. Even though my daily work does not involve heavy write activity to the drives, working on a remote server was causing a lot of writes to the drives. I decided to install copper heatsinks on the drives to try and keep the temperatures in the "Normal" range.
The results after installing the heatsink were astounding. (See photo). After this experience, I would recommend using a heatsink with these drives for anyone who intends to make full use of the capabilities of this drive.

Samsung chose to base it's newer 980 Pro drives on the 970 Evo Plus than the 970 Pro. This should be proof enough for everyone about the potential of the 970 Evo Plus. Legend!