Samsung 980 Pro Solid State Drive

Replaced my 500GB Samsung 970 Pro with this 1TB Samsung 980 Pro. Using Samsung's Magician software, I was able to quickly and easily clone my C: drive (boot drive) without any issue whatsoever. I have been using Samsung M.2 drives for many years. Just an all around excellent product and installion process. I highly recommend.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Samsung's move to the SSD market was met with an massive market appeal. They have proven generation after generation especially now in their 980 Pro Series to be serious about keeping their reputation solidified. I took a few benchmarks of my current drive and then took those same benchmarks after upgrading to the Samsung 980 Pro. I started off by cloning using a 3rd party software. Worked perfect took those benchmarks. Then I reformatted the drive and used the Samsung Data Migration tool to clone the drive over. This tool is nice because you can start the clone from within Windows. Very easy to use if you've never cloned a drive. The only negative with this since you are using windows it will take much longer to clone. I have been using the drive every day now for both working from home and personal use on my home workstation and it's been rock solid and has shown a visible increase in performance. So many times hardware upgrades for business use doesn't show much in the ways of time speeds, but not the case with this drive. What is even more amazing is that my motherboard can't even do the max speeds the drive can handle and with that I still had performance gains of up to 3x faster in some benchmarks. Install of the M2. Type of drives for my motherboard design was interesting because they have it right below the video card slots, poor design of my board, but it was super easy. I installed the drive within 5 mins. Finally packaging that it was shipped in was solid and gave me confidence that it would be well protected during transport.

This is the 2nd Samsung 980 Pro Drive bought one for the PC and one for the PS5. Dont have any complaints. Samsung has always been my goto for SSD Drives

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] The Samsung 980 Pro Gaming SSD is a speed monster. The Samsung 980 Pro is a perfect addition to any gaming laptop or computer where you want fast response times and maximum performance! The SSD is a PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 drive, so to experience its full speed, you need a fourth generation PCI slot, preferably at least 4 channels 4x4, but 4x2 also works. Putting the drive in an older generation slot will inhibit its full speed, but you may still see improvements over your old drive. You can further customize the drive with Samsung's Wizard software (free), and Samsung also offers a convenient and effective SSD cloning tool called Samsung Data Transfer (free) to copy the data from your old drive to your new drive in a few simple steps. The software is available for download on Samsung's website. The software tools further unlock the drive's potential by optimizing, allowing encryption, and setting up an overprocessing buffer space to help extend the life of the SSD drive. If you have the right PCIe slot It's definitely worth the money to upgrade to his drive, especially if you're a gamer. Everything responds much faster with this drive, even non-gaming applications. I have never had a bad experience with Samsung's memory devices. Go for it. You won’t regret it.

Item worked for cloning a Samsung Pro 980 1TB drive. But item had been used. Box was not sealed and it was missing USB cable.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] This is the best and fastest drive I have ever had by far. Replaced my generic Samsung NVME with the new 512gb 980 Pro in minutes! Using Samsung’s excellent cloning software, I cloned my existing NVME to the new 880 Pro and replaced it, booting up using the new 880 Pro with Windows booting up in mere seconds. Literally took maybe 10 minutes total! Technology sure has come a long way from the old days. I’m actually seeing double the write performance for the 980 Pro over the generic Samsung NVME I've been using. The new PCIe Gen4 x4 NVMe 1.3 interface is quoted to deliver some very impressive numbers. Samsung indicates that the 980 Pro can reach up to an unprecedented 7GB/s in sequential read and 5GB/s in sequential write. Random reads and writes have the potential to hit the million IOPS mark in throughput (at Q32T16). Though this quoted performance from Samsung is very exciting, users will need a compatible system to reach these numbers. Moreover, both the Xbox Series X and PS5 will feature PCIe 4.0 compatibility for those who want the most out of their next-gen console. Hardcore gamers will certainly be looking for more options in the near future (specifically the PS5, which indicates support for 3rd-party NVMe PC drives). That said, consoles use custom hardware and components, so it’s really hard to anticipate how non-propriety drives will perform in these next-gen consoles. I absolutely love the performance of my new drive and most likely will purchase an additional one once PS5 becomes compatible with it. Definitely recommend it if you're looking for the very best!

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] The new Samsung 980 Pro 500GB NVMe gaming drive is the best storage option for gaming and productivity purposes. Installation was a breeze. I replaced my much slower SATA drive with the new Samsung drive, and I noticed the difference instantly. My Windows boot time drastically improved and the overall speed of navigating and gaming made my CPU feel brand new. I am really impressed with this drive, as my loads times are greatly reduced now. Next I would suggest downloading the Samsung Magician software which gives in-depth analysis and allows you to monitor the drive's health. This is a must have and I'm glad that Samsung included this software with the purchase of the drive. Samsung did not disappoint with the new Samsung 980 Pro. You will not go back once you experience the speed of PCIe 4.0. This drive takes gaming to the next level literally. I recommend this product as a must buy.

I cloned my Samsung 980 Pro OS Boot drive using Macrium Reflect, and found no boot issues with the 990 Pro. It is fast, and is compatible with Samsung Magician. What's not to like?

It's fast and easy to install. I just did an image backup of my old drive, a Samsung 980 pro, that was having issues and swapped it out with this one and did a restore. It booted right up and I downloaded and installed the Western Digital Software. It has be working great ever since.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I used this 980 Pro SSD to upgrade the hard drive in my son PC. I figured it will be a big performance improvement since the drive in his PC was a Samsung 860 EVO SATA III and this one is PCIe 4.0 NVMe m2 drive. I cloned the Samsung 860 SSD and no problem encountered; Removed the old drive and installed the 980 Pro drive. I was impressed with the improved performance. Boot up time, opening applications, disk related activities were much faster. I ran a quick benchmark of the Samsung 860 and Samsung 980 Pro using CrystalDiskMark and the differences was 6-7 times faster. Since this computer doesn’t support PCIe 4.0, I imagine this 980 Pro SSD will perform even better with PCIe 4.0 interface. This drive is gear toward power users or gaming pc.