Samsung Surface Laptop Generation 1

the 2nd surface I'm buying - great laptop

1 stop is the right amount for me.

[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 perfectly fit in my (early generation) Dell X-51 to mount a Samsung 500G SSD. Solid, precise, strong (metal) product. Overall I was very pleased.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Samsung’s 980 PRO SSD has delivered my PC into the next generation of gaming and content creation. While I’ve previously owned an SSD, there’s a world of difference between a SATA drive and this NVMe SSD running on PCIe 4.0. With peak speeds reaching 6,900 MB/s, the 980 PRO won’t ever be the bottleneck slowing down my computer. Installation was as simple as inserting the SSD into an M.2 slot and securing with a single screw. The 980 PRO doesn’t include a heatsink, but even without one, the SSD’s firmware and thermal design do a great job at keeping the heat under control. The 980 PRO’s performance, temperature, security, and health are all easily monitored and configured through Samsung’s excellent (and free-to-download) Magician software. In use, the 980 PRO has proven both exciting and essential. Loading times are blissfully-short in games old and new. I’m always among the first to load into multiplayer lobbies, so my teammates never wait on me. Of course, this SSD’s benefits extend well beyond gaming. Windows boots up in a flash, browsing through thousands of photos is a breeze, and 4K video editing works fluidly, all thanks to never needing to wait on storage. Samsung warrants the 980 PRO for five years (or 300 TB written for the 500 GB SSD). My previous experience with Samsung SSDs suggests that I probably won’t ever invoke the warranty, but there’s great peace of mind in knowing that Samsung stands behind this drive for a long time. Overall, I highly recommend this SSD for gaming and beyond. With modern consoles now integrating their own high-speed SSDs, games will be both designed around and best experienced with high-performance storage. There’s no better way to bring your PC into the next generation than an upgrade to the Samsung 980 PRO.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Samsung 980 Pro NVMe SSD is the true next generation storage solution. I have been using some decent PCIe 3.0 NVMe SSDs, but when it is paired with my Ryzen 9 3900X and X570, this is a next leap forward in terms of speed; simply amazing performance. In my storage benchmark, it shows 6,708MB/s sequential read, and 4,874MB/s sequential write. So this is perfect option those who read and write big files from/to it. Only problem is that I could not find any games and software that can take full advantages of its raw speed. Well it's not Samsung 980 Pro SSD problem anyway. I highly recommend Samsung 980 Pro NVMe SSD for those who want to experience next generation PCIe 4.0 speed.

I have used several types of laptop computers, but Microsoft Surface Pro 7 is more than I expected :)

1/2 the price of local shops.

This is working great on my SAMSUNG FLIP 2 touch out to Microsoft Surface. Plug and play.

Matches my new cobalt blue Surface laptop.  Useful and fiunctional addition.