Speed is the name of the game
Extremely fast SSD and very easy to install with the Samsung SSD Data Migration application.
It's child's play to clone your system disk and that's why I only buy Samsung SSDs.
Extremely fast SSD and very easy to install with the Samsung SSD Data Migration application.
It's child's play to clone your system disk and that's why I only buy Samsung SSDs.
What can I say, works perfectly, it's Samsung, mounted with Windows11, no worries, fast, reliable.
I repost my review because I was wrong with the 2Tb Mb one, so Real Banger to play Star Citizen in total it loads in 3min game loading + texture, for my first SSD it's nickel GGWP to Samsung
The performance of this SSD is top notch.
The performance of this SSD is top notch compared to the SATA SSD it replaces, a real leap forward, a little "wow" effect that I didn't expect, necessarily since I already have NVme on another machine.
The Samsung transfer software (Data Migration Tool - download on their website) is very efficient: the clone of my old disk was done in 3 clicks, my OS rebooted on the new disk without blinking. Note that the old disk is then put "offline" by Windows because of a signature conflict: you have to go to the disk manager to erase / format / put it back online.
My first M.2. installed on my desktop (Gigabyte GA-Z170X motherboard) with linux Mint works great!
I did not reinstall my system, I simply cloned my old Samsung SSD 840 EVO (sata) to the Samsung SSD 980 pro (NVMe M.2) with the "dd" command. And it worked perfectly.
I've had similar ssd's before, I have a crucial one on my laptop.
Where others are around 1500MB/s this one goes to 2220MB/s.
Not exactly cheap but worth it for the performance.
Installed on an Asus Prime B550-Plus (PCIE 4.0 slot, 4x), I have the following perfs on Crystal Disk Mark (in MB/s, Read / Write) :
SEQ1M / Q8T1 : 6911 / 4903
SEQ1M / Q1T1 : 4202 / 4230
RND4K / Q32T16: 3462 / 2489
RND4K / Q1T1: 88 / 195
It's in the ballpark compared to a test on Clubic for example. It's great for loading games as well as OS, I had taken a slap from HDD to SSD, a new one from normal SSD (SATA, Samsung 850 EVO) to M2 !