Samsung 980 PRO 250GB Up to 6,400 MB/s PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 (2280) Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) (MZ-V8P250)

Hello Amazonians,My existing setup is as follows:Laptop: Legion y740 15inch with RTX2070 MaxQHDD: 1TB 2.5 inch (7mm) 7200rpm (stock)SSD: 128GB m.2 NVMe Pcie 2242 m+b key (stock) with Win10HomeWanted to upgrade both the:A.) existing 1TB 7200 rpm HDD as well as theB.) 128GB m.2 NVMe pcie SSDWith:A.) 2TB Samsung 870 EVO 2.5inch SATA SSDB.) 1TB Samsung 980 m.2 (2280) NVMe pcie SSD m key (for Win10 OS).As i only use the Lenovo Legion y740 15" for gaming purpose so with games having humongous download sizes, 1TB HDD was filling up faster (was left with only 250GB of 1TB space) and also the 7200rpm drive was real slow for game load times (waiting of 3-5 mins) for a game load.As of the current Gen, a NVMe pcie based m.2 SSD is the fastest drive in the market and Samsung 980 is the latest iteration from its new lineup of m.2.Ofcourse there are the PRO version m.2's as well but those are just out of budget and out of scope from a gaming/home use kind of scenarios unless one is into heavy video editing, designing and vfx purposes.Installing both the SSDs is fairly simple as just the screws are to be removed (follow your laptop manual for the same) and pop in these in their respective slots.A word of caution though: m.2 slot on the laptop/desktop motherboard are mostly "M Key" based (female notch placed at the right side of a m.2 SSD that goes into the male notch on the motherboard). Also, most laptop/desktop motherboards easily support varying lengths of m.2 SSDs like 2242 2260 and the longest 2280 (22 is the width in mm where as the last 2 numbers i.e. 42, 60 and 80 are the lengths in mm).Also, a 2.5 inch (7 mm or 9 mm) HDD/SSD enclosure can also be bought so that you can keep your old HDD/SSD as a portable HDD/SSD within the enclosure. I bought the transparent ORICO 2.5 mm model 2193U3 HDD/SSD enclosure (have reviewed that as well) and i keep my 7200 rpm 1TB HDD inside this enclosure after having it replaced with the 2TB Samsung 870 EVO.Likewise, there is also an enclosure for the m.2 NVME PCIE SSD available from the same brand, ORICO. Check it out at amazon.in as well.So, I made a BOOTABLE win10 usb (using the Windows Medial tool online) so that I can install the OS on the newly installed m.2 2280 ssd and the entire process took less than 30 mins from hardware installation to OS inatallation from USB to the new m.2 ssd.There is Less to No Comparison of Quality and Price of Samsung SSDs with other brands like Sabrent, Crucial, WD etc.Kindly like the review if it helped made your buying decision that much easier.Cheers and e-peace

THE READ N WRITE SPEED IS MENTIONED AS 3500/3000MBPS, BUT THE ACTUAL SPEED OF SSD-980 I AM GETTING IS ONLY WRITE = 700MBPS, READ = 850MBPS MAXX.....SO FINALLY MY POINT IS DON'T PURCHASE IT,THE DATA OF SAMSUNG 980 SSD WHICH IS MENTIONED IN ONLINE IS ABSOLUTELY WRONG, PLZ DONT PURCHASE IT....WATCH THE BELOW PICTURES FOR PROOF..

I brought this SSD on 13 March 2021 for Rs. 4199 for my Lenovo Ideapad 330s, which had become unbearably slow due to a terrible HDD that was just not capable enough of running it smoothly.The installation process was simple. Samsung's Data Migration software works like magic, and all you need to do is make sure that you're booting from your SSD.Note - Screw, which holds the SSD in place, isn't provided in the box, which every SSD selling company should provide by now. Feels weird that it isn't standard by now, but if you don't have spare laptop screws lying around your house like me, then it's definitely something to keep in mind.

Samsung recently switched their top prosumer line from MLC to TLC/3D NAND. They call it 3-bit MLC, which is exactly what TLC is. For those looking at higher endurance, the MLC-based 970 Pro is still the drive to get. Sequential writes are quicker on the old drive and a 1TB unit will have 1200TBW endurance as opposed to 600TBW for the 980 Pro.This means that durability of the 980 Pro is halved from the 970 PRO line, but it does mean that all 9xx series NVMe now have TLC. Therefore it makes very little sense to get this over the 970 EVO Plus, which runs the 980 Pro close. There are a few notable differences though.The PCIe 4.0 interface on the 980 Pro only offers an improvement in peak bandwidth. Controller optimisations are where you get drive speed differences from. Samsung moved the controller to the same 8nm node as the nVidia 30xx series GPUs, and thus offer much lower operating temperatures and better power efficiency. The 970 EVO+ in my system runs 105C without a heatsink and peak writes, the 980 PRO tops out at about 78C in the same conditions. I do use a heatsink but like to test stuff just the same.Most of the speed bumps over older lines and other drives come from the massive SLC cache, coupled with 1GB onboard DDR4 memory, you can get above 100GB of high-speed writing at a time. The new Elpis controller offers 4 times the number of queues per channel and as a result you can expect 22k IOPS at 4k QD1, which is staggering.But on the desktop, you hardly notice any of this. I upgraded to this from a Crucial P1, which is a QLC DRAM-less drive and is one of the slowest NVMe units ever created. The 980 Pro feels a bit snappier and game load times are down by about 30%, but when comparing 10 sec to 7 sec it basically makes no difference.Either the 970 EVO+ or the 980 (non-pro) would be good options. The latter has no DRAM buffer, so it begins to crawl once the SLC cache is full - after about 50GB. The EVO+ has a smaller SLC cache, but the DRAM buffer makes sure that you won't notice. The prime difference is when writing large datasets to the drive, or doing a drive fill.The price drop on the PRO line is a good move, but it comes with a stack of compromises. Samsung now has a crowded range with 4 choices between 10 and 20k, so you should choose what suits your needs the best. I feel my 970 EVO+ is actually the better value, and by quite a bit.

Die IOPS sind der eigentlich relevante Wert, denn was an einem Computer gemacht wird, sind so Dinge wie Programme starten, im Internet surfen etc. Das sind Tätigkeiten, die keine großen Daten bewegen, sondern viele sehr kleine.Im Gegensatz dazu ist der klassisch angegebene Read/Write Speed (3,5 GiB/s und mehr) ein Wert, der nur erreicht wird, wenn eine EINZELNE Datei verschoben wird. So ein Workload ist sehr untypisch und für viele Arbeitsszenarien ein irrelevanter Wert. Trotzdem wird komischerweise immer mit diesem geworben.Beim Kopieren vieler einzelner Dateien, also typischen Ordnern mit z.B. Bildern, Musik etc. komme ich weder mit der 970 EVO Plus noch mit der 980 Pro weit über 1 GiB/s raus. Hier zeigen beide SSDs ähnliche Performance.Im Vergleich zu einer 970 EVO Plus habe ich etwa 30% schnellere IOPS bekommen. Das ist - simpel gesagt - die Schreib/Leseleistung, wenn viele sehr kleine Dateien geschrieben werden.Wenn ich nun die 980 Pro an einen PCIe 3.0-Bus anschließe, erreiche ich zwar weiterhin nur maximale 3,5 GiB/s, die IOPS erhöhen sich aber trotzdem.In Anbetracht der Tatsache, dass die IOPS der einzig relevante und spürbare Parameter ist, sehe ich die Diskussion, ob eine 980 Pro an einen PCIe-4.0 Bus gehört, als rein akademisch an.Und wenn wir schonmal beim spüren sind: Selbst beim besten Willen konnte ich keinen Unterschied zwischen 970 EVO Plus und 980 Pro mehr erkennen. Problematisch ist, dass die 970 EVO Plus schon so dermaßen schnell ist, dass Programme im Millisekundenbereich öffnen. Ich kann es leider nicht mehr erkennen, ob ein Programm jetzt in 0,7 Sekunden oder in 0,9 Sekunden öffnet. Und selbst wenn, würde das für mich keinen Mehrwert bedeuten.Fazit: Die 980 Pro ist eine ganz fantastische M.2 SSD, die hält was sie verspricht. Ihr Hauptproblem ist, dass der Unterschied zur 970 EVO Plus nur noch im Labor bestimmt werden kann, denn die EVO Plus ist ebenfalls schon eine hervorragende SSD. Einen Unterschied erfühlen tut man bei den Karten nicht.Insofern kann eine 980 Pro ausschließlich Menschen empfohlen werden, denen Datenblattdaten wichtig ist (man nennt sie seit einiger Zeit Enthusiasten).Allen anderen sei wärmstens ans Herz gelegt, eine 970 EVO (Plus), 960 oder sogar nur eine 860 zu kaufen. Ich verspreche dir, einen Unterschied wirst du nicht merken.

I bought this for my PS5.I'm currently using the (PS5) beta firmware and one of the enabled features was the activation of the m.2 port. I wasn't lacking in available space as there is not a real lot of ps5 games released that actually interest me, I was getting by with my 4tb external drive and the stupidly small amount of internal SSD space on the console itself but I figured I would go ahead and buy a drive anyway.Sony recommend you attach a heatsink to your nvme drive if it doesn't come with one as standard,After looking at factory heatsink nvme drives specifically the WD-Black SN850 1tb, it became apparent you pay a heafty price on top for the heatsink, At the time of writing it was £150 for the 1tb WD black and £235 for the same drive with a heatsink attached, probably hiked in price due to a Sony guy tweeting it was his drive of choice.Anyway I decided to buy the 980-pro (this drive). It was marginally more than the SN850 and I'm presuming other people were showing interest as Amazon's price algorithm jumped from £176 to £188 (then back down to £179 immediately after I bought it).. thanks for that, just my luck.The heatsink I paired it with was the 'EZDIY-FAB M.2 2280 heatsink' (ASIN: B086X79CSN).£11.99 at the time of writing this.Installing the heatsink and installing the drive was really straight forward, it fits in the bay nice and snug and the cover screws back down fine.The drive installs (into the PS5) Samsung label/chip side up (facing you/installation door), so install the heatsink accordingly.I have a external harddrive for PS4 titles which I will continue to use.I moved all my ps5 titles from the console SSD to the m.2 and set the console to install to that drive from here on in.I have been playing pretty long and hard today and not noticed any laggy frames (apart from a little screen tearing on AC: Valhalla, which happened occasionally when using the built in SSD)Overall load times and performance is no different than the Sony SSD.I do think the prices are outrageous, £350/450 for 2tb and the best part of a grand for a 4tb, hopefully the prices will come down in time, but as demand increases (when the firmware goes public). It wouldn't surprise me if they get worse before they get better.The SN850 is a little cheaper (none heatsink) and maybe a better choice.Both drives offer the same limited warranty (5years or 600TB written, whichever comes first).I can't think of anything else to say, I should of taken a few pictures before I closed/plugged in my ps5. I will maybe open it up and take a few in the next few days..Edit: There seems to be misinformation floating around regarding the removal of the Samsung sticker, It's my opinion that you should not do this for two reasons..1. It's a thermal sticker designed to redistribute the heat, so it's only going to help the tape/heatsink.2. More importantly removing this will void your (Samsung) warranty.Of course in the end the choice is yours.Buy with confidence!I hope this review helps in some way.

Ich habe 1 TB im Warehouse 30 Eur billiger als Neu gekauft, die Ernüchterung kam nach dem einbauen. Samsung Programm (und auch andere), zeigten, dass die Karte bereits 20 Tag in Verwendung war und... 33 TB! an Schreibzyklen hatte (1/3 bis 1/4 Lebensdauer). Vermutlich wurde die für Mining der Kryptowährung Chia verwendet. Diese Methode ruiniert die SSD innerhalb Paar Monate durch extensives Schreiben großer Datenmengen.Amazon hat SSD problemlos zurückgenommen. An sich ist unverschämt, dass jemand die SSD "ausleiht", damit Mining betreibt und dann einfach zurückgibt und Geld wieder bekommt. Also weder Samsung noch Amazon sind schuld aber die unverschämte Zeitgenossen. Vorsicht bei Warehause SSDs.

Do read this before buying and do not forget to thank me if I helped you.The 980 Pro is (one of) the fastest drive you can buy right now with Gen4. That being said, this does not apply to the 250GB version. Especially the write speed are way worse than many cheaper Gen3 drives. 4800 for read (68% of advertised speed) and SHOCKINGLY low write speed of 593 (12% of advertised speeds)After a thorough research I found out that benchmarks are done on 1TB + versions.Confirmed by ordering a 1TB drive and testing that, that works almost as promised (93% of 7000+ read and 5000+ write), I can settle for that.See the benchmark results in pictures and go buy the 1TB version (or start saving for it).

Samsung Memorie MZ-V8V500 980 SSD, 500 GB, PCIe NVMe M.2==================================================[2021, settembre]Pagato circa 67 euro in versione 500 GB. Sarebbe tutto perfetto se non fosse che al primo ordine abbiamo ricevuto un oggetto CONTRAFFATTO.In una confezione immacolata abbiamo trovato un SSD SATA Hynix da 128 GB di colore verde con appiccicata sopra l'etichetta nera del Samsung MZ-V8V500 980. Veramente inspiegabile.Chiesta immediatamente la sostituzione, abbiamo ricevuto l'articolo originale e tutto è andato bene.Bello e funziona anche bene.AVVERTENZA: Visto l'accaduto, è consigliabile verificare le specifiche (nome, capacità, etc.) dell'SSD anche dalla gestione dispositivi o tramite il software Samsung Magician e, ove possibile, verificare anche il numero di serie col produttore.[2021, ottobre] AGGIORNAMENTO...Essendo parte interessata, abbiamo chiesto spiegazioni ad Amazon sulla questione dell'oggetto contraffatto ricevuto.Dopo lunga attesa e diverse richieste in pratica ci hanno detto che non è affare nostro.Tenetelo a mente quando vi dicono di essere i più attenti ai clienti.