Features:

  • Built with Samsung’s industry leading V-NAND technology for reliable and unrivaled performance
  • Read speeds up to 3,500MB/s* with a 5-year limited warranty and exceptional endurance up to 1,200 TBW* (* Varies by capacity)
  • Seamless cloning and file transfers with the Samsung Magician Software, the ideal SSD management solution for performance optimization and data security with automatic firmware updates
  • Samsung’s Dynamic Thermal Guard reduces risk of overheating and minimizes performance drops
  • Operating Temperature 0 - 70 ℃ Operating Temperature.Reliability (MTBF):1.5 Million Hours Reliability (MTBF)
Great after installation

Very fast drive, works well once configured. Please make sure to download the Samsung driver for NVME support, and make sure Write Caching is Enable for optimum performance. Once I got the setting correct it worked great. Also if you need to clone your existing hard drive Samsung offers free cloning software that worked well, as well as the Samsung Magician to ensure the drive is performing as expected.

Simply Awesome Speed

I recently acquired the new MBP 15.4" and wanted to utilize its Thunderbolt 3 technology to the fullest and started looking around for a great external SSD. I settled on the TEKQ Rapide Thunderbolt 3 SSD and decided I want it maxed out in terms of performance so I took the plunge on this Samsung 970 PRO 1TB PCIe NVMe - M.2 to replace the TEKQ's internal SSD. Well, I'm truly blown away by the performance of this SSD. Samsung is definitely on the cutting edge with SSD. This thing smokes. I'm not a video/photo pro myself but do handle large media files for the company's marketing work which involves editing and shuttling of studio photos of products and demo videos. I also oversee operations so I don't want such work to slow me down in anyway. I can happily say that the TEKQ Rapide Thunderbolt 3 with this Samsung 970 PRO SSD is, by far, the best external SSD I've ever had the pleasure of using. I suppose it'll only get faster and better in the future but, for what I do, this is about as good as it gets. It feels and works as fast as my iMac 27" 5K and MBP's internal SSDs. An HD movie file transfers in a split second. I'm not a geek so I don't care to measure the speed using an app like Blackmagic. I can easily sense it while doing real life work and it makes me more productive. I have the HP P800 as well in the work office and it's great but the TEKQ with this Samsung SSD is a step above, even if we're talking a fragment of a second. Awesome stuff. I don't see myself outgrowing this SSD for a long time to come.

The Best NVMe SSD on the market

The Samsung 970 Pro 1TB NVMe SSD is the best SSD on the market today. With the revised Samsung pricing been 130 dollars less than the original MSRP this SSD is now a very very good value. When you look at the performance and advantages of the 970 Pro over the 970 EVO and other SSDs on the market it becomes very clear this SSD is the best. First of all, the type of NAND the 970 Pro uses is different than almost any other SSD on the market. While almost every SSD on the market is made of 3-bit 3D NAND, the 970 Pro uses the much better 2-bit MLC V-NAND. This NAND has several advantages over 3-bit 3D NAND, much better performance, much better endurance, more reliable and the most important one, doesn't slow down like 3-bit 3D NAND does. Samsung has 5 years warranty on this drive, has the best support in the business and when you look at the overall picture, the Samsung 970 Pro is well worth the extra money over the 970 EVO in my opinion. The experience by using this SSD is awesome. Your PC feels so fast and responsive. I highly recommend that if you can spend the extra 100 for the 970 Pro just do it. The advantages are very clear. This is a wonderful wonderful SSD. 10/10.

It doesn’t get any better than this!

This is the best and fastest drive I have ever had by far. Replaced my 250gb 960 evo with this new 512gb 970 Pro in literally minutes! Using Samsung’s excellent cloning software, I cloned the 960 to an old 840 Pro, replaced the 960 with the 970 and rebooted with the 840, then cloned the 840 to the 970. 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 970 Pro over the 960 evo. I’ve attached my first test on the new drive and have subsequently gotten even better results! What’s not to like? With the new lower price it is a steal.

5 year warranty, and as fast as you need

This little stick-of-gum sized piece of hardware blows my mind. I did a fresh install of Windows 10 Pro onto it in mere minutes, and the system boots in a few seconds. If you're not in the know here's a NOTE: Make sure your system is utilizing the new UEFI platform rather than the old BIOS platform to take full advantage of the latest tricknology and all of its advantages. This means your system drive (where you install Windows) will have a "GPT" Volume rather than a "MBR" Volume. You'll have to boot into your UEFI interface, and turn off "CSM" likely under BOOT Options before installing Windows or directly afterwards as well as when you update your UEFI/BIOS. It's good to double-check the CSM setting stays off whenever you add another storage drive as well. If you type "Disk Management" in Windows start menu search box, double click to open screen, right click on your system drive, select "Properties", and choose "Volumes" tab, you'll see either "GPT" or 'MBR" listed under "Partition Style". One last thing: Consider backing up your important stuff, and just fresh install your OP System making sure to use the UEFI/GPT platform; I've never had success converting an MBR System from the dark side over to the light side of the force unfortunately. But, I'm just a novice with little experience. 5 year warranty, and as fast as you need. Samsung is hard to beat.

Best M.2 memory and excellent value for money

Bought this to replace a 128GB M.2 drive in a gaming laptop. Samsung provide tools for cloning which worked well form. Cloned the existing 128GB drive to a Samsung EVO 850 then installed the 970 PRO driver (again, from Samsung). Finally cloned the EVO 850 back to the 970 PRO. Worked perfectly - the laptop immediately booted with no issues. Finally installed Samsung Magician which manages the health of the SSD and gives you plenty of warning when the drive is beginning to wear out (600TBW on the 512GB drive, 1200 on the 1GB drive). The 970 PRO is one of the last to offer MLC technology which equates to superior wear over TLC. There was a huge difference in boot-up times over the stock 128GB M.2 drive that came with the laptop (almost 50% faster) so make no mistake, this is a fast drive. Probably the only thing better would be Intel Octane (at a much higher price point)

For SFF PC Perfection

Have this in my ASUS ROG Strix X470-I SFF (small form factor) PC. 31-second boot time from a completely powerless pc, with 18-22 programs that start on start-up. 28-second complete restart cycle, again with 18-22 active programs on start-up. Because this is the highest rated PCIe NVMe - M.2 for consumers, of course, it makes everything I have ever owned before pale in comparison. I'll lastly say, I have zero regrets with the purchase. Highly recommend, especially to those who are interested in SFF computers. Ryzen 7 2700x IC Graphite Thermal Pad 40x40 ASUS ROG Strix X470-I Samsung 970 Pro 1TB PCIe NVME M.2 CORSAIR VENGEANCE RBG 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 3000 Mhz NH L12 - Noctua CPU Cooler SF Corsair 600w PSU 1080 TI FE Case: Louqe Ghost S1 MkII

Cloning software is excellent

This is an upgrade from my previous M.2 SSD. I did have to buy an adapter to plug the new M.2 SSD into the PCIe slot. Then I simply downloaded the data migration and NVME driver from Samsung. 15 Minutes later the drive was cloned. Then I swapped the SSD's and fired up computer. It worked perfectly. So simple and everything works great. Remember anytime you clone a drive you should expect some little things to be a problem. For example, I run some software that has dongle security keys. I had to fiddle with those a little to get things working again but all in all I spent a total of about 1 hour on this swap. Excellent job Samsung

Spectacular Performance!

I used this NVMe SSD with my dell inspiron 7000 series that had Core i7 8th generation processor and 8GB of RAM, I bought this NVMe SSD to replace the stock SATA which had only 256GB on it, and that was not enough for me, so I thought i will go for something high end to pump up the startup and shuddown speed too since i’m always on the move. The performance is outstanding, blazing fast and very stable at the same time, it unleashed the power of the core i7 processor. Great job Samsung, Bravo 👏👏👏

Super easy physical installation and lightening fast speeds

I was shocked at how easy this installation went; I was completely prepared to have to update my bios, pull my hair out, threaten the computer with a fiery death, etc... but it was super easy to find the m.2 slot on the motherboard (there is only one on my asus x299) and then I fired up the computer and opened disk management and got the drive setup; then I used the samsung magician software to optimize the drive and then the same software to clone my primary ssd boot drive; all went off without a hitch; didn't need to update my bios or anything; after cloning my boot drive I pulled that slow ssd out and am now using the m.2 as my primary boot and operating drive; Computer boot up is much quicker then before and autocad runs very fast utilizing this new drive; I work with sometimes very complicated cad drawings and drive/memory access speed is crucial to smooth operation; I highly recommend this drive but recommend you check your mother board before you buy to make sure you have a m.2 slot to plug it into;

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