Samsung 980 SSD 1TB PCle 3.0x4, NVMe M.2 2280, Internal Solid State Drive, Storage for PC, Laptops, Gaming and More, HMB Technology, Intelligent Turbowrite, Speeds of up-to 3,500MB/s, MZ-V8V1T0B

It's been a year since I have been using it in my Asus TUF F15 (2021). Still the health is 99 percent and a really good ssd.

There was no problem with this SSD. Worked immediately on installation.Satisfied with the product.

Nice product

Working well

The media could not be loaded. this is currently the best ssd in the market right nowwhen i first received it,i check its made in korea,and packing was goodhow to install1.i own a dell 3501 laptop,i opened it,you can clearly see m.2 port2.remove battery connector,then turn on tha laptop,it will remove any charge present in laptop3.push your m.2 ssd gently at 30 degree angle,note it ,nvme ssd always goes at 30 degree otherwise you will destroy your m.2 pin4.just tight your screw and close the coverfirst things you should doyou wouldn't see nvme ssd when you boot ,you have to initialise it,just open disk partition,it will automatically ask to initialise the new drive1.boot using old deive2.download samsung magician3.check if its genuine or not,and check performancenote - you have to remove old drive before installing windows on ssd otherwise you wouldn't see this ssd in bios boot order ,when booted up , restart pc and go to bios,and set ssd as your boot drive((dell users dont have to remove old drive ,you can simply disable hdd in bios))after using 1 month ,my experience1.this is the best ssd currently right now2.your boot time decrease significantly3.most apps open instantly like chrome ,forefox ,its wouldn't even need 1 sec ,as soon as you click ,it will open4.i own 250 gb model,so read and write speed is 2600/1300 mbps,i gets 2400 mbps and 1200 mbps write speed5.nvme drive tends to runs hotunder idle condition temperature around 38 degree ,but as soon as you put load it will goes upto 63 degree,dont worry this normal,this ssd can run perfectly under 70 degrees,and its has builtin throttling ,so if temperature goes beyond ,it will throttle down itselfthis ssd warms up and cool down rapidlyexperience about samsung magician1.its a good software ,you should installed it ,if firmware is old,then upgrade it2.you can track how much data you have written3.under performance tab ,i recommends using power saving mode ,it will allow ssd to sleep to conserve power,dont worry you wouldn't notice anything,because under full power mode , temperature rise by 4-5 degreehowever if gonna gaming ,then full power mode should be on ,as underthis you will gain 100% increase in 4k random write speed which is most important because ehile gaming their will thousand of small files need to be written but under normal circumstances you wouldn't need it but its your choicemy final thoughtbest ssd ,if you don't have money problem then atleast go with 500 gb model ,it will give 300 tbw , double the amount of tbw 250 gm model offers and if you gonna use just for normal work then 250 gb model is more than enoughi have written 2000 gb in 1 month,at this rate i gonna get 6 years before this ssd unusable,and that amount is used because i did extensively stress test install windows few times , because i got 7 days replacement so i wanted to be sure about performance, otherwise in normal conditions,you never gonna able to use full tbwif you gonna gaming go with 500 or 1 tb model , because todays games uses heavy datadont worry if your ssd survive 1 week then it will run many years,ssd has online time of using of 1.5 million hours(15 lakh hours),so after installing just check if its genuine and use heavily for 1 week ,try to fail that drive ,and if it passes then forget about anything,it will last longer than you thoughtthanks for reading my review

Enjoyed buying this

I went for 980 500GB variant, as it seemed to be most value for money... especially considering my HP pavilion supports PCIE Gen 3, so going with 980Pro which was costlier and is PCIE gen4 made no sense. For those who don't know, even though Gen4 is backward compatible, it actually performs at lower read write speed on a Gen3 motherboard than an actual Gen3 SSD. I used Hasleo clone tool to clone my HDD to the SSD and continued with the GPT partition, my motherboard supports EFI booting. I had to choose the Bootfile during booting from the SSD as there was no way to change the priority, then it logged into the windows on the SSD, then I deleted and recreated the HDD windows partitions..And now the laptop directly boots into the SSD windows. Took me 30 minutes for the entire process including SSD installation, partitioning and Windows cloning. The laptop is pretty fast now. Even my download speed has increased significantly, which I didn't expect, probably because of some buffer being used by the Windows which was earlier on HDD and now on SSD. I mean, I downloaded the Samsung Magician, which is a 307 MB file, it downloaded instantly and i am using Airtel 5g mobile network. I would suggest everyone to install Samsung Magician, it not only tells you different parameter such as temperature and health of your SSD, but lets you perform different diagnostic scans. But, most importantly it allows you to do "Over Provisioning" on your SSD, which is basically allocating certain percentage of your SSD, which will increase the life of the SSD. So, if you have no space issue, you can allocate about 5-10% of your SSD which is supposed to drastically increase the performance and health of the drive. I got the 500GB, so I allocated 10%, which decreased my drive capacity by 46GB.