Samsung 960 Evo 250GB Internal Solid State Drive (MZ-V6E250BW)

Well the 3 stars are basically for the 960 evo as far as only features are concerned. Otherwise a five star for the produce packing and delivery by Amazon. So if you have owned a 2.5"ssd 860 Evo and think that the 960 evo m.2 nvme will be a a huge upgrade to your rig then think again. The Samsung magician software which is unique to Samsung and brings a lot of tuning and speed enhancement features to the SSD has cut all of the features for the nvme ssd's. So no RAPID mode, no Over provisioning. Well to put it simply my Lenovo y50 laptop with 860 Evo 2.5"ssd installed is way more faster then my alienware r4 with the 960 Evo nvme m.2 ssd.

The performance of the SSD is phenomenal. Booting time for Windows 10 is under 10 seconds. Using it for analysis and photo editing. Response time is as low as possible.The price shown on amazon app was higher than the actual product price. Invoice from retailer was of the original price, its just that Amazon was showing higher discount, since price was bloated by +5k. So it feels a bit misguided and I question the "discounts" during the sale now on.With that said packaging and product deliver is satisfactory.Install the Samsung magician software once you install the ssd. It tweaks yhe performance.

Totally satisfied with SSD. Now my PC is extremely fast. Boot time is very less, it boots within 30 seconds. Now MS Office 2016 files opens in 2 second, PDF files open just on a click of mouse button. It takes only 5 seconds to open Photoshop CC 2018. Full paisa wasool. If you have a M.2 slot on motherboard, don't think twice, just go for it.

People on a budget go for traditional ssd. The performance difference is not that different from regular SSD. I bought it and have a slight buyer remorse. I should have bought a larger ssd.

Great product and perfectly fits on my Thinkpad. However its slightly expensive here in India.This pushes your laptop to great speeds and boot times are phenomenal.I had to buy a 10USD adaptor to fix this component in my laptop. Hence do a research before you purchase.

BEST Nvme M.2 ,awesome performance no doubt ,but amazon global took more than expected + u don get warranty for the product here in India (reason why i reduced 1 star ) ,no one can match performance of Samsung m.2 enthusiast level delivered .

Superb Product,I Received yesterday and installed on my HP ENVY 15T notbook.migration takes just 10 minutes, after some settings in BIOS, my laptop boot with Samsung 960 EVO SSDpreviously it takes 30 sec to start with this SSD my notebook starts with just 8 seconds.all application start within the clicksautocad and photoshop also starts with 4-5 seconds.superb product go for it.

Just go for it if you want the ultimate speed in your computer, but please make sure your device supports, NVME M.2 PCIE GEN 3*4..Read Speeds up over 3.2GB/S and write hovering around 1.3GB/S.

Purchased at £109 with an eye to the future.Bought to fit underneath a new Asrock mITX AM4 motherboard (new build Ryzen 1600 cpu). Frankly I only bought because I didn't fancy added one later as this would mean yanking everything back out of the case and wanted the fun of giving the new technology a go. Also the price margin over the more standard SSD 2.5" drive was only about 30 to 40%. So worth avoid the potential hassle, imo.The increase in speed is due to 4 PCI lanes being assigned to the NVMe drive compared to 1 PCI lane for standard SSD 2.5" sized drives (these work essentally the same as mechanical drives with no physical delay). These four lanes can operate nearly simultaniously hence you would expect a minimum 4 times increase in sequential read speeds.The difference between the EVO and the PRO version is that the former only performs at top speeds for a limited time frame. In generall unless you're a professional worker dealing with huge files there is no worth in purchasing the PRO giving the price difference. Those doing more typical home user work, including AAA gaming, will almost certainly never notice the difference between EVO/PRO.Ok now the bad news. These drives run hot, much hotter than SSD and mechanical drives, especially when writing. You may need to consider this before purchasing (see later paragraph). The good news is that they have built in temperature sensors to throttle throughput in effectively the same manner as CPU/GPU throttle. So there is never any chance of burning the drive out. Performance depends on temperature albeit this will always be way above SSD 2.5" levels.My drive was fitted in a 'worst-case' location, underneath the motherboard with a 5 to 10mm gap to the metal shied compartment housing the the PSU, very low forced air flow likely. Temperatures, idle 30C riasing to 60-70C when under full load benchmarking. Saw little sign of throttling but suspect top temperature must be around 70C or so. Have concluded this is fine for gaming as there is little writing and unless I take up video editting can ignore. There are heat spreaders available for these types of drives (rather costly imo), but consider them pointless if the key problem is lack of air flow. Samsung say the labelling is designed to act as a heat spreader, fine whatever.Anyway are they worth a 30 to 40% price premium over the SSD?Franking I am not too interested in benchmarks due to the dependence on temeperature and a general low opinion of there practical worth and prefer to go with 'feelings'. So subjectively in use, by far the most noticable difference occurs on software installation especially if using Windows Updater 10, clearly a boon with a new build. Big difference on any task that leans heavily on 'writes' to the drive. On 'reads' little noticeable difference.So my answer to the above question would be: If it's a new build and you've got a suitable NVMe M.2 slot, go for it, otherwise don't feel you're missing out on a lot. I wouldn't be inclined to purchase a PCIe slot expansion card to utilise a NVMe drive other than the fun of doing it.FWIW: My main concern on purchasing was whether I could directly install the OS on the drive without hassle. With Window Updater 10 (Build 1709) and the Asrock mITX Ryzen mobo (Bios 3.6) had no problems at all.Also looked/researched other brands of NVMe drive and considered it a no-contest to go for Samsung. The price margin just was not big enough although the other brands were will almost certainly be subjectively similar (except for Intel which I would avoid). Of course in time this will not be the case. Also note that very similar looking M.2 slot drives are SATA (and thus appear cheap) and not NVMe (VERY IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE, see above), there performance is little better than SSD 2.5" (and sometimes worst!).

Building a new Ryzen 7 1700x desktop I was looking at optimising performance at all levels, and started with this. Using the 960 Evo 250GB M2 NVME drive to install my OS and use for a handful of games, performance has been fantastic. Better than a traditional SSD drive? Yes. Worth the extra money? Well, that's the question! At £100 for 250GB, you're paying around double for what you would with a traditional SSD drive so you have to decide if you are better served buying this drive, saving £50 or still spending around the same money but getting a disk in the 500GB arena.For me, it did make sense. I've paired it with a traditional 1TB 7,200rpm hard disk and will add a 500GB SSD later on down the line. If you have the budget, I'd go for it. If a traditional SSD drive for around half the price will probably yield very similar results for day to day use.

Recently purchased a Dell XPS 8930 which came fitted with Intel optane HDD combo which to be honest was surprisingly good. I just wanted to go down the NVME route so swapped the optane out for this 960 evo m.2, I've only installed the operating system on it and got an SSD 500gb running has a second drive. Wow my PC is on and ready to use in under 10 second's and turns completely off in 4 second's.Bench marks are pretty much bang on at 3200 read speeds and 1500 write speeds what can I say very happy.

The best memory manufacturer and really the best product on the market at the moment for the price. If you don't have M.2 you can buy a PCIE to M.2 adapter for £10-£20 depending on the quality you want.

Great drive - make sure you download and install the proper drivers from samsung or you may not achieve the max read/write speeds this drive is capable of.