Samsung 980 SSD 1TB PCIe NVMe M.2

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.

Presa per sostituire l’ottima SSD Samsung 860 Evo con connettore Sata.
Questo modello da 500Gb con attacco Nvme formato 2280 è velocissimo, inoltre c’è la possibilità di abilitare tramite il software Samsung Magician la modalità “Full Power Mode” che lascia sempre attiva l’M2 rendendola più reattiva anche se nell’utilizzo “normale” ovvero non ludico non si nota la differenza.
Raggiunge 60/63 gradi di temperatura sotto stress utilizzando il dissipatore della MoBo!
Nell’utilizzo quotidiano ovvero navigando in internet o utilizzando un programma di videoscrittura la temperatura si attesta attorno ai 45 gradi.
Il Test è stato eseguito con il software Crystal Disk Mark impostando il “temp file” su 1Gb e su 16Gb utilizzando la seguente configurazione hardware: CPU intel i5 7400 – Ram DDR4 16Gb 2400 Mhz – GPU Evga Nvidia GTX 1060 – MB Asus Strix B250i.
Per il momento mi sento pienamente soddisfatto, se ci saranno problemi in futuro aggiornerò la recensione.

Acquistato per essere utilizzato come secondo drive sul pc appena formattato. Che dire, anche usando il software di benchmark OEM non si avvicina nemmeno lontanamente alle velocità dichiarate, una enorme presa in giro. Non vedo assolutamente il motivo di spendere 130 euro, quando potevo ottenere simili performance con NVME da 85 euro. Ho acquistato samsung aspettandomi la stessa buona esperienza che ho avuto con il vecchio 970evo e mi sono ritrovato un ssd sovrapprezzo, sto valutando il reso.

Hello Amazonians,

My existing setup is as follows:
Laptop: Legion y740 15inch with RTX2070 MaxQ
HDD: 1TB 2.5 inch (7mm) 7200rpm (stock)
SSD: 128GB m.2 NVMe Pcie 2242 m+b key (stock) with Win10Home

Wanted to upgrade both the:
A.) existing 1TB 7200 rpm HDD as well as the
B.) 128GB m.2 NVMe pcie SSD

With:

A.) 2TB Samsung 870 EVO 2.5inch SATA SSD
B.) 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..

Diese SSD 1 Tb hat es jetzt schon in sich, absolute Vorsicht ist geboten auch ich bin auf denn Schwindel reingefallen. Das Bild ganz genau anschauen laut meinem Test habe ich schon 122500 GB und 133500 GB bearbeitet auch schon 47 mal an und aus geschaltet. Als Leihe fragt man sich, wann war das. Jemand vor mir hat schonmal diese SSD in denn Finger gehabt und woll viel Geld verdient. 1 Stern ist viel zu viel man muss aber um eine Rezession zu schreiben leider diesen 1 Stern vergeben. Nur Orginal verpackte und um etwas teure Artikel kommt man nicht herum um sowas zu Kaufen. Ich bitte Amazon diese Erfahrung zu teilen, ich schädige niemand ausser Bedrücker die noch mehr Geld verdienen wollen.