Samsung 970 PRO, 512GB PCIe NVMe M.2-2280 Interface Internal Solid State Drive with V-NAND Technology

I bought the 2950x, Corsair 760T chassis, Asus Zenith Extreme, Corsair HX1000I PSU, Thermaltake Floe Riing 360, Corsair LPX 32GB (2x16GB) 3200MHz C16 DDR4 DRAM Memory Kit, Black (CMK32GX4M2B3200C16), SamSung EVO 970 512G NVMe, WD 1TB Blue NVMe, Toshiba HD 6TB x3 from Amazon. The CPU arrived but the chip was loose inside the box. I could not install Windows 10 but was able to install Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. When I ran Chrome or Firefox under , the CPU kept hanging up. I changed to Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 DRAM 2133MHz (PC4 17000) C13 Memory Kit - Black, thinking may be memmory compabibil;ity from what I read on Youtube, web. But the problem still occured, can not install windows, kept on hanging when runing Chrome, FireFox under Ubuntu. Changed to G.SKILL Flare X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600) AMD X370 Memory Model F4-3200C14D-16GFX. Same problem occrued. I changed the mem clock to from 1600-3200 for 3200 MHZ and 1600-2133 MHZ for 2133 MHZ and 1600-3200 for G.Skill. Same problem. Can not install Windows 10. hung when ran Chrome under Ubuntu. Hung when ran Geekbench when it run under multi core, single core is ok. I ran mem test and it was ok. Thinking the CPU was damage during ship, I ask for replacement and got one. When i installed in the system ansd ran with G.Skill, It was able to boot windows 10, Ubuntu and no problem.I had to upgrade the BIOS to 1402 for the Asus Zenith to boot with 2950x.Now it works very smoothly. It run fast!!!!,Very happy with the unit.

I was going to wait for the 970 EVO 1TB to become available at MSRP but when I saw this one at its intended price I jumped on it. I was getting discouraged because after the launch of the Samsung 970 series, the 1 TB models seemed to be in short supply and if it was available, third party sellers were selling it well above MSRP. I previously had a 950 Pro 512GB drive that I purchased a couple a years ago and has served me well. Because of that, the transition to the 970 was very easy using the Samsung migration software. I had almost purchased a WD Black 1TB NVME drive at an unbelievable price but the seller ended up cancelling the sale. Regardless, I think I will be happier with this drive and it will be my OS drive for a very long time.This drive isn't for everyone. I wanted the best there is so I decided to purchase but to be honest I don't notice much of a difference from the 950 Pro in real world operations and for that matter its not much different of an experience from the Samsung SATA SSD 860 that I recently purchased. If you are into benchmarks, you will notice the difference right away.Before purchasing this I considered purchasing the HP EX920 1TB, the WD Black 1TB NVME, and the 970 EVO 1TB. If I had seen the 960 Pro 1TB at a deep discount, I may have ended up purchasing that. I think Samsung lowered their initial asking price for these 970 drives due to pressure from these other manufacturers.The delivery was smooth and even arrived one day earlier than originally expected

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.

I’m new to these NVME drives but definitely knew I wanted to try one for a new build. I installed this on a Asus x470-I mini itx motherboard with R7 2700x and 16GB of Corsair LPX 3000MHz RAM. The board recognized it and installed windows on it very quickly from a USB 3.0 thumb drive.The speeds are incredible and I’ve used SSD on my builds for the past 9 years and am blown away by how much faster these drives perform compared. The speed, physical size, and capacity are impressive and the price while higher than 2.5 inch SSD’s are pretty reasonable for what you get in performance.This is the first build I’ve used only solid state drives for all of my in build storage and this drive definitely helps to keep things snappy. If you’re on a budget then there isn’t a need to use this over a SSD. The real world performance you’ll see is improved but the jump from HDD to SSD is already huge and enough for most. You’ll be better off spending less and getting a TB in storage if you’re on a budget. If you you’re willing to spend a bit more then it is easy to recommend this drive.