Samsung990 EVO Plus, 2TB, PCIe 4.0 x4 / 5.0 x2, NVMe2.0 (up to 7250 MB/s), NVMe M.2 (2280), Internal Solid State Drive (SSD), MZ-V9S2T0BW

This is a blazingly fast drive running slower than it's capable to accommodate an eatx Asus crosshair vi extreme motherboard. I'm using it as a separate nvme SSD mounted in the m.2-2 slot of the pc.I have a 500gb Evo 970 plus running windows 11.Windows doesn't need 2TB and for now 500GB is enough. Games can need a lot of space and loading times are much better with a sata m.2, let alone a nvme m.2 like this 990. The extra speed of this device that I'm not experiencing is neither here nor there as the £120ish price is good value IMHO.I have also purchased another for a friend at £114 after another nvme of another manufacturer seems to have failed. Left with a HDD to run the pc from was very laggy. Now with this nvme SSD the pc is much more responsive. That pc has windows and games running from this one drive and perform ls well.Samsung magician can be helpful to monitor Samsung drives, as can crystal disk info to monitor this drive and others.I have also installed a cooler for it, it may not need it at these speeds but it looks and operates in cool fashion.

Excellent Drive.

In my opinion, the Sansung Evo range are amongst the best asSDs on the market and this evo990 2tb replaces a 1tb evo980 that has served my Gaming rig for many years.I was able to quickly clone my old drive onto the new one, using a seperate product and software and the new one booted up instantly on installation and has functioned perfectly since.Price and performance meet perfectly in this drive. Highly recommend this and anything in the Samsung Evo range.Check with your motherboard is compatible, but my Z390 worked with it no issues. Older boards with nvme m.2 slots may need bios updates.Note that some older boards have sata m.2 slots not compatible with nvme m.2 and your could damage your drive if you try and put one in the wrong slot.From experience with an older mbs you can get PCIE adpaters so you can connect your modern nvme m.2 drive via a spare pcie lane so you get the same blistering data transfer speeds. A bios update to the mb may be needed.

I used this drive to replace the 256GB one in a samsung Galaxy Book 2 and boy what a difference it makes. Because it uses less power the temp of the laptop is now a lot lower and the speed difference is great.

Great value M.2 SSD, and performance is up there with the best. Does get very hot, so recommend a heatsink or if you're doing the external enclosure thing, make sure you get one with a thermal pad a some fins. Transfer speeds are for me, as advertised, sustained writes drop off after about 1Gb of data.Recommended

Cloned a 500Gb boot drive to a 2Tb without a glitch. You’re buying into the Samsung Magician software with these drives as much as the hardware. Both are top notch pieces of kit. Highly recommended.

Great service & drive is very fast, very Happy with purchase

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