Customer reviews from Samsung US
Samsung - 960 EVO 1TB Internal PCI Express 3.0 x4 (NVMe) Solid State Drive for Laptops
Average customer rating
4.7
(35 Reviews)
Rating breakdown 35 reviews
5 Stars
29
4 Stars
3
3 Stars
1
2 Stars
1
1 Star
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91%of customers recommend this product.
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31 out of
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Customer Reviews for Samsung - 960 EVO 1TB Internal PCI Express 3.0 x4 (NVMe) Solid State Drive for Laptops
Customer Rating
5
Awesome Drive
on June 6, 2018
Posted by: Sam1lov
from Philadelphia, PA, USA
Expertise:Intermediate
I have had this Drive for more then a year now. It has work with no problems at all. Samsung SSD's are my first pick for this type of Drive.
Pros: Durable, Inexpensive, Lightweight
Cons: none
I would recommend this to a friend!
Features
4
Performance
5
Design
5
Value
5
Written by a customer while visiting Samsung US
Customer Rating
5
Speed in a little package
on January 22, 2017
Posted by: LarkSS
from Newark, DE, USA
Expertise:Intermediate
First and foremost, this drive is fast with near-advertised speeds (see story below for more details). The response time and consistency has been exceptional, and my cold boot time on Windows 10 after enabling several MSI boot optimizations is now 2 seconds flat. Still amazes me several weeks later.
Truthfully, I went through many hoops to get this SSD working with my motherboard (MSI Z97-GD65). However, this was due to my motherboard not having an m.2 port (it has mSata which is significantly different) and was my fault for not verifying this before my purchase. MSI was very gracious however, as about a year or so prior they released an update to their BIOS which added support for m.2 drives - perfect! I ordered an m.2 -> PCI-E x4 adapter, updated the BIOS using a spare USB drive, and installed my new hardware. Initially, the drive was successfully detected by Windows 10 (I had to right-click on the start menu and then initialize the drive via Disk Management). My goal however was to migrate Windows over to this SSD to get off my 1TB HDD RAID setup. I went to a free faithful tool of mine - Clonezilla. After installing the latest stable to a USB stick and booting off the stick, I eventually reached an unrecognized error during the process. Disappointed but not discouraged, I read on a forum post that the dev builds of Clonezilla were on a newer version of Linux with better drive technology support. So I gave it a shot and they were right! Migration took about an hour for 500GBs of written data, and I've been a happy camper since. The m.2 adapter causes a slight loss in performance yielding 85% of advertised read (~2700MB/s), yet still 100% of advertised write (~1800MB/s).
I bought this drive for the performance, endurance and future-proofing. I expect this SSD to remain my main drive after building a new desktop a few years down the road. The performance is insane, taking my rapid loads from a dedicated SATA3 SSD for games to an entirely new level. For anyone still reading, my recommendations are to ensure your computer is compatible with m.2 (at PCI-E x4 speeds), that you are okay with your main GPU lane dropping to PCI-E x8 (MAYBE dropped 1-2 fps for me with my GTX 1080 and dual monitors), and that there's plenty of ventilation around the SSD to ensure that top speeds are consistent during huge data transfers.
Pros: Lightweight, fast, portable
Cons: gets hot quickly
I would recommend this to a friend!
Features
5
Performance
5
Design
5
Value
5
Written by a customer while visiting Samsung US
Customer Rating
5
Fast Awesome Drive!
on June 14, 2017
Posted by: Anonymous
from Columbus, OH
Expertise:Intermediate
Intel's NVME drives pale in comparison to this guy. The drives are no longer bottle necking your system. Probably overkill for most people.
Pros: Lightweight, small form factor
I would recommend this to a friend!
Features
5
Performance
5
Design
5
Value
5
Written by a customer while visiting Samsung US
Customer Rating
5
Fantastic SSD with Astounding Read/Write Capabilities
on March 2, 2017
Posted by: 4warddigression
Expertise:Expert
I use this for my OS and system applications, and I have never seen read write speeds at this level. It's astounding. I took one star off of design because while I have not had an issue with it, Thermal Throttling in high end desktops with heat is a very real risk with the M.2 drives. I really wish Samsung had provided some form of heat sink, or other cooling solution, luckily many of the new Motherboards coming out, are providing heat shield/sinks for M.2 drives. Oh i forgot to mention this thing is tiny. like smaller than laptop RAM tiny. If you are a performance junkie, or just need a new SSD. This is the way to go.
Pros: Inexpensive, Lightweight
Features
5
Performance
5
Design
4
Value
5
Written by a customer while visiting Samsung US
Customer Rating
5
Blazing Speeds
on April 9, 2017
Posted by: DrDoo
from Brazil
Expertise:Expert
An NVME SSD is very different from a normal SATA SSD. It's 3 times faster and with a very small footprint. I recommend you buy the retail version of the Samsung SSD so you will get the 3 year warranty and the Samsung Magician software. The OEM version doesn't have a software and the warranty is only one year. The software is important because it will help you upgrade the firmware.
This is my second Samsung NVME SSD and I highly recommend them. The price difference from other brands is less than $10.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Features
5
Performance
5
Design
5
Value
5
Written by a customer while visiting Samsung US
Customer Rating
5
Very Nice
on April 9, 2018
Posted by: Yogi1Bear
from Ca
Expertise:Expert
Well I have been building systems since 95 and that is when win 3.11 was going to windows 95 and back then scsi was the thing and I have seen so many changes in my time but this drive is so fast and never a hiccup, is loads games programs you name it great drive samsung is the best hands down don't waste your time on any thing else spend the extra to get the best I love samsung drives they are quaility.
Pros: Inexpensive
I would recommend this to a friend!
Features
5
Performance
5
Design
5
Value
5
Written by a customer while visiting Samsung US
Customer Rating
5
Excellent Drive,
on August 9, 2018
Posted by: DL12
from Warren, Pa
Expertise:Intermediate
I built a new system about 3 weeks ago and installed this drive, wow what a difference between this SSD and a HDD drive. I will be installing more in other systems.
My only recommendation would be for Samsung to provide handout that discusses the unique requirements/tools associated with SSD's. This is my first SSD so I had to spend quite a bit of time searching the net for details on Trim, Over Allocate, etc.
Pros: Inexpensive
I would recommend this to a friend!
Features
5
Performance
5
Design
5
Value
4
Response from Samsung USBy Samsung Memory, OBA, August 15, 2018
DL12:
I am happy to hear that you are enjoying the performance speeds of your 960 EVO NVMe M.2 SSD. Your review is very much appreciated and will be shared with our product team.
With NVMe interface and the Polaris controller, your 250GB 960 EVO delivers peak sequential speeds of up to 3,200MB/s Seq. Read and 1,500MB/s Seq. Write. Rest assured that your data is protected from overheating with Dynamic Thermal Guard.
The 250GB model is further warrantied for 100 TBW and is backed by a 3-year limited manufacturer's warranty.
For further product information, downloads, and FAQs, you may want to visit:
https://www.samsung.com/us/support/owners/product/960-evo-nvme-m2
and https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/support/faqs/
Should you ever need assistance with this product, please contact Samsung Customer Support 9AM - 12AM EST (Mon-Fri) / 9AM - 9PM EST (Sat) via any of the below options:
1) Toll-free calling at 1-800-SAMSUNG (ask for Memory)
2) Email at: samsungmemorysupport@sea.samsung.com
3) Direct LiveChat 9am-9pm EST (Mon-Fri) at: https://www.livehelpnow.net/lhn/lcv.aspx?d=34834&ms=&zzwindow=0&lhnid=29783
The Samsung Memory and Storage Community is also a great resource for getting help from Samsung moderators and customers: https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/Memory-Storage/bd-p/memoryandstorage
Thanks for choosing Samsung.
~ Samsung Memory
I am happy to hear that you are enjoying the performance speeds of your 960 EVO NVMe M.2 SSD. Your review is very much appreciated and will be shared with our product team.
With NVMe interface and the Polaris controller, your 250GB 960 EVO delivers peak sequential speeds of up to 3,200MB/s Seq. Read and 1,500MB/s Seq. Write. Rest assured that your data is protected from overheating with Dynamic Thermal Guard.
The 250GB model is further warrantied for 100 TBW and is backed by a 3-year limited manufacturer's warranty.
For further product information, downloads, and FAQs, you may want to visit:
https://www.samsung.com/us/support/owners/product/960-evo-nvme-m2
and https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/support/faqs/
Should you ever need assistance with this product, please contact Samsung Customer Support 9AM - 12AM EST (Mon-Fri) / 9AM - 9PM EST (Sat) via any of the below options:
1) Toll-free calling at 1-800-SAMSUNG (ask for Memory)
2) Email at: samsungmemorysupport@sea.samsung.com
3) Direct LiveChat 9am-9pm EST (Mon-Fri) at: https://www.livehelpnow.net/lhn/lcv.aspx?d=34834&ms=&zzwindow=0&lhnid=29783
The Samsung Memory and Storage Community is also a great resource for getting help from Samsung moderators and customers: https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/Memory-Storage/bd-p/memoryandstorage
Thanks for choosing Samsung.
~ Samsung Memory
Written by a customer while visiting Samsung US
Customer Rating
5
Exceeded Advertised Benchmarks!
on April 18, 2017
Posted by: ScubaSky
from Kentucky, USA
Expertise:Intermediate
It is truly a nice surprise to have a product actually perform better than advertised. 3,257 MB sequential read right out of the box. I haven't even updated drivers or enabled rapid mode yet. Hopefully the total lifetime writes will live up to what is promised as well, but I couldn't be happier for now.
While expensive, this drive is priced fairly for the performance boost it brings and worth every penny if R/W speed is what you need. I loaded a clean install of Windows 10 - Creator's Update (Build 15063.138) in under 5 minutes!
Cons: m.2 mounting screw is not included
I would recommend this to a friend!
Features
5
Performance
5
Design
5
Value
5
Written by a customer while visiting Samsung US