Samsung 970 Evo 500GB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD
The SSD that goes furtherAccelerate into next-gen computing. The Samsung 970 EVO delivers breakthrough speeds, best-in-class reliability, and a broad range of capacity options up to 2TB*. The latest V-NAND, new Phoenix controller, and Intelligent TurboWrite technology enhance high-end gaming and 4K & 3D graphic editing. Next level SSD speed Feel the NVMe difference. The 970 EVO transforms high-end gaming and streamlines graphic intensive workflows with the new Phoenix controller and Intelligent TurboWrite technology. Get stunning sequential read/write speeds of 3,500/2,500 MB/s, up to 32% faster writes than the previous generation.
The SSD that goes furtherAccelerate into next-gen computing. The Samsung 970 EVO delivers breakthrough speeds, best-in-class reliability, and a broad range of capacity options up to 2TB*. The latest V-NAND, new Phoenix controller, and Intelligent TurboWrite technology enhance high-end gaming and 4K & 3D graphic editing. Next level SSD speed Feel the NVMe difference. The 970 EVO transforms high-end gaming and streamlines graphic intensive workflows with the new Phoenix controller and Intelligent TurboWrite technology. Get stunning sequential read/write speeds of 3,500/2,500 MB/s, up to 32% faster writes than the previous generation.
The SSD that goes furtherAccelerate into next-gen computing. The Samsung 970 EVO delivers breakthrough speeds, best-in-class reliability, and a broad range of capacity options up to 2TB*. The latest V-NAND, new Phoenix controller, and Intelligent TurboWrite technology enhance high-end gaming and 4K & 3D graphic editing. Next level SSD speed Feel the NVMe difference. The 970 EVO transforms high-end gaming and streamlines graphic intensive workflows with the new Phoenix controller and Intelligent TurboWrite technology. Get stunning sequential read/write speeds of 3,500/2,500 MB/s, up to 32% faster writes than the previous generation.
The SSD that goes furtherAccelerate into next-gen computing. The Samsung 970 EVO delivers breakthrough speeds, best-in-class reliability, and a broad range of capacity options up to 2TB*. The latest V-NAND, new Phoenix controller, and Intelligent TurboWrite technology enhance high-end gaming and 4K & 3D graphic editing. Next level SSD speed Feel the NVMe difference. The 970 EVO transforms high-end gaming and streamlines graphic intensive workflows with the new Phoenix controller and Intelligent TurboWrite technology. Get stunning sequential read/write speeds of 3,500/2,500 MB/s, up to 32% faster writes than the previous generation.
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The lowest price for Samsung 970 Evo 500GB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD right now is $140.48 at DiscTech.com, compared across 5 retailers.
The all-time low was $109.00 on 30 Jan 2026 — today's price is 29% above the lowest ever. It has been notably cheaper before — worth setting a price alert.
Prices last updated 8 June 2026.
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originally posted on bhphotovideo.com
I have a Samsung 1tb 970 EVO Plus as a boot drive, OS and general purpose applications. I also have a Samsung 500gb 980 nvme as a games drive, but was quickly running out of diskspace. I decided to buy another Samsung 1tb 970 EVO Plus. It was an easy swap on the motherboard, but the performance is definitely a step up from the 980. All my games load just that much quicker than it did before. I know the specs are almost identical, but the 970 EVO Plus is definitely faster. I think pricewise, I paid the same for the older, better performing and larger capacity Samsung 970 EVO Plus as I did for the lower capacity and less performing Samsung 980 (which my wife got as an upgrade from a mechanical drive :-) ) Win, win. Highly recommended.
originally posted on bhphotovideo.com
I now have multiple Samsung products: phone, laptop, internal and externa SSDs. The hardware has been consistently excellent...zero complaints. So far, the 970 Evo SSD recently purchased is purring along as I have come to expect. NO disappointments here! I purchased a Galaxy Book Pro 2 with only a 256GB SSD with the intentions of replacing it with a 1TB drive. I got the best of both worlds when to my pleasant surprise, B&H gave me a gift certificate for $100 with the purchase of the laptop. I then applied that to the cost of the 1TB 970 Evo....coming out way ahead and have a much faster SSD that would have come installed in the laptop. I most certainly would highly recommend this product!
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Had been using the Samsung Evo Plus 970 NVMe 250GB SSD for the past month. Got it to add as a boot drive for my new PC build. The box came packaged well, and doesnt have any chance of slipping from its slot while shipping. For the first week, havent finished the build yet, so started using the EVO Plus using the external Samsung X5 SSD shell, by replacing the existing hardrive that came with the package. The speeds are much better on the Evo Plus, compared to the default drive that is in the X5 with speeds over 30% to the default drive.When testing the read-speeds, it was over 2GBPS, which is the highest I had seen on all the SSD devices that I have including the NVMe SSDs. Tested the speeds with Macbook Pro 15 with TBT3 and Alienware M15 with TBT3. Mac harddrive ... MoreHad been using the Samsung Evo Plus 970 NVMe 250GB SSD for the past month. Got it to add as a boot drive for my new PC build. The box came packaged well, and doesnt have any chance of slipping from its slot while shipping. For the first week, havent finished the build yet, so started using the EVO Plus using the external Samsung X5 SSD shell, by replacing the existing hardrive that came with the package. The speeds are much better on the Evo Plus, compared to the default drive that is in the X5 with speeds over 30% to the default drive.When testing the read-speeds, it was over 2GBPS, which is the highest I had seen on all the SSD devices that I have including the NVMe SSDs. Tested the speeds with Macbook Pro 15 with TBT3 and Alienware M15 with TBT3. Mac harddrive is over 20% slower than the Evo Plus 970 NVMe SSD. With Alienware M15, the write speeds of Alienware default NVMe drive is over 600Mbps for a 16GB file while the Evo Plus stayed at around 400Mbps. But the Read speeds for the same file is over 2.6Gbps for 970 Evo Plus, but around 1.7Gbps for the default NVME on M15(but also to consider is that the 970 Evo Plus is connected via TBT3 whereas the internal drive is connected to the motherboard directly, so expect that the 970 Evo Plus will have probably higher speeds when replaced the existing NVMe on M15.When plugged into desktop, on MSI Z370-A Pro, was able to get seq read speeds almost reaching 3000Mbps and seq write speeds around 2400Mbps, which is awesome as a basic boot drive and to have games load from the drive. I also have 2 secondary drives that use Samsung 860 QVO which have good speeds for data storage and read.Only thing I missed out on when getting the drive is that I didnt consider the size of games, so since I have only 250GB drive, restricted, but planning on upgrading the motherboard to be able to get two NVMe ports to allow plugging in another 970 EVO PlusThe harddrive helps with quick and fast boot of the desktop, with under 2 seconds to boot and had no issues playing AAA games on high settings(Config is i7-8700K and 16GB 3000MHZ RAM and 2070 RTX)Pros: Fast Read speeds and Write speedsCons: Could have some better heat sink to prevent it getting a bit hot, but going to get a new MOBO with heatsink to prevent this
| General | |
| Device Type | Solid state drive - internal |
| Capacity | 500 GB |
| Hardware Encryption | Yes |
| Encryption Algorithm | 256-bit AES |
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I have a Samsung 1tb 970 EVO Plus as a boot drive, OS and general purpose applications. I also have a Samsung 500gb 980 nvme as a games drive, but was quickly running out of diskspace. I decided to buy another Samsung 1tb 970 EVO Plus. It was an easy swap on the motherboard, but the performance is definitely a step up from the 980. All my games load just that much quicker than it did before. I know the specs are almost identical, but the 970 EVO Plus is definitely faster. I think pricewise, I paid the same for the older, better performing and larger capacity Samsung 970 EVO Plus as I did for the lower capacity and less performing Samsung 980 (which my wife got as an upgrade from a mechanical drive :-) ) Win, win. Highly recommended.
I now have multiple Samsung products: phone, laptop, internal and externa SSDs. The hardware has been consistently excellent...zero complaints. So far, the 970 Evo SSD recently purchased is purring along as I have come to expect. NO disappointments here! I purchased a Galaxy Book Pro 2 with only a 256GB SSD with the intentions of replacing it with a 1TB drive. I got the best of both worlds when to my pleasant surprise, B&H gave me a gift certificate for $100 with the purchase of the laptop. I then applied that to the cost of the 1TB 970 Evo....coming out way ahead and have a much faster SSD that would have come installed in the laptop. I most certainly would highly recommend this product!
Had been using the Samsung Evo Plus 970 NVMe 250GB SSD for the past month. Got it to add as a boot drive for my new PC build. The box came packaged well, and doesnt have any chance of slipping from its slot while shipping. For the first week, havent finished the build yet, so started using the EVO Plus using the external Samsung X5 SSD shell, by replacing the existing hardrive that came with the package. The speeds are much better on the Evo Plus, compared to the default drive that is in the X5 with speeds over 30% to the default drive.When testing the read-speeds, it was over 2GBPS, which is the highest I had seen on all the SSD devices that I have including the NVMe SSDs. Tested the speeds with Macbook Pro 15 with TBT3 and Alienware M15 with TBT3. Mac harddrive ... MoreHad been using the Samsung Evo Plus 970 NVMe 250GB SSD for the past month. Got it to add as a boot drive for my new PC build. The box came packaged well, and doesnt have any chance of slipping from its slot while shipping. For the first week, havent finished the build yet, so started using the EVO Plus using the external Samsung X5 SSD shell, by replacing the existing hardrive that came with the package. The speeds are much better on the Evo Plus, compared to the default drive that is in the X5 with speeds over 30% to the default drive.When testing the read-speeds, it was over 2GBPS, which is the highest I had seen on all the SSD devices that I have including the NVMe SSDs. Tested the speeds with Macbook Pro 15 with TBT3 and Alienware M15 with TBT3. Mac harddrive is over 20% slower than the Evo Plus 970 NVMe SSD. With Alienware M15, the write speeds of Alienware default NVMe drive is over 600Mbps for a 16GB file while the Evo Plus stayed at around 400Mbps. But the Read speeds for the same file is over 2.6Gbps for 970 Evo Plus, but around 1.7Gbps for the default NVME on M15(but also to consider is that the 970 Evo Plus is connected via TBT3 whereas the internal drive is connected to the motherboard directly, so expect that the 970 Evo Plus will have probably higher speeds when replaced the existing NVMe on M15.When plugged into desktop, on MSI Z370-A Pro, was able to get seq read speeds almost reaching 3000Mbps and seq write speeds around 2400Mbps, which is awesome as a basic boot drive and to have games load from the drive. I also have 2 secondary drives that use Samsung 860 QVO which have good speeds for data storage and read.Only thing I missed out on when getting the drive is that I didnt consider the size of games, so since I have only 250GB drive, restricted, but planning on upgrading the motherboard to be able to get two NVMe ports to allow plugging in another 970 EVO PlusThe harddrive helps with quick and fast boot of the desktop, with under 2 seconds to boot and had no issues playing AAA games on high settings(Config is i7-8700K and 16GB 3000MHZ RAM and 2070 RTX)Pros: Fast Read speeds and Write speedsCons: Could have some better heat sink to prevent it getting a bit hot, but going to get a new MOBO with heatsink to prevent this
I purchased this 1TB NVMe M.2 internal SSD to replace my 500GB 960EVO, which was my C: drive and was getting full. Installation is a snap, just plug it into the motherboard's M.2 socket (I have 2, so I installed it into the second socket) and screw it down. I booted to Windows 10 and ran Acronis TrueImage 2020 and used the Clone Disk tool. I selected the Manual Mode for the clone operation, selected my original 960EVO SSD (the current C: drive) as the source and the new 970EVO SSD as the destination. Manual Mode with its default options resizes the data partition to fill all available space on the destination drive, which was exactly what I wanted, so I let TrueImage do its thing. The computer rebooted, did the clone operation, and restarted... Booting correctly ... MoreI purchased this 1TB NVMe M.2 internal SSD to replace my 500GB 960EVO, which was my C: drive and was getting full. Installation is a snap, just plug it into the motherboard's M.2 socket (I have 2, so I installed it into the second socket) and screw it down. I booted to Windows 10 and ran Acronis TrueImage 2020 and used the Clone Disk tool. I selected the Manual Mode for the clone operation, selected my original 960EVO SSD (the current C: drive) as the source and the new 970EVO SSD as the destination. Manual Mode with its default options resizes the data partition to fill all available space on the destination drive, which was exactly what I wanted, so I let TrueImage do its thing. The computer rebooted, did the clone operation, and restarted... Booting correctly from the new 1TB 970EVO SSD! The original C: drive appeared as a regular hard drive. I installed Samsung Magician to update the firmware on the new drive, but it was already using the current firmware. My original SSD benchmarked at just over 500MBs. The new SSD benchmarked at over 3000MBs! My computer boots to the Windows desktop in about 6 seconds. I'm loving the new speed. I wish I could afford the 2TB version, but that's out of my reach at the moment.
Ok, so this SSD is a breeze to install to your M.2 port, although there is some information that you wont' happen across easily and can help to know during install. 1 - Double check that your Samsung Magician software is the 'latest' version. Magician will always say it is the latest, but this is not always true. My Magician was 5.0 and said it was the latest version. But, it would not recognize my new NVMe drive until I downloaded Magician 5.2 from the Samsung website. 2 - There is a separate driver you will want to get for this drive from the Samsung website. Normally you would assume that having Magician would be enough, but the driver is separate. 3 - Ensure that when you look at your drive description in Magician, it says 3 x 4 and not 3 x 2 in the description ... MoreOk, so this SSD is a breeze to install to your M.2 port, although there is some information that you wont' happen across easily and can help to know during install. 1 - Double check that your Samsung Magician software is the 'latest' version. Magician will always say it is the latest, but this is not always true. My Magician was 5.0 and said it was the latest version. But, it would not recognize my new NVMe drive until I downloaded Magician 5.2 from the Samsung website. 2 - There is a separate driver you will want to get for this drive from the Samsung website. Normally you would assume that having Magician would be enough, but the driver is separate. 3 - Ensure that when you look at your drive description in Magician, it says 3 x 4 and not 3 x 2 in the description on the drive page. If you are only using 2 channels, then you may need to adjust your BIOS so that you are toggled to x4 as opposed to x2 for the M.2 port. For me, my ROG Asus Maximus Hero X was toggled to x2 for some reason, and I needed to adjust it to x4 in advanced settings. Very easy, but running at x2 instead of x4 will cut your drive speed in half, so you want to ensure you are at x4. 4 - Last item ... if your drive is installed and everything should be aok, but Magician tells you that your drive is not recognized, you'll need to initiate it in disk management. This did not happen to me with the 970, although I cloned to it this time which initialized it automatically. But when I installed my other 860 a few months ago, it would not recognize it until I did this and it took some poking around to figure it out. Hope this helps anyone that needs it. It's a wonderful drive. Cheers.
I tested on crystal mark. Read/Write speeds would go from 3500 to 1800 or half when going from Plugged in to Battery. I have cheap WD Blue drives that performed better on battery. This isn't caused by it going from 4 to 2 lanes either.The worse problem is the Samsung NVMe drivers on their website cause a critical error (41) in the Event Viewer on Windows 11. Basically the computer would wake up after being shut down and then drain the battery. It took close to a week to troubleshoot. I ended up reinstalling windows 11 and one by one install all my programs. Found the NVMe driver was the cause. After i rolled back to the default MS driver, no issues. I thought Samsung would be the way to go given all the good reviews, but i personally i think they're garbage. This ... MoreI tested on crystal mark. Read/Write speeds would go from 3500 to 1800 or half when going from Plugged in to Battery. I have cheap WD Blue drives that performed better on battery. This isn't caused by it going from 4 to 2 lanes either.The worse problem is the Samsung NVMe drivers on their website cause a critical error (41) in the Event Viewer on Windows 11. Basically the computer would wake up after being shut down and then drain the battery. It took close to a week to troubleshoot. I ended up reinstalling windows 11 and one by one install all my programs. Found the NVMe driver was the cause. After i rolled back to the default MS driver, no issues. I thought Samsung would be the way to go given all the good reviews, but i personally i think they're garbage. This is the 3rd time I've been burned by Samsung branded products. For NVMe drives i'll stick with WD going forward.
Before purchasing the 970 EVO, I checked the ASUS website re: supported hardware. This was not listed. I wrote to Asus support and they could not answer my question, so I took a gamble, but I hedged my bet with a plan. I also purchased an ORICO Aluminum M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure Ultra-Slim M-Key PCIe to USB3.1 Gen2 Type-C 10Gbps External NVMe SSD Case Storage up to 2TB- Grey.Before you read this, let it be known that I am an advanced user and like making things work that are not supposed to. In this case, forcing windows 7 into hardware designed and built for Windows 10. I tried several times to install a fresh copy of Windows 7 to the 970 EVO, but it would continually hang up. We are talking letting it run over night and over the course of days.Windows 10 installed ... MoreBefore purchasing the 970 EVO, I checked the ASUS website re: supported hardware. This was not listed. I wrote to Asus support and they could not answer my question, so I took a gamble, but I hedged my bet with a plan. I also purchased an ORICO Aluminum M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure Ultra-Slim M-Key PCIe to USB3.1 Gen2 Type-C 10Gbps External NVMe SSD Case Storage up to 2TB- Grey.Before you read this, let it be known that I am an advanced user and like making things work that are not supposed to. In this case, forcing windows 7 into hardware designed and built for Windows 10. I tried several times to install a fresh copy of Windows 7 to the 970 EVO, but it would continually hang up. We are talking letting it run over night and over the course of days.Windows 10 installed just fine, but I prefer windows 7. The ultimate goal is to do a dual boot Win 7 & 10.Note, building machines since 1996, A+ Certified PC tech since 2000. Every machine I build for myself is a dual or multi boot, because I can. Ex- Machine 1, built in 1998. runs DOS 6.22, WFWG 3.11, Windows 95B-OS2, Windows 98SE and WinNT4, by way of System Commander on a Tyan Tomcat 2 server board, P 233 MMX and 64 MB 60n EDO, ATI All-In-Wonder 8MB video card, and yes, it still runs today. It's my DOOM and Duke Nukem 3D DOS game toy box.Now, about the board. I like to push it. I want the newest hardware and the oldest software. This board has the chipset and SATA ports I demand, and drivers for Windows 7 where available. I only buy AMD as I will never forgive intel for putting so many competitors out of business, ex. Cyrix to which I was a fan.The Samsung migration software will not work to image the NVMe to a hard drive, only from a hard drive to the NVMe. SO...I used Macrium Reflect to image the 960 500GB NVMe to a WD Blue 3D NAND 500GB Internal SSD. I removed the 960 EVO 500GB NVMe from the MoBo and inserted the 970 EVO 1TB.Booting off of the WG 500G SSD, I used the Samsung migration software to image to the 970 EVO. This worked fine. Now, while I am at this point, I installed a fresh win7 to an SSD. The 960 EVO is now in the ORICO Aluminum M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure. I moved all the files from the 960 NVMe to the 970 NVME in the third partition, then put the 960 back into the MoBo and imaged the clean install of Win7 to prove it works, then imaged it back to the original install, and it works.End result: 970 EVO success in migrating my original install of Win7. A clean back up install and original installs mirrored on Seagate SATA drives for quick recovery stored in a safe place. A bootable OS on the 960 NVMe in ORICO enclosure with 380GB of free space to use, on a USB plug that is way faster and cheaper than thumb drives.WIN, WIN and WIN.Original Specs...ASUS Prime X370-Pro AM4 AMD X370 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 HDMI ATX Motherboards - AMDCPU SocketSAMSUNG 960 EVO M.2 500GB NVMe PCI-Express 3.0 x4 Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-V6E500BWTeam T-Force Vulcan 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2400 (PC4 19200)4 of the SAMSUNG 860 EVO Series 2.5" 500GB SATA III V-NAND 3-bit MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) in raid 0.ASUS Dual GeForce GTX 1060 DirectX 12 DUAL-GTX1060-O3G 3GB 192-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 HDCP Ready Video CardThermaltake SMART Series SP-750M 750W ATX 12V V2.3 & EPS 12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified ...Windows 7 PRO installed via USB drive on EUFI BIOS. Windows 10 to be installed as well.
Replaced the original mechanical 1TB hard drive in our HP Pavilion laptop using the Samsung Migration software. Made an image copy of the old drive, removed the old drive and rebooted into all the content that was there before! Superfast boot, applications open in an instant. The old computer had a slot for the optane cache memory and this fit in the M2 slot with no problems. Like a new laptop for $100 bucks!
EDIT I had to figure out the differences in all this new hardware from SSD SATA to SSD NVMe. Cell Types. TLC (Triple Level Cell) Less Durable Slower, fits 3 bits per cell cheaper. MLC (Multi Level Cell) Best Durability / Speed Ratio for the price fits 2 bits per cell SLC (Single Level Cell) Best Durability / fastest Speed OVERLY PRICED fits 1 bit per cell Of course with the more bits on a cell the more capacity there is right but then the more read and writes causing quicker MTBF (Mean Time Before Failure) So I'm like ok great I know my cell types now what in the world is Samsungs V-NAND compared to this 3D-NAND You'll be happy to know it's the same technological standard Samsung just calls it V-NAND So 2D planar layer cells: to be fit onto the die and that's it ... MoreEDIT I had to figure out the differences in all this new hardware from SSD SATA to SSD NVMe. Cell Types. TLC (Triple Level Cell) Less Durable Slower, fits 3 bits per cell cheaper. MLC (Multi Level Cell) Best Durability / Speed Ratio for the price fits 2 bits per cell SLC (Single Level Cell) Best Durability / fastest Speed OVERLY PRICED fits 1 bit per cell Of course with the more bits on a cell the more capacity there is right but then the more read and writes causing quicker MTBF (Mean Time Before Failure) So I'm like ok great I know my cell types now what in the world is Samsungs V-NAND compared to this 3D-NAND You'll be happy to know it's the same technological standard Samsung just calls it V-NAND So 2D planar layer cells: to be fit onto the die and that's it you're out of room 3D nand (Samsungs V-NAND) technology allows for these single layer configurations to be stacked ontop of each other like floors on a skyscraper. Because of this technology Now we can stack a bunch of MLC Types on top of each other giving us capacity and theorectically more endurance (life span) I'd imagine. (Samsung Software allows you to provision a section of the partition 10% to be stored for extra use as the SSD Controller sees fit. This will increase the life of the drive quite a bit. ) Now for SATA vs. NVMe SATA Max Speed is 6G(b)its / ps. This was great for old rotary HDD's. Then SSD's came into play. The SSD's utilized the 600M(B)ytes / ps or so speed of SATA. This is a bottle neck because the SSD is much faster then the SATA interface allows it to perform at. So came the NVMe (Non Volatile Memory)express I believe. This replaces SATA as the SSD replaces the HDD NVMe also consumes the PCIe Lanes on the main boards' system as the bus to the CPU NVMe 1.3 whats that compared to 1.4 Thats the NVMe Revision Standard. Just like PCIe Gen 1 or Gen 2 Gen 3 or 4 It's the version So what about 64L V-NAND of 64L 3D-NAND Remember V-nand is Samsungs term the rest of the world calls it 3D-nand The 64L or 64 Layers is how high the Cells are stacked this is the 3D or V part of it 64 Layers of Cells stacked 3 dimensionally comapred to the regular NAND which were 1 layer only. So now we have more choices 64 Layers of TLC 64 Layers of MLC 64 Layers of SLC Does your brain hurt yet? Happy hunting theres more to be learned but that is a good start.
The Sata m.2 in the Latitude 7490 had fast disk read of 454 but I knew the NVME would be lightning speed compared to it. I bought the Gen 3 Samsung because of the price and also knowing the Latitude would only use 2 lanes. (per the internet ). I also decided to do a clean install of Windows 11 Pro. I removed the Sata m.2, put in the Samsung m.2 booted up with the Windows 11 Pro install dvd and Windows saw the Samsung immediately. After the install, I tested the drive with Crystal Disk Mark and it was 33250, I later installed the Samsung driver for the disk, downloaded from the Samsung site and it was 3499. The Drive states speeds of 3500. Totally pleased and my son which is an IT Director, is going to buy the exact same disk to upgrade his companies Dell Optiplex's. ... MoreThe Sata m.2 in the Latitude 7490 had fast disk read of 454 but I knew the NVME would be lightning speed compared to it. I bought the Gen 3 Samsung because of the price and also knowing the Latitude would only use 2 lanes. (per the internet ). I also decided to do a clean install of Windows 11 Pro. I removed the Sata m.2, put in the Samsung m.2 booted up with the Windows 11 Pro install dvd and Windows saw the Samsung immediately. After the install, I tested the drive with Crystal Disk Mark and it was 33250, I later installed the Samsung driver for the disk, downloaded from the Samsung site and it was 3499. The Drive states speeds of 3500. Totally pleased and my son which is an IT Director, is going to buy the exact same disk to upgrade his companies Dell Optiplex's. 5 Star, and super quick shipping from B&H.
| General | |
| Device Type | Solid state drive - internal |
| Capacity | 500 GB |
| Hardware Encryption | Yes |
| Encryption Algorithm | 256-bit AES |
