Review on 💾 SAMSUNG 970 EVO SSD 1TB - M.2 NVMe Interface Internal Solid State Drive with V-NAND Technology, Black/Red by Leonard Beard

Amazing technology. I wanted the 960 series so badly but I kept waiting for a price drop that never happened. Now that there is a newer and better 970 series, I pulled the trigger and bought it. This is the first time I've actually gotten my hands on an NVMe drive. I always thought they were about the size of RAM, but they are closer to the size of bubble gum. I can't believe how small they are. Installation is easy if you can reach it. In my case, it's between the PCIe slots, so I had to remove the graphics card to install it. The BIOS saw this immediately, then I simply used the free partition copy software to transfer the logical partitions and MBR from my 750 EVO to my new 970. I then set the BIOS to boot from the new rubber and disabled the others. As a final step, I removed the drive letters from the two reserved partitions on the boot drive and reformatted the old boot drive to an empty GPT. I can definitely see a difference when loading applications with lots of memory compared to a SATA based SSD. I was hoping to see a noticeable difference in boot time versus desktop, but it's hard to tell. But if you're going from a Samsung SSD to a faster Samsung SSD, trying to notice the time savings is like being smart. In this price range, the disc is worth every penny. Edit: test included. 2759 MB/s write and 2313 MB/s read. If you remember 3.5 inch floppy disks, it's like reading 1915 floppy disks every second. Edit 2: After realizing I wasn't hitting rated speeds (which probably no one would really see) I started looking into this and made sure I had the latest BIOS update, chipset and storage drivers and the Samsung NVME had drivers. After all that, I ran the test again and now I've surpassed the 3000MB/s mark! but with the right setup it goes much faster!