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Review on Samsung 860 EVO 500GB SSD MZ-N6E500BW by Ryan Limkk ᠌

Revainrating 4 out of 5

It was a reasonable purchase, I will order more.

It turned out to be incompatible with my motherboard GIGABYTE Z390 AORUS MASTER (rev. 1.0). When I began to understand the reasons, it turned out that each motherboard on the manufacturer's website has a document "List of compatible SSD devices", and as expected, this SSD was not found there. On a foreign forum, too, someone encountered a similar problem. Before buying, I didn’t even imagine that there were such lists, by the way, there is a similar list nearby for RAM, mine wasn’t there either, but the RAM works fine. I'm not sure about the authenticity, but I visually noticed cutouts along the edges of the contact board, there are two of them and this means the "M2 SATA" type, while other models have only one cutout and this is already the "M2 PCIe Gen 3.0" type, take the second option where one notch, it works faster. I came to the point of issue of the store and issued a refund, they said 20 days for verification, apparently they meant 20 working days, because. only after a calendar month they called back and confirmed that the return was approved, well, at least that way.

Pros
  • I chose this SSD based on reviews, many write that it works great
Cons
  • For a price 30% more, you can find options that are SIX times faster for the same volume.