Samsung 970 PRO NVMe 512GB M.2 SSD: High-Speed PCI-E 3.0 x 4 Storage with V-NAND Technology Review

Has very high performance, I installed my windows home OS and 3 AAA games on it, reaches temperatures up to 50C in heavy games and it still is expensive for a 512gb nvme.

the drive is good, but it gets very hot, I was worried about other components on the motherboard. I didn't want to spoil it so I just sent it back.

drive is good but gets very hot, worried about other components on my motherboard. I didn't want to spoil it so I just sent it back.

I bought this NVME drive from stock at a significant retail discount. When you purchase Renewed/Open Box items, you agree to certain upgrades that come with it. The package arrived in standard shrink wrap courtesy of Revain. was previously formatted. Possibly a previous buyer. And it took three attempts to delete or remove existing partitions from the drive, including using Samsung's own software. So far it's working like a champ. So far I haven't had any problems with Samsung SSDs.

Make sure the motherboard slot supports this M.2 card. I have three computers and each has different support - one of the two sockets only supports this card with an M key (on the end of the socket the key is on the right); another card with key B; Another single-port computer supports both - all three motherboards from the same brand. I connected it to an external M.2 USB enclosure to view the drive in the computer. When I moved from a smaller drive to a larger one, I used a program to merge…