Samsung 960 EVO Series - 250GB PCIe NVMe - M.2 Internal SSD (MZ-V6E250BW)

Fast. moved operating system easilt with Acronis.

I upgraded to this from an 850 EVO, and the loading difference is not subtle. You will not have to wonder if it is faster. You will see it immediately in your load times.

This was pretty easy. I installed it in an ASRock Z170 Extreme7+ motherboard. I used the Data Migration software from Samsung to clone my existing SATA SDD. Then I ran the Samsung Magician and found I bought myself 5x faster read performance and 8x faster write performance not to mention the greater storage space. Im happy. I cant say much for reliability yet but given Samsungs track record Im hopeful.

Great storage device so far! Games load and save much faster. My slightly older motherboard limits the available lanes to the PCI slot Im using to host the card, so Im only getting ~1.5GB/s read performance instead of the full 3GB/s throughput NVMe is capable of.....but thats still more than THREE TIMES as fast as I got with traditional SSDs, and its nice to know that it will be even faster when I eventually build a newer PC. Im using it to host my Steam Game Library and Saves. I estimate it loads the Video Cards memory up in about half the time of my old conventional SSD when playing Total War:Warhammer, XCOM, and Dragon Age. Below is the PCI slot Adapter I used. I just attached the NVMe card to it, plugged it in, and it worked: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MYCQP38/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Dont know if my motherboard would need a BIOS firmware update to boot off of it...it might...doesnt matter though because Im not using it for that. The PC already boots in less than a minute and Id rather have the performance when playing games!

Worked flawless out of the box and boots up windows extremely fast.

easy to install some PCI-E slot BIOS settings may need to be changed on older motherboards

Samsung 960 EVO Series - 500GB PCIe NVMe - M.2 Im a wedding photographer and I have to handle files quickly if I want to spend more time at home with family. These help me do that. Ill explain the hardware and software basics below. I purchased a lot of parts from different vendors. At the time of ordering this I couldt get it from Amazon with 2 day shipping so I bought from somewhere else. Thats why Im not verified. I publish hundreds of verified reviews. Im running these in RAID 0 which means the data is striped between two of these drives. If you want do do this here is the setup Im using - 2x Samsung 960 EVO Series - 500GB PCIe NVMe (The NVMe is important you cant do this with any old m.2 and speed matters these are fast) - msi gaming m7 board (important there are only a few boards today that allow raid 0 m.2 drives) - windows 10 64 - 64GB DDR4 memory - Intel i7 6700k - No special cooling or overclocking - 8TB Archive Drive for local backup - 16TB NAS built diy style for a second Backup - I can restart in about 10 seconds because my operating system is on the SSDs - I also keep all the programs on the SSDs and I actually do keep frequently accessed data on them too. This is usually images Im working on currently (the software is setup to hold the quick loading previews for a month or two) - large files like archives of my weddings I keep on a portable hard drive that I backup nightly. The SSDs are definitely one of the most important components in getting a really snappy workflow (benchmark screenshot attached)

Its fast, really fast. Works great. System boots up in less than 4 seconds now. Transfer speeds are speedy and it looks cool.

just got it literally plug and play thing is very fast

Great so far... I initially installed this on my MSI Z97 Gaming 7 motherboard, in the M.2 slot...Installed the Samsung NVME driver and Samsung Magician....Was getting around 500-600 MB/S Read speeds...Same as my 850 EVO 2.5 SATA SSD...Suck! SO, I did some research and found out that this Mboard only allows the card to run in PCIe Gen 2 x 2 mode...When installed in the M.2 slot that is... So I bought the Vantec card-M.2 NVMe SSD PCIe X4....And just installed it and then ran Samsung Magicians performance benchmark and got a read speed of 2,998 MB/S..Sensing that SM is optimized for their own drives, I ran basic disk tests in HD Tune PRO-(1674.6 MB/S Read) and Performance Test-(14,597 Disk Mark)... Only time will tell how useful this will be over time...So far, Ive seen SOME performance improvements, but I feel that theres a limit to the performance of certain tasks, as the engine driving those tasks can only be pushed so fast... ThumbsPlus is a good example..Thumbnailing video files on the C drive are only marginally faster than on my 7200 rpm Seagate 3TB drive..Simply because TP is 32 bit and its kernel can only handle so much data so quickly.. The best performance improvement you can get is still lots of fast ram..and the fastest processor you can afford/justify....Storage is storage, and still has to travel across a bus to get to the CPU, get its tasks, go back, perform the tasks, then return and let the CPU know it is done.. This will definitely speed up games though! Even the allocating disk space function on Steam is at least twice as fast as it was on the old 850 EVO SATA SSD IDK if its related, but Im downloading Wolfenstein: The Old Blood at 36 MEGS/Second! I have an up to 200MB/s connection with Xfinity and a wired Ethernet connection directly to the modem, but I was only getting in the low 20s before...This may also be because I stopped using the killer ethernet port built into the motherboard and started using an Intel internal NIC...Its only in a 1x slot though... Only downside so far is the TINY screw you need to install this drive as I hate to call it a drive since there are no moving parts....If you are a little bit spastic like me, you may drop it more than once...Be sure to have a magnetic retriever on hand...