This is the Samsung 980 SSD - a gen 3 NVME drive that's designed to run at around 3,500mbs for longer. It's not as fast as gen 4 NVME drives, but that's not the point, it's designed to perform well for longer - running cooler and more efficiently at those top speeds for a longer period of time. In fact it's said to run at those speeds for 75% longer than the 970 Evo that came before it, which is impressive.

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It comes in three different size versions - 250GB, 500GB and 1TB. All reasonably priced. Other highlights include:
- 5 year limited warranty
- Guaranteed up to a max of 600TBW (Total Bytes Written) for the 1TB version (or 150TB for the 250GB and 300TBW for the 500GB version)
- A new heat spreader and Dynamic Thermal Guard technology dissipates heat faster and helps maintain performance.
- Runs as much as 50% cooler than the 970 EVO
- 36% less power use and 65% more power efficient vs 970 EVO

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Further info on the Samsung 980:
"980 features newly enhanced Intelligent TurboWrite 2.0 technology. Compared to the previous Intelligent TurboWrite, Intelligent TurboWrite 2.0 provides up to 5.5 times larger buffer (TurboWrite region, 500GB case) than the previous 970 EVO. That being said, in most cases, users can experience high performance of SLC speed up to 3500MB/s for a longer period of the time. The Intelligent TurboWrite algorithm does not affect SSD endurance, because the total amount of data users write on the SSD is unchanged."

"980 shows a better sequential write performance than 970 EVO. 980 can write the 175GB of data without any significant speed drop according to our internal test result, whereas 970 EVO shows a major speed drop after 25 seconds & 43GB transfers. That being said, using 980, users can transfer around 32 of two-hour length Full HD movies (5GB per movie) in no more than 80 seconds. "


Like most NVMe SSDs, this one does NOT come with M2 screws in the box. You'll usually find those included in your motherboard box. If not you can buy them from Amazon:

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Basic PCIe M.2 adatpers:
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0:00 Hellooo
0:21 Unboxing the Samsung 980 SSD NVME
1:01 speed and reliability
1:48 The price
2:20 Setup the SSD
2:59 Samsung Magician software
3:40 Whoops installation mistake
4:05 Drive Data
4:30 Benchmarking the Samsung 980 SSD NVME
5:55 Transferring files test


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