Amazon.co.uk:Customer reviews: Samsung 970 EVO Plus 2 TB PCIe NVMe M.2 Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) (MZ-V7S2T0)

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 April 2024

Capacity: 1TBStyle Name: 970 Evo Plus M.2 SSD onlyPattern Name: SingleVerified Purchase

As an enthusiast PC builder and long-time user of Samsung storage devices, I recently added the Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1 TB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD to my setup, and once again, Samsung has exceeded my expectations in both price and performance.

Let's start with performance. The 970 EVO Plus delivers blazing-fast read and write speeds, thanks to its PCIe NVMe interface and cutting-edge V-NAND technology. Whether I'm booting up my system, launching applications, or transferring large files, the SSD handles tasks with remarkable speed and responsiveness. It's a true workhorse that significantly enhances the overall performance and efficiency of my PC.

In terms of reliability, Samsung has a proven track record, and the 970 EVO Plus is no exception. With its robust design and advanced heat dissipation features, the SSD maintains optimal performance even under heavy workloads. The reliability and durability of Samsung's SSDs give me peace of mind, knowing that my data is safe and secure.

Price is another area where Samsung excels. Despite offering top-tier performance, the 970 EVO Plus is competitively priced compared to other SSDs in its class. The value proposition of Samsung's storage devices is unmatched, making them an excellent investment for PC enthusiasts and professionals alike.

Installation is a breeze thanks to the M.2 form factor, which eliminates the need for bulky cables and simplifies cable management in my PC build. The sleek and compact design of the SSD also helps optimize airflow and maintain a clean and clutter-free setup.

Overall, the Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1 TB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD continues to uphold Samsung's reputation for excellence in the world of storage devices. With its unbeatable combination of price, performance, reliability, and ease of installation, it's no wonder that Samsung remains my go-to choice for SSDs. Whether you're a gamer, content creator, or professional, the 970 EVO Plus is sure to meet and exceed your storage needs. Highly recommended.

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Carl

Fantastic performance and easy to install

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 July 2018

Capacity: 512GBStyle Name: 970 Evo Pro M.2 SSD onlyPattern Name: SingleVerified Purchase

Great drive which performs very well in benchmarks.

Personally I use this drive for multiple virtual machines where it seems to be more responsive when booting, installing or performing disk heavy I/O. I could manage just fine on a SATA model, but this NVMe causes the VMs to feel more snappy and responsive in this scenario. Outside of this specific workload, the drive feels similar to my SATA SSDs since my other tasks are not usually limited by storage performance. After all, SATA solid state drives are already significantly faster and have very low latency compared to spinning rust (hard drives). Benchmarks were ran on my Ryzen 2700X system with an Asus Crosshair X470 motherboard.

Due to being so compact and fast, these drives can get hot. Under heavy sequential write workloads these drives can get toasty and potentially throttle. Running CrystalDiskMark with default settings saw a peak temperature of 64C (22C ambient, installed in desktop but with no active airflow). I suspect that in a restrictive environment, such as a laptop, that throttling could possibly be common in heavy workloads.

Packaging is good. Small cardboard box with a plastic shell protecting the SSD drive. It did not come with a screw to install the drive though as these are usually included with your motherboard. Very easy to install with no cables needed.

Samsung magician software is also decent and easy to use with a clean design. I have tried a range of tools from other manufacturers but the Samsung software is a clear winner. It isn’t necessary, but it allows you to benchmark the drive, set overprovisioning, secure erase and more.

Also make sure to install the Samsung NVMe driver from their website for optimal performance.

As for Amazon, I have a mixed experience. The first drive I ordered was stolen (broken security seal and drive missing) but they quickly arranged a replacement without any hassle. The product itself though is fantastic.

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Frederick

All good, works after years, in harsh.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 November 2023

Capacity: 500GBStyle Name: 970 Evo Plus M.2 SSD onlyPattern Name: SingleVerified Purchase

Got it for quite few years. Works fine.
60TB load on 500GB drive. Quite impressive. 98% life as reported by drive. Real or not. Time will tell.

Full speeds as advertised. However. On the RIGHT drivers.
Windows 7 heavily affected by driver quality/ source.
Full speed constant 3000+ reads.
Writes varies around NOT CONSANT 2000. HOWEVER.

Drive's real (write) speeds are ONLY present, when it is been written at least ONCE, and with capacity reached.
And overheating. No cooling - forget about any speeds. Reminder. Cooling applies to physical DRIVER chip of the drive, NOT the NVME modules. Driver on the drive wants cool. NVME wants the hot in operation. Hot driver chip will bring down drive to zero stop. ZERO. For several seconds/ minutes. This should be clear in every description.

So. Testing must be done on ALL drive, written at least once, and with majority of capacity used.
Love - as usually - when people do 0.01% drive size test, as any indication. And on fresh drive.
Many of the drives CHEAT. Means. First portion of drive, which is tested is ultra fast, either physically or buffer. Mostly sd cards/ usb drives/ etc. But. Got Crucial nvme first, and it does exactly the same. 10GB ultra fast, then drops down to 1000 for the REST of the drive. As oppose most SSDs will perform 100% all drive day and out.

So. Once you REALLY use the drive. Means written, not once, but several times, and used more capacity, drives starts to show REAL LIFE speeds. If you delete a file. Windows MUST physically delete a lot of drive. Not just entry in File allocation table. It will not do it in an instant, but on buffer. Try to switch off computer after deleting/ copying big files, and you wait for several minutes. Try to do massive files deletion, beyond treshold and windows has to do it here and now. For ages.

Normally you won't notice, because it's all in background. On long switch on systems, absolutely not noticable. Try to copy serious data on maxed out drive, and you are for a big surprise on real speeds.

Because majority of people get massive drives, to what they use, they won't notice. Paying several times for what they use.

On Windows 7, due drivers and structure, massive bottle necks on writes.
It's much more complicated than just 'test' or 'use', or capacity, or deletion. There is massive bottle necks on pcie resource allocation.

If you have fast graphic card in use, your nvme drive is heavily bottlenecked. Only very expensive motherboards have this semi sorted.

For majority of people, none of this would matter, they won't notice.
But. For those who REALLY get NVMEs for the purpose, it does.

Ah yes. Final word for all that lovely misinformation about defraging ssd/ nvme.
It does indeed decrease drive's life, by zero point nothing.
It does however increase the performance. For regular person, by zero point nothing. For serious use, servers, high capacity data storing, professional high speeds copying, for which all these drives are meant to exist, it does completely.

Drives ssd/ nvmes have 'lost capacity', not shown on the tag, exactly for the purpose of internal 'defrag', on idle mode. Use the drive heavy in short bursts and speeds are dropping down. To zero. As drive has to operate on 'loss of power mode'. So. Hard lesson. With power loss or forced resets. Lots of data 'lost', because drive couldn't write it physically on time. As it takes a long while to zero data blocks, and then write tons of data from buffer.

So. Defrag of ssds/ nvmes. You can defrag your drive as much as you please. And it will be zero point nothing of drive use.
Windows uses drive endlessly and massively and constantly. Reads are not hurting. Writes are where drive's life is. And any windows writes trillions of times.
I'm light user of pc. And my 500gb drive has 60'000gb of reads and writes (half half). Majority of which is Windows. Not me.
So. If you are doing defrag, whenever you please, you will allocate for zero point nothing of drive's use. 99.9% of drives killing is done by windows. And hm.... Afer quite few years of using drive, and 60'000gb it's still 98% of life, as reported by drive. Real or not. Time will tell. Means you can use drive for 20 years before it will be dead. Majority of people will change drive a lot earlier than that (hdd 3-6 years, ssd 5 years at best, nvme first generation probably few years).

In other words, defrag has completely no meaning to drive's life. Zero.
It does have serious meaning to performance for serious - designed for - use.
And for regular user. Exactly the bottleneck of capacity used and non defraged system, where drive will bottleneck in zeroing data and writing new one.

Reading my own words, only high level IT people will understand. Thou - every user is affected, but is not aware.

When copied tons of data, deleted tons of data, etc, thinking it's done, when bar is 100%. Reality, windows can still clear the data, hours after instruction, same with copying.

Only exception is read only data in big files. Like movies. But then. How many users have data stored in adequate partitions. Read/ write/ rare/ often/ movies/ system/ etc.

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Brendan

Fast M.2 Storage and Reliable

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 March 2024

Capacity: 1TBStyle Name: 970 Evo Plus M.2 SSD onlyPattern Name: SingleVerified Purchase

I just upgraded my PC from a 500mb ssd, to this 1gb M.2 Samsung storage. Easy to use and easy to upgraded and the performance on gaming is excellent, fully recommended

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Mike

Fast and reliable

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 August 2023

Capacity: 2TBStyle Name: 970 Evo Plus M.2 SSD onlyPattern Name: SingleVerified Purchase

I am a great fan of Samsung drives and this 2TB NVME drive is no exception. I originally made the mistake of buying a cheaper brand which turned up and refused to initialize in either of 2 enclusures I tried. So that was sent back and replaced with what I should have bought in the first place, this Samsung drive. There was a sense of relief when it was installed and immediately showed up in Drive Manager, after all the previous hassle experienced fiddling around with that other drive. After that it was just a matter of starting the download of hundreds of megabytes of backup date, safe in the knowledge that it was being stored in a fast, safe and reliable place.

I also have one of these as the main drive for my PC and boot up is lighting fast. Once the password sign in has been done, Windows 11 kicks in instantly with no delay, so this is one amazing drive that is a must have if your PC supports NVME.

However, if as I did, you are going to place it into an enclosure, there are other things that may be worth considering. My PC is only 18 months old, yet it only has the slower USB3.1, so that enormous speed potential of the Samsung Evo 970 SSD is lost. I don't know how much faster this would be with USB 3.2 and I imagine it would make a significant difference, but I am betting you still wouldn't get the speed promised. And then there are a couple of other things that may or may not be relevant to you. I wanted to be able to plug the NVME enclosure into my TV or Android mobile phone, but despite formatting the 970 SSD to EXfat, both the TV and phone refused to recognise it reliably. After trying out different USB ports on the back of the TV, one did finally work, oddly not the one that was supposed to be high power. And as for my Samsung S23 Ultra phone, it did seem to work with it at first, but soon stopped recognising the SSD as anything other than a charger. The option to connect the phone was also greyed out.

On the other hand, my enclosures with 2.5" Samsung or Crucial SSDs in them worked instantly with the TV and my phone can read or write to them via a USB cable totally reliably.

So apart from these perhaps rather obscure glitches, the Evo 970 SSD is highly recommended as a solid and fast upgrade that you can't go wrong with as an addition to your PC. But its also worth considering whether a 2.5" SSD might be better if you are going to connect via USB, as the speed difference might not be much different in the real world away from advert claims and its also a lot easier to swap one out if you are going to use multiple drives with your enclosure.

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Mr. A. S. C. Kimberley

So much better than Starfield, which required this!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 May 2024

Capacity: 2TBStyle Name: 970 Evo Plus M.2 SSD onlyPattern Name: SingleVerified Purchase

So, like the sucker I am, I bought this beauty to play Starfield without 68 million year loading screens on PC.

Starfield is a bit rubbish. However, this Samsung SSD is very good. After I'd circumvented the weird way you have to install it on my Motherboard (TUF Z370 Plus - Gaming) which requires plugging it into the NvMe M.2 port, then lowering it onto a support bracket, not accessible by human hands. (I used wooden toothpicks).

It's very good though. Get as many as you can fit in. When you copy something to it (Baldurs Gate 3 and all updates) it is amazingly fast and, my rig is 6 years old, decades in gaming. When I use the original 7,200RPM drives it's like using my old 486 Sx25.

In short: Good. Dead Good.

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MR JJ McGuire

Very happy with this, the speed is INSANE! (1TB version)

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 January 2021

Capacity: 1TBStyle Name: 970 Evo Plus M.2 SSD onlyPattern Name: SingleVerified Purchase

Pros
Hi bought this off actual amazon not some random seller, it came sealed in retail box i got exactly what i purchased as described, been using this drive for over a week now, im extremely impressed with how windows loads up so FAST and i can instantly start using my pc theres no waiting around for desktop icons to load, ive got 3 games on it Flight sim 2020 Red dead redemption 2 and GTA 5 with 528GB free space so could install more games to it, flight sim loading times have improved greatly no more 10 minute loading screens heck 3 minutes and im on the runway! its super fast at loading MASSIVE difference compared to a regular spinning harddrive, Looks as described.

cons
what dont i like about it? well my pc didnt see it straight away im no expert, i know a little bit about PC's i struggled to get the drive show up, i had to use my old harddrive log into windows open disk management format it and give it a drive letter, i dont know what i would of done without an already running pc god knows what people do for fresh builds anyways i got it working, the drive does not like been moved around in bios for some reason it causes a blue screen dunno if thats an SSD thing?, i feel like its over priced "they all are" i got a few strange words from my mother when i showed her what i spent £160 on, also ive seen some horrible 1 star reviews of people getting ripped off! that was scary to read as id already purchased and was waiting for delivery i almost pulled out on the sale thinking id be a victim too, hope all those 1 star reviews got their money back what happened there is not cool! hope amazon are looking into that, as a buyer its not a very nice thing to read about. but everything seems fine here looks genuine to me all good. play it safe buy from amazon actual amazon no one else i dont wanna see more people getting robbed.

overall
i would of give it 5 star if i didnt have the headache i got trying to get it working, other than that now its working impressed with how fast its made my pc, was worth it in the end.

Update:
2 months on still very happy with it, it holds up its speed working like the day i got it no issues so far so good.

7 months later
Stll no issues runs like the day i bought it correct speeds etc happy up to now, will keep updating this in future, good luck everyone.

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Zippy

Fantastic - the industry standard.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 September 2023

Capacity: 2TBStyle Name: 970 Evo Plus M.2 SSD onlyPattern Name: SingleVerified Purchase

This is pretty much the best-performing drive in its price range, and there isn't really any competition. It's been superseded by a newer version, but my PC can't make use of the faster transfer rates that one offers, so I grabbed this in the Prime Day sale.

When I built my PC I couldn't afford this drive, so I've been using an older 3.5" SSD to store all the scenery, tracks, cars and aircraft for my flight and driving simulator software. Turns out I have a lot of scenery, tracks, cars and aircraft, and I pretty-much filled this 2TB drive! On the plus side, that freed up 2TB of space on my SSD.

Installation is a doddle, but make sure you haven't lost the fixing screw that came with your motherboard. The drive doesn't come with a spare.

The drive was detected immediately (once I'd found the Drive Manager function in W10). It needed to be formatted, which is normal, and then it behaved exactly as it should - like a really fast hard drive.

To be totally honest, the software I'm using can't really make use of the high speed offered by an M.2 drive. The real advantage for me is being able to remove a SATA drive and transfer the contents of my old HDD over to the SSD. Less stuff inside the case impeding airflow, fewer cables too.

Speaking of airflow, this drive does run quite hot. I considered a cooler heatsink, but apparently it's perfectly normal and a heatsink can actually make it worse. It's been used every day for a couple of months without complaint, so I'll just leave it alone!

I have a 500GB 970 EVO (not the Plus version) that's been the main operating system drive in my PC for a couple of years, and it's been absolutely 100% rock solid reliable. The SSD in the machine is a 2TB 860, and that transferred over from an older PC! I trust Samsung drives and I don't buy anything else.

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Andy10132

Amazing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 July 2024

Capacity: 2TBStyle Name: 970 Evo Plus M.2 SSD onlyPattern Name: SingleVerified Purchase

Well, given that its a Samsung product it should be obvious why its 5 stars, however heres a breakdown:

Amazing, TINY little piece of hardware.

Performance: Anything that boots up from it loads in seconds (or minutes if you load bigger games such as No Mans Sky, Assetto Corsa Competizione etc) fitted nicely onto my motherboard, and was compatible.

Compatability: You may need to look at a youtube video and the instructions just to get your PC to "see" the drive but this isnt exhaustive

Durability: Be careful with it when handling as its got the look of it being able to potentially snap if handled roughly

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joe smith

tha best gen 3 ssd ever

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 July 2024

Capacity: 2TBStyle Name: 970 Evo Plus M.2 SSD onlyPattern Name: SingleVerified Purchase

Had it in my computers over 5 years..all still perfoming well.. :)

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