Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1 TB PCIe NVMe M.2 Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) (MMZ-V7S1T0BW )

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.

This drive really is revolutionary if you're coming from running your OS on a HDD. The move from HDD > SSD is a game changer, and this drive being connected directly to a PCIe slot in your motherboard allows it to reach speeds far superior to that for a standard SATA SSD, which are generally capped around 550MB/s.📈 My results from both Samsung Magician software and CrystalDiskMark speak for themselves, my sequential writes and reeds are all over 2000MB/s, which is so blazing fast especially when transferring from one SSD to another, which is something I do often - a 2GB file I've noticed takes a couple seconds, anything less than 2GB is so quick I don't even see the little pop-up that shows you the transfer progress and ETA.🌡️ 40-60C is where you can realistically expect this drive to be hovering around, the reason my one is on the higher side is because my one is directly underneath my graphics card, a RTX 2080, which is a card that generally runs a little hotter than other cards. The drive never exceeds 70C, even while gaming.👨🏽‍🔧 Installing this drive was a breeze, and migrating the OS from my previous drive an 850 EVO SATA SSD to this was unimaginably easy - the software makes it incredibly easy to select your source and destination during the migration process and transfer everything over. All you need to do is restart, change your boot drive, and you're good to go.🥇 Reliability is where this drive shines, I've been using this drive nearly everyday in my PC for over a year and so far the diagnostics scan in Samsung Magician is reporting no abnormalities and that the drive is in good health. I double checked this with another software called CrystalDiskInfo which is reporting back 100% integrity.All in all, this is one of the best purchases I have made for my PC. I strongly recommend sticking with Samsung when it comes to SSD's for your PC, I've now also got a 8TB QVO and a 1TB 860 EVO that all work extremely well together, super fast transfer speeds and zero wait time - try it for yourself, you won't regret it!