Samsung 980 PRO SSD with Heatsink 1TB PCIe Gen 4 NVMe M.2 Internal Solid State Hard Drive, Heat Control, Max Speed, PS5 Compatible, MZ-V8P1T0CW

Perfect no issues at all

I got this m.2 significantly reduced, but what a steal! Great storage space, a massive improvement on my old hard drive and SSD speeds. I've had 0 issues, it's an incredibly reliable storage device. It's also so much better than having to worry about wires or a bulky HDD and SSD getting in the way. I don't know if I'll ever go back after getting an m.2. 100% worth the investment.

I bought this for my PS5.I'm currently using the (PS5) beta firmware and one of the enabled features was the activation of the m.2 port. I wasn't lacking in available space as there is not a real lot of ps5 games released that actually interest me, I was getting by with my 4tb external drive and the stupidly small amount of internal SSD space on the console itself but I figured I would go ahead and buy a drive anyway.Sony recommend you attach a heatsink to your nvme drive if it doesn't come with one as standard,After looking at factory heatsink nvme drives specifically the WD-Black SN850 1tb, it became apparent you pay a heafty price on top for the heatsink, At the time of writing it was £150 for the 1tb WD black and £235 for the same drive with a heatsink attached, probably hiked in price due to a Sony guy tweeting it was his drive of choice.Anyway I decided to buy the 980-pro (this drive). It was marginally more than the SN850 and I'm presuming other people were showing interest as Amazon's price algorithm jumped from £176 to £188 (then back down to £179 immediately after I bought it).. thanks for that, just my luck.The heatsink I paired it with was the 'EZDIY-FAB M.2 2280 heatsink' (ASIN: B086X79CSN).£11.99 at the time of writing this.Installing the heatsink and installing the drive was really straight forward, it fits in the bay nice and snug and the cover screws back down fine.The drive installs (into the PS5) Samsung label/chip side up (facing you/installation door), so install the heatsink accordingly.I have a external harddrive for PS4 titles which I will continue to use.I moved all my ps5 titles from the console SSD to the m.2 and set the console to install to that drive from here on in.I have been playing pretty long and hard today and not noticed any laggy frames (apart from a little screen tearing on AC: Valhalla, which happened occasionally when using the built in SSD)Overall load times and performance is no different than the Sony SSD.I do think the prices are outrageous, £350/450 for 2tb and the best part of a grand for a 4tb, hopefully the prices will come down in time, but as demand increases (when the firmware goes public). It wouldn't surprise me if they get worse before they get better.The SN850 is a little cheaper (none heatsink) and maybe a better choice.Both drives offer the same limited warranty (5years or 600TB written, whichever comes first).I can't think of anything else to say, I should of taken a few pictures before I closed/plugged in my ps5. I will maybe open it up and take a few in the next few days..Edit: There seems to be misinformation floating around regarding the removal of the Samsung sticker, It's my opinion that you should not do this for two reasons..1. It's a thermal sticker designed to redistribute the heat, so it's only going to help the tape/heatsink.2. More importantly removing this will void your (Samsung) warranty.Of course in the end the choice is yours.Buy with confidence!I hope this review helps in some way.

It took me 30 minutes to install this tiny thing, update its firmware, copy my filled up C: to it, flip drives over, and hey presto my filled up 120GB C: is now a 500GB C: The free Samsung software made this all possible - absolutely brilliant!The software doesn't come with it. You need to search for "Samsung Magician" and download that - that updated the firmware to the latest version in seconds. No need to mess with the Samsung "Firmware Update Utility" which I'd downloaded just in case.Then download "Samsung Data Migration" app - this copies your old C: (all of it - not just Windows) to the shiny new drive. My 100GB took about 15 minutes to copy. I created a "Windows Recovery Drive" while I was at it (USB "emergency" disk), using the Windows tool, not the Samsung app.Each step (firmware + migration) shuts down Windows so you need to power PC back up. A "cold start" is always best to properly reset plugged in hardware.After the data migration I had 2 drives with identical drives labels and identical folders/space used - that's a good start! My old C: was still C: - I just wanted to check the new Samsung drive was "all there". It was (this became E: - your system may differ depending on other drives you already have).I changed the drive label to "Samsung 980" to avoid confusion.Another reboot, into BIOS, made the Samsung "boot order #1", which pushed my old boot drive off the top spot. Restarted...Woohoo! Windows came up in a flash. No message about "you've changed your system please contact Microsoft" like old versions of Windows might have. It just worked. "Samsung 980" was now C:Thank you Samsung software - the software made this the easiest major flip I've ever done.Performance...my mobo (Asus Z270 P) is old school "PCIe 3", not the "PCIe 4" this NVMe can run at. I figured I'd update the mobo one day and made sense to be a step ahead, so purchased my new "C:" to be future proof (ish).The only performance test I did was to run "tree c:\ > nul" from a command prompt and roughly time it. "tree" walks the directory structure printing it to screen as it goes. Adding "> nul" just hides the screen output to remove graphics from the timings. tree took about 15 seconds on the 980.Ran "tree e:\ > nul" to do same to old SSD. 1 minute 30 seconds. Exact same directory structure.For this rather lame performance test the NVMe took 1/5th of the the time my old drive did it.It would be nice if they included a tiny M.2 screw. The attention to detail with the packaging, manual, software, hardware is "pro" but the omission of such a cheap tiny thing is annoying. Luckily I had a few from old mobo boxes. This doesn't merit an entire star being knocked off - the free Samsung software easily makes up for it, but nonetheless I'd expect OEM "white boxes" to omit such things not premium Pro products.I gather most manufactures omit this little M.2 screw so let's not dwell on it too much.I'm very pleased with this. The intention is to install the new MS Flight Simulator on it. That needs 150GB which is more than my entire old C: drive.A big thumbs up from me. Again, the free Samsung software made upgrading my boot drive a cinch.