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Awesome SSD!!
By Edward on Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2017
Warning: Long Review. Context and experience with SSDs I recently purchased this device for my newest Alienware 17R4. Now at two months old and the EVO 960 PCI 1TB SSD, almost a month old, the games I had on the Crucial MX300 2TB SATA 2.5 Inch SSD- CT2050MX300SSD1 were moved to this new 960 EVO and there is a VERY noticeable increase in speed and performance over all compared to the previous Alienware 17 that I still own and installed a Samsung 850 EVO 1 TB 2.5-Inch SATA III SSD (MZ-75E1T0B/AM . I have nothing but good things to say about the 850 as I had made it the boot drive/game drive on the previous system. I decided SSDs were the way to go for this new system. So I bought the Crucial 2TB SSD for the open SATA III port and it worked well enough, but some games were suffering severe lag, and I thought it may be the Crucial SSD, as it was a lot thinner and lighter than the Samsung 850 EVO 2.5inch SSD from the previous system. Turns out it was not the drive but the game itself which had been copied straight from the old system onto the new one, though the game had a severe outdoor lag that the game never had on the previous system. The old one has a 4thGen Core i7 2.80GHz overclocked to 3.2GHz, 16GB DDR3 RAM, 2GB Nvidia Geforce GTX 960m. But looking at the specs, the newer Crucial is just as fast as the SATA III 850 EVO, but cheaper, much lighter, smaller and twice the storage for less $$$ than the 850 EVO cost me (it needs a caddy to fit into the drive space available).. In searching for a replacement drive, this system comes with a 2.5inch drive port (where the Crucial was installed) a boot drive slot for a PCI which currently has a crappy factory 128GB M.2 PCIe SSD which is small and slower by far, another such port where this 960 EVO is now installed, and there is still an open mSATA slot. I plan to replace the boot drive with another one of these same 960 EVOs which will bring my storage to 4TB, the largest I have ever had yet. With the mSATA I'm hoping it will be 5 or 6 TB later. I looked at the Samsung 850 EVO M.2 SATA III, but found it was the same speed as the first SSD on the previous system, though cheaper. It was still more expensive than the Crucial and only 1TB, so I looked into the 960 EVO/PROs, and was surprised how much faster the 960s were compared to the 850 EVO and Crucial SSDs (around 3X faster read/write speeds over both the 2.5inch SATA III and the M.2 SATA III). So I had the choice between the EVO and the PRO, and I saw that the PRO is several hundred dollars more expensive than the EVO for a mere 300MB/s of speed. The EVO is already 3x the speed of the Crucial, and the difference in performance was amazing. Moving 80GB of data used to take about a half hour on the SATA III 850 EVO and Crucial 2TB, now takes 10 minutes or less on the 960 EVO PCIe. This 960 EVO is actually less expensive than the 1TB 850 EVO SATA III I bought in 2015. TL;DR Amazing speed. Perfect for gaming. Buy the 1TB 960 EVO PCIe instead of the 1TB 960 PRO PCIe. The 300 or so MB/s of speed of the PRO is not worth the $120-$150 increased cost. Very happy with the amazing look and performance of my games.
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2x960 Evo 250GB: Beware! Both failed within 3 months - Replacement was refurbished. Second one NOT replaced.
By Rohan F on Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2017
Samsung 960 EVO Series - 250GB PCIe NVMe - M.2 In theory these PCIe NVMe SSDs rock. And initially the performance was great. However, the experience I had was that both drives ran for only around 8 weeks before failing. The support is a nightmare with a requirement to fill out multiple "War and Peace" documents, and multiple hurdles to finally get a replacement. When the first unit failed, I received a crappy refurbished unit. This is seriously UNACCEPTABLE. I barely got 3 months out of the SSD and it was dead causing all sorts of problems. THEN, to rub salt into the wound, when the SSD again FAILED within 3 months, I called their support and talked to "Gil" (Gill??) who said they would this time replace the unit with a new SSD. I'm STILL waiting for the email with the approved return information weeks later with NO response to my follow up attempts. When the second SSD failed (which I used as the main boot drive), my backups unfortunately were corrupt, so lost a months worth of work - major disaster. If you value your data, and up-time is important to you as well as hassle free operation, this is NOT the SSD for you. I'm extremely disappointed with Samsung's abysmal product quality and 5th rate support. While I loved the (brief) performance boost, the unreliability outweighs the benefits by a significant margin. It's just not worth it to have your primary system down and to lose key data. AVOID. UPDATE: Samsung finally responded, with the Support Manager no less. However the opening response (which happened ONLY AFTER I'd posted this negative review) was to say Samsung routinely replaces failed SSDs with refurbished units after the first 90 days, and sent terms and conditions statements saying essentially too bad for all the data and time lost. Later, that failure rates for Samsung SSDs were around 1%. If this is so, then If the chance of failure is 1 in 100, then the probability is 1/100 X 1/100 = 1:10,000 probability that anyone would have two drives fail in short order like this. You'd think that if what they say is true, that they'd go out of their way to look after you if you are what they claim is a 1:10,000. But no, I'm given the run around. There is no recognition of either the loss of data and time, or apology for TWO of these SSDs failing with around only 2 months lifespan for each (way less than the reasonably expected 3 years each). And cruel to initially give the impression you'd receive a new SSD to replace the second failure, only to have this reversed. I hope others do not go through the incredibly disruptive and time consuming BS I've had to with Samsung.
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