Famous Maker M.2 Solid State Drives 1TB

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kind of looks like one of these

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147567

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Bought the 1TB, 256GB, and 250GB on sale here. 1TB & 250GB I received were Samsung 850 EVO drives and the 256GB was a Samsung 950 pro.

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LOL, is this for real? Amazon, I mean Woot, expects us to pay this much for a REFURB drive without even knowing the brand!? Haha, funny!
Hard pass.

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It certainly does look like the same board, but the solder work doesn’t look identical. And without them listing a name/model, there’s no telling exactly what they’re shipping.
I’m not a major refurb hater, but for SSD and HDs it seems way too risky to buy something that’s been returned for an unknown reason. Data loss ain’t fun.

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You’re kidding, right? They didn’t even do a good job blurring the word SAMSUNG in the photo.

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It has the exact same etches in the PCB save for the grid of copper dots which I can only assume is a “refurb mark” caused by the refurbishment process. If the picture is what they’re shipping, it’s almost definitely the https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147567

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Purchased one, very happy with the performance!

New m.2:

CrystalDiskMark 5.2.0 x64 (C) 2007-2016 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/

  • MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]

  • KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes

    Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 4554.893 MB/s
    Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 5563.052 MB/s
    Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 705.832 MB/s [172322.3 IOPS]
    Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 482.329 MB/s [117756.1 IOPS]
    Sequential Read (T= 1) : 4515.663 MB/s
    Sequential Write (T= 1) : 5547.592 MB/s
    Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 349.725 MB/s [ 85382.1 IOPS]
    Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 492.376 MB/s [120209.0 IOPS]

    Test : 1024 MiB [C: 42.5% (395.9/931.5 GiB)] (x5) <0Fill> [Interval=5 sec]
    Date : 2017/08/29 22:17:58
    OS : Windows 10 Professional [10.0 Build 15063] (x64)

Original SSD, EVO 850:

CrystalDiskMark 5.2.0 x64 (C) 2007-2016 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/

  • MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]

  • KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes

    Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 405.429 MB/s
    Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 424.853 MB/s
    Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 275.787 MB/s [ 67330.8 IOPS]
    Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 235.691 MB/s [ 57541.7 IOPS]
    Sequential Read (T= 1) : 378.534 MB/s
    Sequential Write (T= 1) : 400.315 MB/s
    Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 37.111 MB/s [ 9060.3 IOPS]
    Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 118.350 MB/s [ 28894.0 IOPS]

    Test : 1024 MiB [Q: 38.4% (178.9/465.8 GiB)] (x5) <0Fill> [Interval=5 sec]
    Date : 2017/08/29 22:28:57
    OS : Windows 10 Professional [10.0 Build 15063] (x64)

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Which drive did you buy?

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The one sold here in this thread, the 1 TB M.2 drive.

That is the drive results at the top, the lower one is my existing 512 drive

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Just so everyone knows this, but there are 2 types of M.2 drives currently. There is the M.2 Sata format and there is the M.2 PCIe NMVe format. The Sata interface disables 1 or 2 Sata ports on the MB depending on the MB and only is as fast as the Sata ports so the drive might be very fast based on manufacturer specs but real world it is no faster then a standard 2.5 Sata drive format, about 600 MB/s. The M.2 PCIe NMVe on the other hand disables one of the smaller PCIe x1 lanes but will yield incredibly faster speeds, about 3.9 GB/s or 3900 MB/s. The Samsung 800 series are M.2 Sata format and really only serve a use in a laptop where space for a 2.5" SSD is lacking. If you are putting this in a desktop you want the newer 900 series which uses the NMVe interface and is over 6 times faster.

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So if you have a laptop would putting the PCI still give you that amazing speed, or would it be money wasted? I just got an HP Omen and it supports PCI, but if it doesn’t effect the speed that much I would just got with and 850 evo.

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It depends on the Motherboard. You need to find out if the laptop M.2 slot you want to use is a SATA interface or PCIe interface. SATA interface will give you fast speeds but no faster then a normal 2.5" SSD that is cheaper then this device and is higher capacity. If your Laptop only supports M.2 SATA the only reason you would get an M.2 is if you cant replace the HDD/SSD, or you want to add more storage capacity to the laptop without replacing the HDD/SSD. If you want the super speed you need a to make sure your motherboard supports M.2 PCIe and the card is an M.2 PCIe card.

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V-NAND is a trademark of Samsung so that gives it away.