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Hey guys! So I bought a new NVME M.2 960 Pro, plugged it into my computer as shown in the manual. But I does not show up in my computer. I did install the samsung NVME drivers. The only place I can see it, so that I know its not broken (I think) is in something called BSS(BBS) boot priorities(?) in the BIOS. There it is listed as number 2. The motherboard is a GA-Z170N-Gaming 5 mini itx motherboard. Have anyone installed this before, or knows how it is done? Cus I cant seem to find any info on it anywhere. So I would appreciate some help here. Consider me a super noob, so I might get lost if the solution is something advanced, bare with me please. Thanks in advance!

Hi Everyone, I'm looking to buy a Samsung 960 PRO 512GB to spice up my PC. Here are my specs right now: Processor: Intel 6600k Overclocked to 4ghz Motherboard: MSI M5 Gaming Cooler: Corsair H100i v2 GPU: Gigabyte 980ti Windforce Overclocked late 2015, early 2016 PSU: EVGA G2 750w Current Storage which WILL remain: WD Blue 1Tb and 4Tb So I was wondering if there were any drivers or software require to transfer and install this drive. This is my first time installing an SSD, . I am a Wan Show viewer, I have been subscribed since 2013 and watch every video across all channels, just if any LMG people see this. Thanks, Django

Title said it all - I was looking to find benchmarks to prove which is faster: Intel 750 PCIe 1.2 TB or Samsung 960 Pro 1TB I know both are on different slots, but I am building with new motherboard and have no issue to use any of the slots - I just want to use the fastest drive possible. Can someone provide benchmark? Thank you!

hi everyone... should i remove the sticker on the samsung 960 pro before i use it? it seems to block the heat dissipation since it covers all the pcb sorry this question may sounds a bit dumb but i havent used one yet

Hi,I recently purchased a Samsung 960 pro for my MSI Z170A Gaming M7 motherboard. I was able to install windows by using the Samsung data migration tool from my old SSD 951 Pro with a UEFI version of windows 10 pro. When I installed Samsung magician it showed the 951 as not supported, whatever but the 960 Pro doesn't show up at all? I thought maybe a firmware issue so I attempted to update the firmware but it did not detect any compatible drives. weird but ok I try to install the NVMe drivers, did not detect any compatible drivers again. I called Samsung support and all they would say is that the motherboard needs to be in ahci mode with uefi??? that doesn't make any sense uefi doesn't work with ahci. I though maybe this is a lane issue so I removed all drive but my 960 pro still nothing. I put my 960 in the other slot still nothing. I saw someone say it was an issue with intels turbo drivers so I attempted to do a fresh install with and getting the drive to pull up with Samsung driver but it was not recognized as a valid driver. I saw something about installing it in safe mode so I tried installing the nvme driver in safe mode, still no compatible drives detected. I decided to settle for crystal disk because that always works right? nope it will not recognize the 960 either but it will see a third drive with gibberish lettering. I see it just fine in disk manager not sure what is going on. I am running out of ideas please help!!!

Hello, I own a prebuilt Asus g20CB 970 computer. The HDD that come with it is very slow, requiring upwards of 5 minutes to load all of my programs. I am thinking of shelling out a lot of money to buy a 960 pro 1TB M.2 SSD. I am very certaint that my motherboard contains a m.2 slot, though I am double checking. I just want to know if the size would work on it. I can never get some of the screws out and are already going to pay the geek squad 30$ to install it (Yes I know, I'm sorry.) It is a pretty small case so I don't know if it is going to actually fit in. Thanks for all responses.

Hi, I have a 960 PRO. I want to get another one in six months and connect the two 960 PROs in RAID 0. This means that one 960 PRO will be used, one won't be used. Is this fine for a RAID 0 configuration?

I'm despair on a strange problem.My system runs since almost 2 years without any problems. Since about a few weeks I got the problem that when I'm playing a game like overwatch, after a few minutes, textures and 3D models starting to disappear. After a while the whole game will freeze. When I try to tap out the window the other applications in the background starting to freeze and becoming unresponsive.First thing that came to my head was the RAM. But after I opened the task manager, I saw that the main SSD (Samsung 960 Pro m.2 on DIMM.2) "active time" jumped to 100% and stays that high.Then I have tried to reproduce this behaivor. I can easily do it when I run Furmark on both GPUs. After a few seconds, SSD jumps to 100% and applications starting to freeze. The strange thing is, it will not happen when I only use one GPU. But it's not one of both GPUs that produce this problem. I've tried GPU 1 and 2 separately without any problems. when I use both, yea... you know.It's not a temperature problem. Both GPUs run under water. The SSD temperature is on a normal level.The system is not OCI have updated some of the motherboards drivers in the last few weeks in a month so I can't really say when the problem began. What I've already tried to fix this behavior: Installed the newest GPU driver and one of February Removed Norton Anti-Virus Check the system for malware Installed all current drivers from the Asus website Installed Samsung NVMe Driver 3.0, 3.1 and the Windows NVMe default driver Closed all background applications before testing Switched from BIOS1 running UEFI 1704 to BIOS2 running on UEFI 0802 Reset UEFI settings on 1704 to default DIMM.2 over PCH instead CPU Disable SuperFetch Disable PCIe power saving in Windows Updated Windows 10 to 1903 Samsung Magician says "State: Good" and "Newest firmware installed; 4B6QCXP7" Removed all ASUS crapware PC-Specs OS: Windows 10 Pro (1903) CPU: Intel Core i9-7900X (delidded) Motherboard: Asus ROG Rampage VI Extreme (UEFI 1704) RAM: G.SKill TridentZ RGB 64GB GPU: 2x EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti K|NGP|N Hydro Copper SSD 1: Samsung 960 Pro M.2 1TB (on DIMM.2 Socket; Firmware 4B6QCXP7) SSD 2: Samsung 850 PRO 2.5" 2TB PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 1600 T2 SLI-Bridge: ZOTAC SLI HB Bridge / 2 Slot Any ideas, what the problem could be? The last thing I can try is to reinstall Windows but I'm not sure if this could fix that problem. The whole behavior makes no sense for me. I'm gonna cry :( My baby is so sick :'( :DThank you

Hey everyone! I'm planning to upgrade my PC very soon. MoBo and CPU. Now i want to keep my boot SSD (Samsung 960 Pro). What do i have to do? Can i just swap it or do i have to do anything else? I never upgraded a pc in this way (only built entire systems until now), so sorry this might seem like a stupid question. Thanks in advance for your help!

Hi there. I built my first PC about eight months ago and while it didn't bother me much initially, I'd like to get to the bottom of why I can't quite reach the specified performance levels of my SSD. Note that I've since removed the HDD as it was making loud but supposedly normal clicking sounds that I couldn't stand so we can rule it out for causing any issues. Some things to note/things that I have tried: Don't do anything else on my PC while running the benchmark. Disable antivirus software. Disable indexing (I don't really want to do this as it would take forever to remove indexing then re-enable it for every benchmark). As you can see my motherboard (ROG MAXIMUS X HERO (WI-FI AC)) is fine. It is being detected as Gen 3 (not 2, not 1). Samsung doesn't even recommend running the benchmark in Samsung Magician, but CrystalDiskMark (this is where they run their benchmarks funny enough). In the M.2_1 slot which is under a thermal guard. Temps are a-OK around 40 Celsius (monitored in HW Monitor). Using the latest firmware (4B6QCXP7) and Samsung NVMe driver (3.0). The power plan is High Performance with default settings. Over-provisioning is enabled. Drive has been optimized. Results (exported from CrystalDiskMark): ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CrystalDiskMark 6.0.1 (C) 2007-2018 hiyohiyo Crystal Dew World : https://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) : 3070.933 MB/s Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 1998.199 MB/s Random Read 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 1106.834 MB/s [ 270223.1 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 1036.201 MB/s [ 252978.8 IOPS] Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 660.005 MB/s [ 161134.0 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 492.650 MB/s [ 120275.9 IOPS] Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 47.320 MB/s [ 11552.7 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 118.373 MB/s [ 28899.7 IOPS] Test : 1024 MiB [C: 56.7% (486.5/857.9 GiB)] (x5) [Interval=5 sec] Date : 2018/08/06 18:44:44 OS : Windows 10 Professional [10.0 Build 17134] (x64) As you can see I can't quite reach the 3500 MB/s sequential read and 2100 MB/s sequential write, and I especially can't reach any IOPS levels. Edit: Further analysis: Sequential read is ~13% slower. 3070 MB/s vs 3500 MB/s Sequential write is ~5% slower (whoop-de-do). 1998 MB/s vs 2100 MB/s Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) is 17.5% slower. 11,552.7 IOPS vs 14,000 IOPS. Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) is 42% slower (!). 28,899.7 IOPS vs 50,000 IOPS. <Continues to compare my results with Samsun's spec page, only to realize that my thread count for the remainder of tests is different than theirs... goes to re-run benchmark, BRB> Edit 2: Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 4) : 1031.282 MB/s [ 251777.8 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 4) : 983.980 MB/s [ 240229.5 IOPS] Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 4) is ~43% slower. 251,777.8 IOPS vs 440,000 IOPS. Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 4) is ~33% slower. 240,229.5 IOPS vs 360,000 IOPS.

Hey guys, So I am just reformatting my laptop and for the storage controller I can chose AHCI or RAID mode. I was in AHCI before but when i read the Dell forums it was saying that it should be in RAID mode as that gives better performance especially with a NVME drives and better battery life. I have 2 drives on my laptop a NVME Samsung 960 Pro 1TB and a Seagate SSHD 2TB secondary drive SATA interface. I enabled the RAID mode and was able to install windows no problem but i cant install the Samsung NVME driver as it says no compatible drive found and the Samsung magician software shows the SSD as a non compatible device when it should be. Performance wise there appears to be no difference but the battery life does appear to be better at this point. Just based on other user results on the dell site it looks like RAID is the way to go to get the best of both worlds. But i would like ti install the correct driver and have magician be usable especially for firmware upgrades and such.

Hi all. I recently built a new ryzen system and went through the entire windows 10 installation on my new samasung 960 pro NVMe and got everything to work. However, after doing so I realized I would rather just clone my old samsung 840 pro ssd, which was my original boot drive that contained my windows 10 install, to this new 960 pro. I was able to boot into the old windows ssd on my new system and have since wiped and re-formatted my 960 pro NVMe. I have macrium reflect installed and ready to go to perform the clone. The questions I have are as follows:1.) On my original 840 pro windows install the drive has the following: System reserve (I: drive) partition || Healthy (Recovery) partition || and my main partition with the windows install. Do I need to clone all three of these partitions over to my NVMe drive? My 960 Pro drive currently has it's own Healthy (Recovery) partition, Healthy (EFI system) partition, and the main re-formatted empty partition. 2.) My original 840 pro drive is currently formatted in the MBR partition style while my 960 pro is in the newer GPT partition style. Do I need to reformat the NVMe drive to MBR? I've heard there can be issues when cloning between these 2 different partition styles but I've also heard that new bios's can handle things fine and that GPT is better for today's drives anyway. Any help is appreciated!

Hi all, I have an X99 workstation which I use all the time. However, I'm about to start a new job that requires me to use it at home AND at work, so I need it to be portable. As such, I plan to move the guts of my computer into a smaller chassis, in this case, NFC Skyreach 4. However, this case has only 12mm vertical space for SSDs, any further will risk bending the GPU (the SSD bracket is above backplate of GPU), and I don't know if it's a good idea to force a component to another. Therefore, I would want to look for options without using an U2 SSD. This means Optane 900P is out of the picture, and my current 750 is also out of picture. Keep in mind that this X99 is an ITX, and it only has one single PCIe slot. All AIC SSDs are not usable with it. So, among M2 SSDs, which is the best in terms of multi thread, QD1 random performance, as well as high endurance? Cost is not a concern, unless it's absurdly expensive. So far, I have this list: 1. SM961 2. PM981 3. 960 Pro 4. XG3 5. XG5 6. M8PeG 7. 800P* *: This one is only available in up to 118GB, which is too small. This may be tolerated, but only as a last resort. It also has quite low endurance as an Optane, in the range of mid-range NAND SSDs. My preferred capacity is at least 256GB, preferably 512GB or 1TB. I already have 2*2TB Micron 1100 drives, so I don't need too much capacity. Realistically, I need 40GB for OS and 100GB for source code (Linux, U-boot, etc., I do embedded design). So a super fast drive with at least 140GB is all what I need. But I would prefer 240GB+ so that I don't have to purge source code cache frequently. If I use 800P, I will have to install OS on SATA SSD, which is something I prefer not to do. I know M8PeG is, among the list, the worst performer, but how bad it is? I happen to have one lying around in my HTPC that will never use its all potential, so if it is not completely blown away by, say, 960 Pro, then I might cannibalize it. BTW, has anyone here own an 900P U2 and is willing to tear it down for some pictures? If it is a single PCB construction, I might just strip the case off and that should shave off a few mm. If it has a 2 PCB construction like my 750, then there's no way I can use it in the new case, unless I force it onto the GPU, which I don't want. Fancy custom software and drivers are not needed nor useful. I will be running Linux anyway. //Edit: another option being using the M8PeG for now and wait for 970 Pro, which is announced but not for sale now. Based on performance of PM981, I won't say 970 Pro is mind blowing fast, but it should at least be slightly better than 960 Pro. Thanks