Ultimately, the real-world performance differences between the SSD 970 Pro and competing drives like the WD Black NVMe are pretty minimal. Add in the SSD 970 Pro's limited capacity choices, and the result is that most consumers, even speed freaks like competitive gamers and pro video editors, should...

Extremely fast read and write speeds, constant across capacity; Excellent reliability ratings; Five-year warranty; Low power consumption; Hardware encryption

Expensive; Only two capacity options

Samsung's 970 Pro flagship SSD offers incredible performance, especially when it comes to writes, where it tops the charts with up to 2.4 GB/s because of MLC flash. Reads are even faster at 3.5 GB/s. If only the SSD was more affordable: $200 for 512 GB is not exactly cheap.

We feel the EVO and PRO are both at a grand level and very close to each other in performance, the 970 Pro model definitely has a bit more bite in some areas though. Realistically, the 970 series is more of an evolution rather than a revolution, it has been all about refining the technology.

If you have a friend who knows a thing or two about computers, then you might have heard the notion that "upgrading to an SSD will change your life." A little dramatic, but we stand by what we preach.

The Samsung 970 Pro 1TB is the largest capacity model of the company's newest high-performing consumer M.2 NVMe SSD line. We previously reviewed the 512GB version, and though it had a strong showing, we were expecting it to be a bit faster.

For those after the very best that NVMe SSDs have to offer, Samsung's Pro line has often been the go-to choice for workstation and power peeps alike. They're usually faster than their more consumer and wallet-friendly Evo SSD siblings, and often come with higher endurance ratings for all that...

If you want the world's best performing flash-based consumer SSD, then what you want is Samsung's 970 Pro.

There's no doubt, though, that the 970 Pro is a high-performance drive that suffers from diminishing returns. If you have a high-end PC for creative applications or workstation tools, then it's worth paying the extra cash to get the fastest SSD around. For the vast majority of people, though, the

At first I thought it was DOA - I plugged it into 2 different motherboard slots and even an M.2 PCI card. Nothing new showed up in device manager, not even an unknown device without drivers. My 960 pros were still listed (samsung driver 2.3).

This is an expensive drive and even though it is worth it, there is no compelling reason to upgrade from any of the newer PCIe m.2 drives unless you want bragging rights or worship benchmarks.

As fast as advertised; The benchmarks don't lie; Bragging rights and showing off for all you techie friends; Actually, like all Samsung drives this is top of the line quality that works like blazes

You can't tell the difference between this drive and other top tier m.2 drives; I replaced a 256 gig 960 evo m.2 drive with this one and the computer isn't noticeably faster; Run the benchmarks and you can see it is even though the percent of increase isn't great.