OEM SAMSUNG PM9B1 256GB M.2 PCI-e GEN 4X4 NVME SSD Internal Solid State Drive 80mm 2280 Form Factor M Key

I installed this in my daughter‘s 2020 Lenova IdeaCenter computer. It installed as described. However, the OEM version wasn’t compatible with the Samsung magician software to clone the drive. It made its installation a little bit more difficult. I had recently used the Samsung magician software to install a NVE M2 drive into another computer and it went flawlessly. I used a cloning software off the Internet. It didn’t work. I ended up installing a new Microsoft 11 operating system. Fortunately the old hard drive still has the data on it and I can transfer it all. Otherwise works great. It doesn’t run hot at all. The computer boots a lot faster it almost seems like it’s brand new. Otherwise, for the price and what you get it’s a great deal. Just be aware that 256 GB isn’t very big and you will probably need a hard drive. The store your data and any large gaming programs.

Functional drive in my Satechi Mac Mini hub adding additional storage without breaking the bank. Since it was going in the Satechi I really didn’t need the fastest SSD due to the interface limitations. This drive is perfect for that purpose and didn’t break the bank doing it!

Works as expected, speed and transfer rate is within specs. Seller's packaging was very poor, very vulnerable, just anti-static bag, not even a box. Storage capacity matches specs, easy to install, OS installation was easy and no issues with Win11 compatibility.

If I had known this thing would cost as much today vs. when I bought it. I would have bought more. This is a great little Drive. I have it in my NAS and it works fine. Holds up and never get's too hot.

This is an OEM SAMSUNG PM9B1 256GB M.2 PCI-e GEN4. Since this is an OEM part, its firmware cannot be updated through Samsung Magician. I received an HP OEM PM9B1, HP part N16683-001. Out of the box it came with firmware HPS3NHAV. As mentioned before, since this is an OEM part, you cannot update its firmware with Magician. Nevertheless, HP did released a newer firmware. You will need to look for and download HP SOFTPAQ NUMBER sp149650 (HP SOFTPAQ FILE NAME: sp149650.exe). This HP softpaq will upgrade its firmware to: HPS4NHAV According HP own documentation, this firmware "Enhances SSD stability" per HP release notes. This SSD will be used on a minipc with pfSense CE (FreeBSD 15). Since I'll use ZFS file system, it should have TRIM enabled by default. I selected this SDD as it should run cooler than the WD SN740 I was planning to use originally. Since firmware was upgraded, I do not expect this drive to suddenly become read only. I'm a happy camper.

Works great in my mini PC. Depending on the BIOS you may need to change some setting if you are trading out SSDs but this is true of all SSDs. Fit and function is perfect as expected with Samsung drives.

The stickers on the drive are questionable, and mine didn't even say "samsung" anywhere. As many others have noticed, samsung magician does not recognize it as original. Anyways, it did work at first, as any other good ssd. I cannot say if it was faster or not than other drives I use (I have other REAL samsung ones) because I mainly used it for a custom project on a raspi pi 5. While I was coding the project, it required me to flash the drive, test, find bugs, fix them, reflash and so on. It was working alright but then, I reflashed it and it got stuck on the initial raspi pi os update. I thought it was just an os bug, so I turned it off and on. It started ok and got stuck on the same spot. Perhaps a bad flash I thought, so I took the drive and reflashed again. Tested and got stuck at the very same stage. thought it could be, even if unlikely, a faulty raspi pi board. So I switched the drive with a real samsung one freshly flashed and it worked correctly. I tried using it as an external drive for windows os too but nope, nothing; it does appear in the device manager but it fails, like if I connected and disconnected it several times. TLDR: works for a few months, then fails and becomes trash.

Fit my laptop perfectly. Got it partitioned and programmed. A good value.

Great little drive. I've installed it in a raspberry pi 5 and as it only reserves 1 pcie lane to access it any benchmark would be unfair. Subjectively it is much faster than the sd card it replaced and copying the OS from the card to the drive was performed by the Pi OS drive copy tool which recognised the drive and copied everything over. Very happy.

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No revisé si era nuevo por que me gano la emoción y lo instale de una como unidad principal de mi máquina Algo que si podria mejorar es el empaque, porque venía en uno de plástico de esos que se pueden doblar como los empaque se cepillos de diente, que a su vez venia en un sobre

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