Samsung

970 EVO

Name: Samsung 970 EVO
Brand: Samsung
Price: 239.00 CAD
Availability: InStock

#19 in SSDs #228 in Computing

55.7/100

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SSD prices have tripled in 3 years

In 2023 there was a surplus of SSDs and were very cheap. Took advantage to buy a Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1TB for around $60. It isn't available anymore, but I bet it'll cost over $200 if it was today. AI ruined everything.

AvErYcReAtIvE2111 in r/mildlyinfuriating

August 7, 2026 at 11:33 a.m.

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So long Crucial... thanks for the fishes

Back in early 2023, Samsung 970 Evo Plus 500GB drives were going for under $30. Should’ve bought hundreds.

chriswiest in r/sysadmin

December 3, 2025 at 7:50 p.m.

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Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1 TB had 345 thousands power-ons in 3 years of home use, then died.

Some 970 Evo Plus'es used flawed Samsung V6 NAND flash memory which were susceptible to the "0E" issue. The "0E" SMART ID having a non-zero value and your SSD being put in read-only mode undoubtedly confirms it.

Zestyclose-Desk-7524 in r/pcmasterrace

May 24, 2025 at 3:12 p.m.

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What SSD brands are reliable

Never had an issue with Samsung SSDs. 850 EVO, 870 EVO, 970 EVO. My Silicon Power A55 (I call it ASS) sometimes and randomly refuses to be recognized. I have to wait and then restart and then it'll fix itself. Scary stuff that's why I just store less important stuff on this.

PusheenHater in r/buildapc

April 20, 2026 at 11:29 a.m.

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Received a warning message upon restarting my PC

Samsung SSD 970 EVO PLUS 500GB WARNING: Please back-up your data and replace your hard disk drive A failure may be imminent and cause unpredictable fail.

polishatomek in r/computers

September 23, 2025 at 4:31 a.m.

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Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1 TB had 345 thousands power-ons in 3 years of home use, then died.

Did you ever update the firmware on these? Samsung 900 EVO and the 900 EVO Pro series are known to kill themselves. They're most common the Pro models and the most common with the 990 and 980, but still happen to the 970 models. My guess what causes the problem is that Samsung pushes the SSD chips t

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KingGorillaKong in r/pcmasterrace

May 24, 2025 at 1:51 p.m.

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PCIe 5.0 SSDs are overkill, and manufacturers finally realized most people don't need them

I'm still stuck on PCIe 3 with two Samsung 970 Evo plus. I write stuck, but honestly the SSD speed isn't bottlenecking anything. Maybe if prices where normal, an upgrade would be an option, but there's so little pain using PCIe 3, I'm not even willing to upgrade to PCIe 4

EconomyDoctor3287 in r/datastorage

August 3, 2026 at 1:39 p.m.

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I finally have the budget, but am I going overkillabout this build?

NHD15 is not a good cooler for the price, its very close in perf to a $30 peerless assassin. You could change the gpu to a 5080 or 4080sI would change AIO to a galahad ii trinity 360mm perf as its the best perf (arctic 3 is quieter but max cooling is less) The 990 pro is honestly overkill, a 990 evo

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KFC_Junior in r/buildapc

March 11, 2025 at 1:35 a.m.

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Disk wearout - how buggered am I?

I read that a lot, but my Samsung 970 EVO 1TB still has only 1% wearout, it's running for about 3 years now. Are only cheap drives affected with low TBW?

Thaeus in r/Proxmox

May 22, 2025 at 11:34 a.m.

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How much RAM needed to run JellyFin on the DXP 4800 Plus/Pro

I have a complete Arr stack, Jellyfin, qbit, cross-seed, etc. (13 containers in total) running on the stock 8gb that came with my Pro and it’s sitting at 3gb ram used. Absolutely no issues watching Jellyfin content. Definitely get a cheap 256gb NVMe for an applications drive. Nothing fancy since the

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LowResChaos in r/UgreenNASync

August 6, 2026 at 10:04 p.m.

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