PM981

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PM981

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3.58 Petabytes written to a 256GB Samsung NVMe – It’s at 170% usage and has more errors than there are stars in the universe.

I contacted the support. Dear Samsung Support Team, I am writing to you today not with a complaint, but with a testimonial about the incredible durability of your V-NAND technology. I have been using a Samsung PM981 256GB (MZVLB256HAHQ) in a high-load environment hosting an Arma 3 server. According

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Ready_Violinist_2203 in r/hardwaregore

February 24, 2026 4:29 PM

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I want to resurrect my near-mint X280. It needs a new battery, CMOS battery and SSD (90% health). What’s the fastest SSD I can put in? 512GB is more than enough, but I’d prefer it to be as fast as possible.

You do not notice SSD speed differences in daily use. The Samsung 990Pro is the benchmark in PCIe4.0 SSDs - much faster on paper and in benchmarks than the OEM PM 981. I have retrofitted quite a few of those in xx80-generation Thinkpads and the faster speeds compared to the old Samsung PM981 these s

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bhomburg in r/thinkpad

May 3, 2026 5:03 PM

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whats the best laptop for hackintosh under 350$?

Processor: Intel: 10th gen or older (anything newer is not supported) AMD: Any Ryzen CPU with integrated graphics up to 7000 series Graphics: 90% of laptops use integrated graphics so as long as it is 10th gen Intel or older or AMD you are fine. But if it is a laptop with a dedicated graphics chip a

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AdidasSlav in r/hackintosh

November 25, 2025 7:08 PM

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I am looking for advice and opinions on this personal project

I’ve hackintoshed this exact same setup so it’ll work fine. Only thing you’ll need to change is the Samsung SSD for a WD Black because I’m guessing it’s a PM981 (very common) which isn’t compatible at all. Just a warning, the kext for graphics doesn’t work with chromium acceleration so Google chrome

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AdidasSlav in r/hackintosh

November 15, 2025 1:24 PM

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Successfully hackintoshed my T480 with a PM981 SSD

After swapping the PM991 ssd with a PM981 I decided to try hackintoshing and it works pretty well. Did the EFI mostly myself but pulled a few things from valonxy’s T480 EFI. The touch screen etc. all work, the only thing that doesn’t is thunderbolt 3 but since I am probably not going to use it I am

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rpst39 in r/hackintosh

February 9, 2026 9:54 AM

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How to go about upgrading?

I’ve owned the r10 in 2024 and upgraded to sell.Parts consisted of Thermaltake toughfan pro replacing the AIO exhaust fan with no idle static pressure and poor performance at high rpm, I’d use arctic p12 1800rpm now. Better gpu gtx 1080 but I’d get used RTX 2070 or better now. SSD used a 1tb Samsung

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Apprehensive_Bike_40 in r/pcupgrade

May 11, 2026 11:00 PM

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I am looking for advice and opinions on this personal project

You’ll need: External SSD / enclosure Steps: Install Windows to the external SSD Boot into Windows Install VMWare Install macOS via DMG to the NVMe SSD through VM Build an Opencore EFI on a USB stick Boot the Samsung SSD from the USB stick EFI Deal with endless glitching and unreliable boot because

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AdidasSlav in r/hackintosh

November 15, 2025 2:24 PM

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Error show when trying to download

If you’re kernel panicking when you start the download it’s likely a compatibility problem with your SSD. Since it’s a Samsung 980 it’s probably incompatible, Samsung NVMes are not supported. Some might work but others like the PM981 are absolutely not supported and despite what a few people who hav

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AdidasSlav in r/hackintosh

January 20, 2026 6:20 PM

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Anyone knows how to solve this issue?

tried nvme=-1, it doesn t work, the bootloader gets stuck(but doesn t throw a kernel panic though), the bios sadly doesn t support disabling pci e lanes, but i will look into the ssdt files. the thing is one of my nvmes is a Samsung pm981 which seems to be notorious for this kind of kernel panic, wi

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Due-Association5974 in r/hackintosh

March 3, 2026 7:45 AM

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SSD lost performance after upgrade.

UPDATE: I was running all the tests on battery. HWinfo was showing a current pcie with x4 and speed 5 GT/s. ChatGPT confirmed that it was being downgraded to PCIe gen2 instead of gen3. When I plugged it to AC and retested with CDM it doubled the numbers and was better than the PM981. But still tells

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Abdel403 in r/thinkpad

March 6, 2026 2:34 AM

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