PM981

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PM981

17 positive 0 neutral 15 negative

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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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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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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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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

2

Need Affordable Upgrade

I wanted a rig to last me years from owning an am4 rig with 5800x. Generally I prefer picking and choosing used components as it’s massively cheaper like Samsung pm981 it’s. High endurance fast SSD vs new crucial and kioxia which aren’t the best quality and the Samsung 990 series which run too hot.

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Apprehensive_Bike_40 in r/pcupgrade

July 23, 2025 8:00 AM

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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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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.

Yes. but PCI-e 4 is fully backwards compatible. If anything, fast PCI-e 4.0 SSDs like the aforementioned Samsung 990Pro saturate the bus in every scenario. PCI-e 3.0 x4 has a maximum realistic throughput of somewhere between 3500-3700 Gb/s. which is easily surpassed by modern SSDs. Samsung 990 Pro r

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bhomburg in r/thinkpad

May 3, 2026 7:14 PM

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Recommendations for T480 i5-8350u

Thanks for chiming in, I have the oem samsung pm981 drive it serves the purpose and i have external storage for backups! AX210 definitely is in my list now.

Rich_Courage1560 in r/thinkpad

June 29, 2025 4:00 AM

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Recommendations for T480 i5-8350u

I have the oem samsung pm981, it does the job and feels quite fast despite being limited to x2 pcie lanes..

Rich_Courage1560 in r/thinkpad

June 29, 2025 4:15 AM

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Upgrade GPU or start over

You’ve got a good power supply and ‘upgradable’ motherboard that could take a coffee lake i7 8700 given some surgery. There’s also chance that you could use mini pcie to nvme adapter to get nvme working on this board. It’s only a gigabyte/s vs sata speeds but a 1tb Samsung pm981 would be much snappe

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Apprehensive_Bike_40 in r/pcupgrade

July 5, 2025 11:11 PM

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