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This is a review of the Samsung 960 EVO 250GB M.2 SSD Drive. Summary – I did purchase else where due to earlier availability and a few dollar savings, however, this is a BEAST! I am using this with Lycom DT-120 M.2 PCIe to PCIe 3.0 x4 Adapter (Support M.2 PCIe 2280, 2260, 2242) which was very cheap. I did a lot of research and this card was my answer to finding a way to add the Evo 960 ssd drive to my pc in a way that actually permits the SSD drive to operate full speed. AS long as your motherboard supports booting from PCI Express or has a full speed M2 Slot, you can be up and running in little to no time. Here is the quick list of all I needed to do. Be mindful that I was expecting to have problems, boot issues, bios adjustments and possible windows 10 reload but did not at all. Total swap time less than 30 minutes. Swap Procedure Install SSD onto the new Lycom card. (Just slides into the slot and tightens down with the included screw.) Install Lycom card into available PCI Express x 16 lane inside your pc. (You can use a x4, x8 or x16 available pci express slot. Not all pins will be used of course.) Ran Samsung Data Migration Software (free via google) to clone my current EVO 850 to the new drive. (Literally took only 20 minutes.) Then once it was done the cloned, I shut down, pulled the old SSD sata drive out and rebooted. My pc booted right away. I expected Windows 10 to give an activation issue and all, but nothing. This is truly plug and play and has been rock solid so far. I even did a bench of speeds and got maximum speeds!! (A few lower but that could be due to other hardware in my pc.) Out of the maximum actual speeds of 3200mb/s read and 1900mb/s write, I was able to obtain 2993 mb/s read and 1348 mb/s write. Very well priced SSD and works amazing. Highly recommend. Wish all the pc hardware I bought installed this smooth.