870 EVO

Your counterfeit suspicion is probably correct. The EVO 870 is one of the most cloned SSDs on the grey market and the missing vent holes plus the extra tab are both red flags. Genuine 870 EVOs have a specific PCB layout and the housing is dimensioned to standard 7mm 2.5" specs - anything that won't

Yup, I have a couple of 2.5" SATA drives. I have a Samsung EVO 870 500GB that I use for my OS/boot drive and a 1TB Lexar NQ100 which I use for games. Then I have three NVMe's, a 2TB & a 1TB are my mains and a 512GB one that I use in an external USB enclosure. There's basically no difference in gamin

Yup, surprisingly chilly for a 90nm RSX - it's actually about 10c better than my 2008 CECHH (-1GB 90nm, which does run cooler than most 90s) although this and my CECHB are set to run on 31-32% fan speed. An audio tradeoff I'm willing to take to keep them alive as much as possible. And surprisingly t

yeah that price is absolutely ridiculous - the 870 evo 500gb normally goes for around ₹5k-6k. that listing is either a scam or a seller glitch. for your hp 245 g7, you can get a crucial bx500 or wd green 500gb for much less. i've bought several crucial drives for old hps and they work fine. stick to

External drive cloner or cloning using software on a computer would both work the same. I did this using a USB adapter and dd under Linux. Copied the original drive to a disk image, swapped the drive on the adapter, and cloned the image back to the new SSD. This is beneficial because I also wind up