<< Solved >> Do the Samsung 970 EVO Plus drives work ? New Firmware Available 2B2QEXM7

[ejblom]

Hi all,

Some weeks ago Samsung introduced some new M2 NVM SSDs. I wanted to purchase the older 970 Evo model to create a dual boot system for my Intel Skull Canyon . The new drive is only slightly more expensive and I don't mind the additional 1000 MB/s write speeds. Are there any users that have been using this drive in their builds?

 

[Mystroe]

I have just tried a Samsung 970 EVO PLUS on High Sierra. Unfortunately it is not stable. I've had to unplug it.

 

[Totow]

Same here Mojave 10.14.3 - Samsung 970 EVO PLUS 500GB - unstable, crashed my system during initialization (APFS, HFS), no boot.
Replaced by SAMSUNG 970 EVO 500 GB - no issues !

 

[manublade]

I confirm on Mojave, I switched to 970 PRO 1TB and works fine.

 

[nessung5]

same problem here Sierra 10.13.4 with my old Evo 970 is solid no problems , bought a Evo 970 plus 1 tb 2 days a go and can't get it to stable , it is recognised and loads to desktop but within a few minutes system shuts down , fresh install would fail , but I did manage to clone to it and boot off it but would fail again after a few minutes , do we know why they don't work is it a hardware limitation or driver support ?

 

[digitizer]

Damn, bought two (1tb and 500gb) and same issue. Should've looked beforehand!
If anyone figures out the issue please do post here (even if it's been a while!)

 

[johnnync21]

@RehabMan I have the same problem. Is not stable

 

[Thrashavich]

Is it completely certain it won’t work or is there a chance a future update of some sort would make it compatible?

 

[valherru]

Damn I just bought one and stuck on installation too, any ideas why it is not stable? @RehabMan ?

 

[3Dman]

Damn I just bought one and stuck on installation too, any ideas why it is not stable? @RehabMan ?

I have bought a 1TB one as well and saw that it it doesn't work so I got a 250GB regular 970 EVO for now. I still get a hang sometimes because it's connected.
How do you get stuck on installation? does it just freeze or restarts?