I replaced my second solid state drive on my laptop with the Samsung 990. I had to remove the heatsink to make it fit. It was $10 cheaper at the time compared to the one without the heatsink. I honestly would have paid the extra $10 if I knew it would not fit and I would void the warranty if I removed the heatsink. I installed Zorin OS Pro Linux. It cost around $50. Normally most Linux Flavors (versions) are free. Zorin OS Pro is well worth the price. A few years ago I purchased the Pro and one of the Zorin Staff walked me through some custom scripting to get the Operating System to work on the computer I had at that time. It runs very fast and has a nice interface.