On the performance front, the 2TB 990 Pro delivered excellent random read performance, beating a host of other 2TB PCIe 4.0 x4 drives in our testing. It was also relatively efficient in the process and good for battery-powered devices like a laptop, while also reducing thermal output. Samsung lists sequential reads at 7,450 MBps and 6,900 MBps, with IOPS at 1.4M and 1.55M reads/writes, respectively. The read speeds essentially max out the PCIe 4.0 x4 interface. It also has an endurance rating of 1,200 TBW, which is average for the generation and capacity. You’ll be hard-pressed to pass that metric unless you’re transferring gigabytes upon gigabytes of data daily.
Upgrade the storage in your PC, laptop, or PS5 with this wicked-fast 2TB Samsung 990 Pro PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSD. Recent price drops bring this speedy drive down to reasonable-for-the-times pricing and saving you $250 off the outlandish retail pricing.
At $389.99 , it isn’t the least expensive 2TB PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSD available, but it's one of the fastest of its kind for the interface (see results from our review below). If this one is too expensive and you don’t need 2TB capacity, the 1TB Samsung 990 Pro is also on sale for much less, $249.99 ($70 off). As you can imagine, these prices are vastly higher than they were a year ago, but we're seeing some reductions from the heady heights of earlier this year.
(Image credit: Future) (Image credit: Future) (Image credit: Future) (Image credit: Future) (Image credit: Future) Prices have stabilized, but show no sign of dropping any time soon. While this drive would have set you back just $140 last year, we've seen this model chart as high as $690 owing to the AI price crunch on RAM and SSDs.
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thisisaname Lowest price this has been is £110, before the AI mess around £120, no thanks to this "sale" Reply
DragonMSI $400 for 2 TB ON SALE??? 🤣🤣🤣 Try again in 2 years when NVME's don't cost triple what they used to. (A 4 year old design I might add) crazy work. Reply
Thunder64 Just checked camelcamelcamel and the price was pretty constant around $140-160 up to maybe $200 as of early this year. No thanks. Reply
ravewulf If it were the 4TB version for that price, I might be tempted. Not for 2TB though! It's a bad time to buy storage unless you absolutely have no other choice. Even then, the scales have tipped back in favor of small boot SSDs and using a hard drive for storage where possible. Reply
Rakanyshu Got that one under $200 USD more than 3 years ago when it was the latest thing out there… Reply
Phaaze88 I know I don't check this section that often, but y'all posted this drive being 'on sale' 10 bloody days ago: https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/samsung-990-pro-gets-discount-of-over-200-from-recent-highs-%E2%80%94-grab-the-2tb-model-for-429-99.3896128/ What are ya doin'… Reply
JayGau Total madness. I got the 4 TB version for less than this discounted price less than 2 years ago. GN may be right, we might be seeing the end of personal computers. Reply
Shiznizzle 2 TB 990 Evo Plus was 105 pounds on amazon UK last november when i got it. Just a month later my WD SN7100 was 130 pounds. At these prices the end of personal computing will be dead when machines start dying and not many want to pay these prices. Nobody is buying tech. Prices are set by demand. There is no demand so why are they still so high? Greed? Reply
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