Get your hands on a 2TB Samsung 990 Pro SSD for under $390 — $250 savings brings one of the fastest PCIe 4.0 SSDs to its lowest price in months | Tom's Hardware
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With many of the combo deals on Newegg running out of steam, we came across this solid deal on one of the fastest PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSDs around: the 2TB Samsung 990 Pro. Currently on sale for $389.99 (from an eye-watering $639.99), you’ll save $250, an incredible 39% off, and have some cash leftover for other parts to update your PC, laptop, or PS5 (you will need a heatsink for this application). We reviewed this drive and loved its strong all-around performance, excellent software (Samsung Magician) and support, and the fact that it ran consistently, efficiently, and cool, making it a well-rounded storage option for any build.The Samsung 990 Pro 2TB is the successor to the popular 980 Pro, using the same 2280 form factor, the in-house Samsung Pascal controller, and V7 3-bit 176-layer V-NAND TLC flash. It promises to be faster and more efficient than the 980, and it is. The drive includes 2GB of LPDDR4 DRAM, which acts as a buffer to handle data bursts during large-file transfers and helps keep performance more consistent. It comes in two flavors: one with a heatsink (MZ-V9P2T0CW) and one without (MZ-V9P2T0CW), and it also comes with a 5-year warranty. • Check out this deal on Newegg or Amazon 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. Save 39% ($250)Samsung 990 Pro 2TB M.2 SSD: was $639.99 now $389.99 at NeweggUpgrade 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.View Deal 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 1 of 5(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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Joe ShieldsStaff Writer, ComponentsJoe Shields is a staff writer at Tom’s Hardware. He reviews motherboards and PC components.
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Lowest price this has been is £110, before the AI mess around £120, no thanks to this "sale"
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$400 for 2 TB ON SALE??? 藍藍藍 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.
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Just checked camelcamelcamel and the price was pretty constant around $140-160 up to maybe $200 as of early this year. No thanks.
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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.
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Got that one under $200 USD more than 3 years ago when it was the latest thing out there...
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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'...
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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.
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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?
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