Samsung 990 PRO 2TB PCIe 4.0 (up to 7450 MB/s) NVMe M.2 (2280) Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) (MZ-V9P2T0BW)

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In the PCMark 10 Overall Storage benchmark, which measures a drive's speed in everyday tasks such as loading games and launching the Windows operating system and assorted applications, the 990 Pro with heatsink had the high score among our comparison group of PCI Express 4.0 SSDs, besting the SK Hynix Platinum P41 as well as the non-heatsink Samsung SSD 990 Pro (which used the motherboard's heatsink in our testing). Its scores were also slightly higher than those of the non-heatsink 990 Pro in nearly all of the PCMark trace tests, which evaluate some of the individual components that go into the overall score. clienttons-s.akamaihd.net, 54-246-30-86_s-23-203-249-90_ts-1604429594-clienttons-s.akamaihd.net, 54-246-30-86_s-23-203-249-90_ts-1604433473-clienttons-s.akamaihd.net, 54-246-30-86_s-23-203-249-90_ts-1604433539-clienttons-s.akamaihd.net, 54-246-30-86_s-88-221-134-224_ts-1604435698-clienttons-s.akamaihd.net, 54-246-30-86_s-95-101-129-96_ts-1604424926-clienttons-s.akamaihd.net, clienttons-s.akamaihd.net, 34-242-207-243_s-23-203-249-90_ts-1604427797-clienttons-s.akamaihd.net, 34-242-207-243_s-23-203-249-90_ts-1604438922-clienttons-s.akamaihd.net, 34-242-207-243_s-23-203-249-90_ts-1604438968-clienttons-s.akamaihd.net, 34-242-207-243_s-23-203-249-90_ts-1604439033-clienttons-s.akamaihd.net, 34-242-207-243_s-23-203-249-90_ts-1604441023-clienttons-s.akamaihd.net, Enjoy up to 50% improved performance per watt over 980 PRO, plus optimal power efficiency with max PCIe® 4.0 performance. clienttons-s.akamaihd.net, 684dd305.akstat.io, 684dd306.akstat.io, 684dd307.akstat.io, 684dd308.akstat.io, 684dd309.akstat.io, 684dd30a.akstat.io, 684dd30c.akstat.io, 684dd30d.akstat.io, 6852bd07.akstat.io, 6852bd08.akstat.io, 6852bd09.akstat.io, 6852bd0a.akstat.io, 6852bd0b.akstat.io, 6852bd0c.akstat.io, 6852bd0d.akstat.io, 6852bd0e.akstat.io, 6852bd0f.akstat.io, 6852bd10.akstat.io, 6852bd11.akstat.io, 6852bd12.akstat.io,

In terms of sheer speeds, Kingston’s Fury Renegade is perhaps the closest challenger to the Samsung 990 Pro, though the victor of this comparison will largely depend on what is more valuable to you: Kingston’s drive will have slightly slower read speeds of 7,300 MB/s and slightly faster 7,000 MB/s write speeds compared to Samsung's latest and greatest. Samsung 990 Pro: Should you buy it?This is ultimately a high-performance SSD, so if your priority is price, this might be a bit more SSD than your budget can accommodate. Fortunately, the Samsung 980 and Samsung 970 Evo are both much more affordable alternatives if you’re looking for a Samsung SSD on a budget. Samsung Magician software's user-friendly suite of optimisation tools always gets you the best SSD performance. With the 990 Pro, Samsung has gone from competent and reliable performer with the prior generation 980 Pro to a competitive beast with the 990 Pro that crushes the competition.

PRO offers sequential* read/write speeds up to 7,450/6,900 MB/s reaching near the max performance of PCIe® 4.0. Random Read (4 KB, QD32) Up to 1,400,000 IOPS * Performance may vary based on system hardware & configurationDirectStorage technology from Microsoft loads games faster than before by leveraging the multiple GB/sec speed of modern NVMe SSDs. el3lnwiccuqxax5btzpq-pbifp1-07760bdf0-clientnsv4-s.akamaihd.net, el3lnwiccuqxax5bu23q-p2ez1a-7d289db29-clientnsv4-s.akamaihd.net, el3lnwixzp4swx5bs5pq-pnfw20-03cb87b70-clientnsv4-s.akamaihd.net, el3lnwixzp4swx5bsryq-p52tb9-f3dab0dd0-clientnsv4-s.akamaihd.net, el3lnwixzp4swx5bu35q-pdannf-fd1139023-clientnsv4-s.akamaihd.net, el3lnwixzp4swx5buxna-pyccr1-f710a073b-clientnsv4-s.akamaihd.net, el3lnwky3wdkax5bsxbq-p3hn9l-a2a7437e4-clientnsv4-s.akamaihd.net,

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Samsung regains its speed crown

With the 990 Pro, Samsung has regained its speed crown, and this is arguably one of the fastest, if not the fastest, drives on the market today. And that’s without the company even switching to the even faster PCIe Gen 5 specifications! On paper, the biggest downside to the 990 Pro is its continued reliance on the now-aging PCIe Gen 4 specifications. Prior to the launch of the 990 Pro, there was hopeful anticipation that Samsung would make the leap to the newer PCIe Gen 5 standard for its latest flagship SSD, but that wasn’t the case. Still, Samsung managed to squeeze a lot of extra performance out of the Gen 4 technology, and the strategy to stay loyal to a tried and tested standard may not be all entirely bad news despite Gen 5’s promise of delivering twice the speeds. On the other hand, the 3,645 points it scores in PCMark 10 storage is very impressive compared to other drives tested on the same AMD platform running an eight-core 3800X CPU. Most if not all the competition is around the 3,000 mark. It’s also a huge jump on the 2,700 points scored by the old Samsung 980 Pro, albeit that figure is for the 1TB model. Just note that CPU and broader platform performance do impact the overall PCMark storage result. So, you can’t compare that result with random PCMark storage scores you might find for other drives on the web. Using the same CrystalDiskMark utility, the 990 Pro scored an average of 4,123.1 MB/s on the read tests. Average write speeds for the 990 Pro is 3,574.4 MB/s.