Samsung's 990 Evo Plus M.2 SSD is currently available for bargain prices, but is it enough to beat the competition?
Despite having an enviable reputation in the consumer SSD market, Samsung is yet to offer a full-fat PCIe 5 M.2 SSD, instead limiting itself to PCIe 5 x2 rather than x4 bandwidth, which means that its new 990 Evo Plus offers speeds similar to those of current PCIe 4 SSDs. However, with the 990 Pro proving extremely popular, the cheaper 990 Evo Plus, could be the perfect alternative if you're looking to save cash so keep reading for the full Samsung 990 Evo Plus Review.
Right now, it's available on Amazon for just $140 for 2TB, which undercuts other popular models such as Crucial's T500 and P310 and 1TB and 4TB models are available too. The price has improved since its launch and today we're going see how it stacks up against those SSDs and the popular 990 Pro.
A key benefit in testing aside from speeds was that it ran a few degrees cooler than many other PCIe 4 SSDs. A heatsink of some sort is still advisable, especially if you want to throw hundreds of gigabytes at it on a regular basis. But topping out at 74Read More:Samsung 990 Evo Plus benchmark performance
In CrystalDiskMark the sequential performance was on par with the Crucial P310 although the write speed was lower than the fastest models out there such as the Samsung 990 Pro and Crucial T500, although most wouldn't likely notice the difference. Random 4K performance was mostly decent, with a read speed up there with the likes of the Crucial T500 and P310, although the 990 Pro was noticeably quicker here in the Q32T16 test. Q1T1 Random 4K performance was again on par with the rest of the stack here.The Samsung 990 Evo Plus was faster in both 3DMark game storage tests than the Crucial P310 and again kept pace with the Samsung 990 Pro too, although the Crucial T500 was a little quicker in these tests.
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