The Samsung 990 Pro is insanely fast, and it comes with a swath of features. If you're looking for a PS5 SSD, however, you're not seeing the best of the drive.
Samsung 990 Pro MSRP $180.00 Score Details “Let's not mince words — the Samsung 990 Pro is insanely fast.” Pros Cons I won’t waste your time here. The Samsung 990 Pro is the best SSD you can buy right now. It’s crazy fast, particularly when it comes to large file transfers, and despite a relatively high price, Samsung justifies the cost with extra features that few other brands go out of their way to fuss with.
Pricing and specs Samsung has remained the go-to brand for NVMe SSD for many years, and it’s clear why. You’re getting close to the maximum bandwidth of a PCIe 4.0 x4 interface, with Samsung touting sequential read speeds of up to 7,450MB/s. My testing backs up Samsung’s claims, making this one of the fastest PCIe 4.0 SSDs you can currently buy.
Most modern motherboards have heatsinks for the SSD drives, and in fact, the extra heatsink size can interfere with your other components. This is really a drive built for other applications, such as the PS5 Pro, or a mini PC with enough space but no heatsink, such as the Minisforum AtomMan G7 Ti. Beyond performance, you have encryption options, data migration, and a proper erase function. This will restructure all of the data on the drive so it can’t be recovered with forensics.
In games, however, the 990 Pro 2TB with heatsink actually fell behind the pack. Both the SN5000 and regular 990 Pro posted better results in 3DMark — which actually loads games through the benchmark — and Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail. The 2TB 990 Pro isn’t far behind, and when we’re talking about margins of half a second, you’ll never notice a meaningful difference in performance. On paper, however, it’s a bit behind.
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