Samsung is not just the go-to brand for smartphones, TVs, and fridges. The company has built a robust reputation in the SSD market, dominating external and internal storage with brilliant performance. If you’re looking to upgrade your storage with their latest tech, the 990 EVO Plus is an excellent choice.
Today, the 4TB version has dropped to $239 on Prime Big Deal Days from its regular price of $327. That’s a record-low for one of the quickest consumer SSDs available, and with 4TB of storage, you’ll have plenty of space to store massive game collections without constantly having to switch files back and forth.
Speed That Changes How You Work and Play
The 990 EVO Plus delivers up to 7,250 MB/s sequential read and up to 6,300 MB/s sequential write that puts it in high-performance territory. For some perspective on those numbers, you might be able to copy a 100GB game in about 16 seconds or transfer an entire 4K movie file in seconds. This performance results from Samsung’s latest NAND flash memory generation married with a nickel-coated controller that deals with data transfer efficiently.
The drive supports both PCIe 4.0 x4 and PCIe 5.0 x2 interfaces which gives you the flexibility based on your motherboard. The majority of current systems employ PCIe 4.0, where the drive can take its full performance potential. On newer PCIe 5.0 platforms, it uses two lanes instead of four and offers comparable speeds even as it prepares your system for down the road as increasingly more PCIe 5.0 motherboards reach the market.
Intelligent TurboWrite 2.0 tech is what keeps performance consistently good even while transferring enormous files. Standard SSDs bog down quite a bit when handling massive transfers due to them consuming their fast cache buffer. Samsung’s TurboWrite 2.0 allocates a larger buffer area dynamically based on the drive capacity. On this 4TB drive, that means you can achieve high writing speeds for a lot longer before any degradation kicks in.
Thermal management deserves a mention as high-speed SSDs generate a lot of heat, and overheating slows down the speed. The 990 EVO Plus has a nickel-coated controller that is better at conducting heat compared to standard materials. The coating spreads thermal energy across a greater surface area so that no hot spot forms to hinder the drive and protect itself. The increased efficiency also leads to the drive consuming less power for the same objectives of performance, which increases battery life in laptops.
This is one of the greatest value propositions in high-capacity NVMe storage currently on the market, make sure you don’t miss it.