SAMSUNG 990 Pro 1TB NVMe M.2 Internal SSD, PCIe Gen 4.0 x4, NVMe 2.0 Interface, 7450 MB/s Sequential Read Speed, 6900 MB/s Sequential Write Speed, V-NAND 3-bit MLC
- Samsung NVMe SSD powered by newly designed in-house controller
- Up to 7,450 / 6,900 MB/s sequential read/write speed Power efficient SSD
- Experience performance of PCIe® Gen 4.0.
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Key specifications
- Capacity
- 1 TB
- Form factor
- M.2
- Storage type
- Internal SSD
Details
- Shipping Weight
- 0.10 Kg
- Shipping Dimensions
- 2.00 cm x 14.50 cm x 10.00 cm
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Ella O. Used for: Less than a month
Pros
Pulls ahead on anything that moves a lot of data at once
Cons
The premium is hard to feel in everyday use
Comment
Solid drive, no complaints on performance, but be aware of what you are paying for. Against the Gen4 drive it replaced the difference in actual use is small. Boot went from ten seconds to eight. Game loading is a second or two quicker. Where it does pull ahead is any job that moves a lot of data at once, and if that is not what you do then a cheaper drive would serve you just as well.
Millie K. Used for: Less than a month
Pros
Cloned and booted in a single evening
Comment
Straight swap for the boot drive in a laptop that was running out of room. Cloned, booted, done in an evening, and the fan spins up less than it used to!
Jack R. Used for: 6–12 months
Pros
Quickest drive I have owned
Cons
Priced accordingly
Comment
Quickest drive I have owned and it has not missed a beat in eight months
Oscar L. Used for: 6–12 months
Cons
Runs hot enough to think twice about in a laptop
Comment
Does everything asked of it and then some. Boot, load, copy, all instant enough that I have stopped thinking about storage, which is the highest praise a drive gets. The heat is real though, and in a laptop I would think carefully before fitting one.
Jack S. Used for: Less than a month
Pros
Benchmarks land where the box says they should
Comment
Fresh build, this went in as the only drive and Windows was installed and updated inside half an hour. Benchmarks landed at 7180 read and 6820 write which is close enough to the box figures for me. Sits at 39 degrees idle with the motherboard heatsink, no fan needed
Poppy H. Used for: 6–12 months
Pros
The cache holds up on genuinely large copies
Cons
Overkill if all you do is game
Comment
Nine months of daily use and the only reason I am writing now is that a friend asked whether it was worth the premium over the cheaper Gen4 drives. Short answer, if you write large files it is. The cache on this holds up far longer than the budget drives I have used. Copying a 200GB project folder it held above 1.5GB/s the whole way where the drive it replaced fell to 400MB/s a third of the way in. For gaming alone, honestly, you would not notice the difference and the money is better spent elsewhere. It also runs hot enough that I would not put it in the slot under the graphics card without a proper heatsink, mine idles at 42 and peaks in the sixties.
Willow C. Used for: 3–6 months
Pros
Behaves exactly like its bigger sibling
Cons
Warm under a long copy
Comment
Bought on the strength of the 2TB one already in this machine. Same drive, same behaviour, half the capacity and rather less money!
Henry F. Used for: 3–6 months
Pros
Even browsing a huge photo folder feels quicker
Cons
Wants a slot with some airflow over it
Comment
Replaced a failing 970 Evo that had started throwing errors in the event log, and the upgrade was worth doing beyond just the repair. The machine feels quicker in small ways that are hard to benchmark, like the file explorer opening a folder of ten thousand photos without the pause it used to have. Big game updates apply in half the time, and four months in the benchmarks read the same as they did on day one. It does want airflow, and if your second M.2 slot has nothing over it, use the first.
George C. Used for: 6–12 months
Pros
Wear indicator has barely moved under heavy photo work
Cons
The Samsung software insists on installing the whole suite
Comment
Used as the scratch and cache drive for photo work, which means it gets written to far harder than a normal games drive would. Lightroom previews build noticeably faster and a batch export of three hundred raw files finishes while I am still making tea. The drive sits under the board heatsink at 45 degrees under that load, which is fine, and I have never seen it throttle. Seven months of that treatment and the wear indicator has moved by one per cent. My only complaint is that the Samsung software wants to install a whole suite when all I wanted was the firmware updater.
Arthur P. Used for: 3–6 months
Pros
The PS5 took it without a murmur
Cons
A terabyte does not go far in a console
Comment
Went into a PS5 because the console's own 825GB was down to nothing after four games. Fitting it was easier than the videos suggest, one screw, and the console formatted it in under a minute. Games installed to the expansion load at the same speed as the internal drive as far as I can tell, and the console has never flagged a temperature warning with a cheap heatsink on it. Four rather than five only because a terabyte disappears quicker than you expect with modern games.
Oliver L. Used for: 3–6 months
Pros
Flight sim loads in a third of the old time
Cons
Needs a heatsink you supply yourself
Comment
Cold boot is under eight seconds and the big flight sim loads in about a third of the old time
