Customer Ratings & Reviews

So far pretty good. Haven't had any major issues yet, drive is a definitive upgrade from the 1tb I was rocking before. Have more space for games to play with friends and more peace of mind when it comes to storage. Highly recommend.

I set up the Samsung 990 EVO Plus as a second hard drive in my Asus ROG G814 gaming laptop. The G814 shipped with a WD PC SN740 SDDP 1TB drive which closely matches the performance of the 990 EVO Plus. Hence, I did not feel it was worth my time to clone my boot drive to the 990 EVO Plus. It did not take me long to fill the drive up with games, applications, and files. I did already have a Samsung 980 1TB drive as a second drive which was replaced by the 990 EVO Plus. Installing the 990 EVO Plus was straight forward. First, I offloaded my files from my older Samsung 980, removed the old drive from the laptop, replaced it with the new drive, and then rebooted the system. The Bios recognized the drive, asked me to accept the new settings, and then the system booted to Windows. Windows detected the drive and allowed me to partition and format the drive. I chose to partition the whole 2GB as a single drive. Performance: The max performance for my laptop appears to be between 5.5GB. At least that is the max benchmarked read performance reported by Samsung’s Magician built in benchmarking tool. Real world performance is a more complicated story. Burst data reads and writes range between 2.5GB/s and 3.5GBs for about a minute. After a minute then the drive takes a dive to between 400MB/s to 700MB/S. The performance can drop again If the read or write is sustained. I ran a few torture tests that lasted upwards of 10 minutes. Essentially, extended read/write operations are terrible. This will not impact my games, photo editing, or documents I work on. Load times will seldom exceed the burst data rate window. If I were doing video encoding, then this would move up to the non-EVO version of the 990. I created three folders: 3GB Video files, 800MB video files, and 30K photos and files. Each folder contained at least 100GB of data. I did a drive-to-drive copy and an inter-drive data copy with each folder. Moving data from the 990 EVO Plus to my boot drive had the best sustained performance than any of the other tests. Moving the same folders from the boot drive to the 990 EVO Plus showed a bit slower sustained performance but good enough for my needs. Folder to folder copy was a different story. Making a copy of each of the three folders followed the same pattern. Burst data rate of 2.5GB/s to 3.5GB/s was sustained for about 60 seconds. Then the data rate would nosedive to 400MB/s to 500MB/s. The step down in sustained data rates dropped twice during the 30K file run. I included a photo with the Windows Explorer file copy graphs for reference. My conclusion is that burst data rates are excellent. Loading games, game levels, and swapping other content from the drive to memory are excellent. This is mostly due to the short transactional nature of the content. I played the likes of Diablo IV, Mechwarrior 5: Clans, MWO, Fortnite, and several other games from Xbox Game Pass, Steam, EA, and Blizzard without any stuttering or other odd behavior. Load times were really good. Some Numbers: I posted a photo of the file transfer tests I conducted using Windows Explorer. There is some overhead to Windows Explorer file copy that would explain some of the performance results but not all of it. My Asus ROG Strix 18 has two full sized SSD drive slots. The primary drive space has a WD PC SN740 SDDP 1TB drive. My second drive was a Samsung SSD 980 1TB drive. The 980 was replaced by the 990 EVO Plus. WD PC SN740 SDDP: Sequential Read MB/s 3514, Sequential Write MB/s 2820, Random Read IOPS 191894, Random Write IOPS 103271. Samsung SSD 980: Sequential Read MB/s 4277, Sequential Write MB/s 4166, Random Read IOPS 195556, Random Write IOPS 109130. 990 EVO Plus: Sequential Read MB/s 5500, Sequential Write MB/s 5066, Random Read IOPS 148925, Random Write IOPS 105957. Conclusion: I think the 990 EVO Plus is a good choice for gaming, storage, and photo editing. The drive should work for video editing but not in instances where sustained data rates are required.

Got to but in an Asus Ally Xbox. Just swapped out the M.2's. Plenty fast and a lot more room for games and other software. Samsung M.2's have always been good for me. Fast and plenty of storage.

This SSD is impressively fast and incredibly easy to install. It works seamlessly and boosts overall system performance. Highly recommend!

Can't believe what a difference this ssd has made. My boot time went from 3 minutes to about 30 seconds or less. It took a little research to find out how to change the bias to boot from the new ssd D drive rather than the old C drive. Found the proceedure on Google. After the boot, the ssd D drive is now the C drive. I used Samsung Magician to transfer the data from the old hard drive to the ssd. I had 625 GB's to transfer from the hard drive to the ssd and it took it , believe it or not, 19 1/2 hours to complete. Everything runs much faster now and I don't have any more low memory alerts. This ssd makes all the difference in the world.

This beautiful piece of technology went into an m.4 slot in my computer, and the rest was history! Faster laod times, much more storage than just a single terabyte, and it mounted neatly to my motherboard. What's not to love? AND! It's at least 10 dollars cheaper in store as of writing this review than ordering it via amazon and paying for shipping, so that is a big win in my book. Way to go Best Buy!

I also bought an Insignia M.2 NVMe to USB-C SSD enclosure for the Samsung 990 EVO Plus SSD 2T to do backups. The installation of the SSD and the SSD enclosure was very easy. Previously, I had upgraded my HHD to the same Samsung SSD EVO Plus SSD 2TB. The backups go very fast and so far no issues. Very happy too!!

Installation was quick and simple, and my system booted up noticeably faster right away. It’s perfect for gaming or everyday use, with fast read/write speeds and reliable performance. Definitely a great upgrade if you’re looking to boost your computer’s speed without spending a ton. Highly recommend!

Very good storage very fast and good space quality and price

It is speedy fast, reliable, and super high capacity just as advertised!

Great storage devise fast and easy to install enough room to store many games or pictures or videos.

Great price. Worked as expected. I did in store pickup made it a breeze to get the part I needed quickly. This drive is pretty fast. I'm using it solely for my steam library and it's been working great.

Decently fast, get the Pro version if you want top speeds. Samsung knows what they're doing with these drives, which is why they stay in the top end for performance and reliability. Installed Windows from USB3 stick in about 5 minutes. Not all NVME's are made the same and I am lucky I found a USB3 stick that actually performs anywhere near USB3 speeds, but I was shocked it went so fast. I had a 970 Evo in my previous build for 5-6 years and never had any problems so expecting the same reliability.

Great ssd, i upgraded from a 1 tb hard drive to this soo i can tell there is a huge difference, soo far im loving it. 100% recommended

When it come to straight to it. What can you go wrong when choosing this sucker of a ssd! Fast, efficient and easy to install. Speeds compete with similar prices but it is well put together! EVO!

Works great, good speeds for the price. Not much to say other than Samsung makes good stuff.

Easy to install, very fast, more space in computer. Good sale price.

Good storage nvme with plenty of storage and very fast write speeds.

I bought this in store on sale. I put in my friends PC for him. It works great, and the boot times are quick. Cant go wrong with a Samsung SSD.

I have used this drive for about 6 months and have zero issues! I have used it in multiple systems and even closed a whole C: drive to it. The heatsink was very impressive in preventing thermal throttling. I would highly recommend this for anyone looking to buy a 2TB SSD!