Customer Ratings & Reviews

Installed it in my ps5 and 2 days later my ps5 crashed

Let me start by saying wowzers, this thing is fast!! I installed my 2tb 990 Pro NVMe drive on a PCIe Gen 4 capable port on my MSI Z690 Tomahawk DDR4 motherboard. The rest of my setup includes an Intel i5-12600k CPU and 16GB of Corsair DDR4 RAM. My computer is mainly used at a home file server/media and Plex server/virtual machine host/parttime gaming PC. Since I use the PC as a media server, it tends to be left on 24/7...so keeping my power usage down is of upmost importance for me. Adding this NVME drive to my PC was simple: insert the drive into an open PCIe Gen 4 slot, and screw in the tiny bolt. I used MiniTool Partition Wizard to move my Windows 11 Pro install from my previous Samsung sata SSD to the new 990 Pro drive. It honestly took about 5 minutes total to move about 450GB worth of data and make the new drive bootable for Windows. I removed the SATA device for use in another system, just FYI. One of the major "Pro's" of this drive is the Samsung Magician drive software. While it didn't show me needing a firmware upgrade, it's definitely an easy process. It also will test and display your drive speed (which you see in pictures in other reviews....uhh, it's fast...like super-fast). A few fun tibits pertaining to my use as a full-time server and part-time gamer: 1) Just for fun, I created 4 Hyper-v virtual pc's with Windows 11. I then attempted to stifle the drive by unzipping a 30GB file on all four virtual computers at the same time. Using the host PC's Task Manager app I monitored the drive and CPU. Both did amazingly well; however, it looked to me like the CPU was the reason for all slowdowns. 7-Zip only slowed when the CPU usage approached the high 80s and into the 90s percentile. I'm not sure I could do anything to truly cause this drive issues. 2) During gameplay, I never really noticed this drive providing better or worse performance. Perhaps it's the games I play (typically fighting games like Capcom vs Marvel, e.g.) or how I play them (usually in "Vs. Computer Mode")...but the game always played as I was used to. I will say that launching Steam was much faster, and launching the game itself from Steam was much, much quicker than from my old sata ssd. 3) Power usage in idle compared the sata drive was pretty similar, perhaps 1 or 2w lower at times. It's always hard to tell as the background processes in Windows continually cause minor power fluctuations. However, something to be aware of is the fact that when in use, the drive again consumes about the same amount of wattage as the SSD....but keeping in mind that this NVMe drive operates at much, much faster speeds make this drive more efficient per watt (which is something Samsung has mentioned in their marketing for the 990 Pro). That marketing definitely holds up! I do have one gripe about the 990 Pro drives though, and that is the price(s). You can definitely find less expensive Gen 4 PCIe NVME drives. Now, they may not be as fast or as reliable as Samsung's chips, but at what point does the difference in speed matter? Well, the answer to that question lies with each consumer. I tend to stick with Samsung due to the reliability of their memory chips, but I could totally see the point of someone who steers away from the higher prices. In the end, I give Samsung the benefit of the doubt and I'm usually willing to overlook the extra few bucks. This 990 Pro NVMe drive is utterly fantastic, and I can't recommend it enough.

Recently bought a 2TB 990pro for less than a 1TB 980pro. Going to use it in a QNAP NAS, so it will cap out at Gen3 speeds, but the 990pro has a number of things that outclass the 980pro regardless of speed; the 990pro: -is ~50% more efficient with power management, so it runs cooler and uses less energy. -it uses 7th gen V-NAND technology instead of 6th gen, resulting in better sustained performance. -improved thermal management plus a heatsink option (recommended). -newer Pascal controller vs the older Elpsis; this also contributes to better performance. -I am not using it for gaming, but it has an enhanced Gaming Mode 2.0, that the 980pro does not have. Regarding speed, even being capped at Gen3, the 990pro is more performant than the 980pro: 990pro: Up to 1.4M IOPS (random read). Up to 1.55M IOPS (random write). 980pro: Up to 1M IOPS (random read). Up to 1M IOPS (random write). The newer Pascal controller and 7th-gen V-NAND improve sustained performance, especially under heavy or extended workloads, like for VMs, which is one of my primary use cases.

Samsung drives have consistently had the reputation for being among the highest performing nvme drives on the market; their 980 pro was for the longest time the best of the best. The 980 pro has long been eclipsed by the introduction of PCIe gen 5 drives (albeit at generally eye watering prices). However, the 980 pro has also been eclipsed by another gen 4 drive; enter the 990 pro. While the 990 pro was designed to be used in a PS5, I'm using it in my primary gaming PC, powered by an AMD 5900x, on an Asus Dark Hero motherboard. The board has only two native gen 4 nvme slots, but I'm running an additional nvme via a PCIe expansion card as well. Currently I'm running a 1tb 980 pro, a 2 tb WD black sn850, and now this 2tb 990 pro. My main work flows include gaming, video and audio production, and 4k video editing. To test out the new drive, I ran some synthetic tests using CrystalDiskMark just to get some baselines. These tests confirmed that the 990 is mostly faster than the 980 (and sn850 as well). One interesting note here is that I was actually seeing slightly lower read speeds on the 990, but write and latency numbers were across the board improved by up to 20 percent. In my experience, this seems to align with real world performance. Exporting a 4k video clip upwards of 20gb saw me saving time on the order of minutes with the 990. Overall, if you're someone that does a lot of content creation, you'll like benefit from the 990s increase in performance. Overall, the 990 pro continues Samsung's precedent of having some of the best drives on the market. Here, they've demonstrated an acumen for stretching the limits of an aging PCIe gen 4 protocol. Whether you're upgrading your aging pc or looking to boost your ps5, the 990 pro is a great option that unlocks the full potential of your hardware.

I tested this in a new PC that I'm building. With an ASUS TUF Gaming-PlusWiFi motherboard, an I9-13900K CPU (not overclocked), and with the SSD socketed in a gen4x4 socket (not the closest to the CPU), I ran some tests using winsat (on Windows 11). Random reads clocked in at 2562.78 MB/second. That's an OK, but not spectacular number. Sequential reads ran at 6214.41 MB/second while the sequential write number was 6778.22 MB/second. The write number is larger than the read number because of the large memory cache. These are respectable numbers, but not really as good as I expected even though the 95th percentile latency was an incredible 0.089 milliseconds. Winsat uses very small blocks for testing. I then ran CrystalDiskMark and got the expected results: sequential 128k reads at 7100 MB/second, sequential 128K writes at 6872 MB/second, random 4K reads 5742 MB/second, and random 4K writes at 4949 MB/second. Those are world class numbers. They're about 5%-10% faster than my 4TB Western Digital Black SSD. Now, I didn't run these in the M.2 slot nearest the CPU and I would expect even higher numbers there, but I'd have to remove the heat sink to run test and I'm happy with the performance where it is.

Works, installed fine, fast. Price a bit high nowadays, but that's everywhere

Very fast nvme ssd. No problems so far. Installation was easy.

I bought this for my PlayStation five and it was easy to install and works amazingly

It’s a good price for the storage you get and it loads all my games pretty fast

So far it has performed flawlessly. And since it was a Christmas gift and ordered at the last minute, I can say that the shipping was awesome! Very fast.

Works as advertised super simple install. I used it for my PS5 and followed the YouTube video that the QR code took me too. After install you will need to format it and set up how everything transfer's. After that good to good.

Purchased this hard drive to upgrade an aging Alienware laptop. It is working great after the initial set up.

Fast NVMe. It says for PS5 but I use it on the desktop and its great. I have used other brand (sabrent) and it did not last long. Samsung NVMe SSDs have been working a lot longer for me.

My husband loves his new storage!!! I really had a great experience using curbside pickup, very respectful and kind associate assisted me, thank you!!!

The store was sold out but they restocked in time for me to gift this at Christmas. Curbside pick up was fast and easy.

it works great, the installation into my ps5 was super easy & quick. Definitely recommend it to anyone on the fence about it.

Very good piece of hardware install was super easy did not come with screws though so be warned

Extremely fast and runs cool too!!! No reason to upgrade if you have the 980 pro but a must buy otherwise. 100% recommend ot

Works great with my ps5 so much more room for my games would recommend to others

Great storage with fast speed. If you looking for something with a great price. This is it.