Customer Ratings & Reviews

SSDs are hitting the point of diminishing returns and the Samsung 990 Pro is no exception. On paper, this is a great drive. It has a built in heat sink, the sequential write and read speeds are well above the rest of the pack, and the size will keep you going for a while without needing to delete info. However, this is only part of the story and real world performance says spend your cash wisely elsewhere. The first part is will you need the heat sink or will it be a hindrance? On many modern PCs, the primary M.2 slot now comes with it's own built in heat sink. If that is the case for your system, then you'll need to give up something you already have for free, or you'll need to move this to a different slot which may not have a PCI-E Gen4 connection. For consoles, the heat sink will need to fit inside your gaming device, like it does for the PS5. If you plan on using this in an external enclosure, the heat sink will likely prevent you from installing the drive correctly and thus ruining your plans. Next we move on to the topic of speed. While this drive is great for sequential read and writes, it's random access falls short of other drives in its class, and that's not uncommon. Manufacturers will put in extra cache to improve sequential speeds on paper and then when the drive goes idle it will move items from cache to the slower parts of the drive. However, sequential access is more for moving large files in video editing or using as a dump drive for external media. For gaming, your best gains will be from random access as game files are almost never right next to each other. Even the best optimized games can only put some many files next to each other on a CD/DVD and when those get installed to a Hard Drive/SSD, all bets are off. This includes files being fetched for direct storage optimized games. And then there is the "will you notice factor". At the sequential read/write this is posting, it is unlikely that your SSD will be the bottle neck, and that is generally true of most high end M.2 drives. If the drive is your bottle neck, will the time difference of a few milliseconds of zone load time be worth the hit to your wallet? In many cases, probably not. With all that being said, this drive may have specific use case scenarios, and if you've got those scenarios, you're likely not reading this review. You've already made up your mind to buy it. For the rest, decide if you really need this drive or something with better random access. If you do need this speed, decide if you really need the heat sink. That money saved could be put towards your next game purchase.

Quick and easy install. Excellent way to extend your storage space.

Fast and I got it on sale so great price also. Only get this if it needs the heatsink.

Works great! Now i have plenty of storage on my ps5.

Perfect easy and effective option for increasing PS5 storage. My 1TB PS5 was not cutting it any longer. This stick is super easy to install using a YouTube video directly from PlayStation and you know you are getting quality from Samsung.

Works as intended. Plenty of space for gaming. Would Recommend.

Works amazingly; PS5 constantly has space for games and games run smoothly

It works great, has lots of storage and very easy to install

Perfect for the ps5 slim, got extra space for other games now and was easy to install

Easy install and set up. Speeds have been noticeably faster then the 3800mb I had before it.

The quality and price of this SSD are unbeatable. The 2 TB of extra storage is perfect for a young gamer. My son used to delete games just to make space for new games. Not anymore! Copying games and other saved data on the PS5 is easy and fast. Installing and formatting the drive was a breeze. The reliability and longevity of this manufacturers products made my choice of purchasing this SSD easy and without a second thought.

Bought this to expand the storage capacity of my PS5. Installation was so easy, and the console recognized the SSD immediately. Performed the read/write speed and it exceeded the spec values. Quite happy with this purchase

Excellent storage space, fast loading times. Well priced and slots in easily to PS5 systems.

This product was very easy to install and has worked flawlessly.

Easy to install. Worked perfectly fine with my ps5.

Works perfect on my ps5. Easy to install and games run as smooth as if they were downloaded in the ps5 internal storage. It’s super nice to not have to delete games to make room for new ones

Like so many others I have storage issues on my Ps5 due to its limited storage space. I've been hating having to pick which games to install and which to delete but this beast of a Ssd has solved that issue once and for all. I went with the 2tb model so between my PS5's regular storage and this SSD I have plenty of space. Most of my games are now on the SSD and zero issues running them, everything runs smooth and fast. This is an absolute must-have especially while on sale.

The extra 2TB's has been really nice. Doesn't come with any screws needed to install it but luckily I had some extras from previous upgrades.

good product, good services, works great, easy to install, plug it into the computer and it just worked, almost too easy, needed this for an emergency Windows reinstall

Great performing SSD. Plenty of space for my games and other files. Used this to replace the stock SSD on my ROG Ally X. After verifying that it would fit with the heatsink installed, I decided to purchase it although you’d probably be fine without a heatsink.