Samsung 990 Pro 2 TB

W1zzard · Aug 8, 2023

Samsung 990 Pro is the company's flagship M.2 NVMe SSD. Compared to the 980 Pro, it comes with an improved controller and more modern flash. Our review confirms: this is the fastest PCI-Express 4.0 drive you can buy right now, beating the competition from WD, Phison and Solidigm.

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P4-630 · Aug 8, 2023

If I need a new OS drive , or even for my games, but for now not needed...

oxrufiioxo · Aug 8, 2023

Glad I didn't swap all my 980 pros for these. I wonder if the next drive will be called 1000 pro lol.

Steevo · Aug 8, 2023

Just bought one.

Ravenmaster · Aug 8, 2023

Been using 2 of these 2TB 990 Pro's in RAID0 since they came out. They've performed really well so far.

mahanddeem · Aug 8, 2023

Which sensor do you refer to when you mention "onboard thermal sensor"?
HWInfo64 reports 3 readings (the 3rd being always the hottest).

THU31 · Aug 8, 2023

I find it kind of impressive that those small NAND chips can hold 1 TB of data each, and the DRAM chip that's roughly half the size can only hold 1 GB.

I wonder just how far they can go with NAND flash.

b1k3rdude · Aug 8, 2023

So last week I bought and tested 4x, 2Tb PCIe 4.0 SSD's on my MSI MEG X570 ACE w/5900x -

WD SN850X
Samsung 990 pro
Sabrent Rocket 4 plus-g
Kingstone Fury Renegade - forgot to save a screenshot from CMD for this drive.

I ended going with the Sabrent as it was just a better overall drive than the Samsung, due to its superior write endurance. As in after the SLC cache was exhausted, the perf dosent drop through the floor like the 990 does. It will stay at 3500MB/s for around 850 seconds and only then does it drop to 1000MB/s, eg what the 990 pro hits after 50 seconds - https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/sabrent-rocket-4-plus-g-ssd-review/2

I also was wary of the issue with the f/w issue on the 980/990 series, Samsung say they have resolved the issue, but I didnt really want to deal any potential issues down the line.

Ravenmaster said:
Been using 2 of these 2TB 990 Pro's in RAID0 since they came out. They've performed really well so far.View attachment 308183

What is up with the random r/w's...? they are both massivly down....

W1zzard · Aug 8, 2023

mahanddeem said:
Which sensor do you refer to when you mention "onboard thermal sensor"?
HWInfo64 reports 3 readings (the 3rd being always the hottest).

I'm seeing two in AIDA64, the 2nd one, seems to be controller temperature

BorisDG · Aug 8, 2023

The ram is 2GB, not 1GB. 1GB is for the 1TB.

Makaveli · Aug 8, 2023

Can you add the 2TB SN850X I just added one to my system

bug · Aug 9, 2023

Ravenmaster said:
Been using 2 of these 2TB 990 Pro's in RAID0 since they came out. They've performed really well so far.View attachment 308183

They perform terribly, your QD1 speed is slower than a single drive. But if in 2023 you still think RAIDing SSDs is a good idea, more power to you.

Chry · Aug 9, 2023

Using 990 pro 1Tb as my main drive. Kinda happy I picked it.
However, when I got it, it had the old firmware that makes the drive slowly die. Luckily first thing I did (before even installing OS) was updating the firmware via Samsung USB firmware update boot.
Still, this is a shame, since I bought the disk several months after the problem was fixed, so they didn't bother returning the drives from the market and updating them (I guess they did the calculations before choosing the most profitable move)

But anyway, good drive. Love the synergy with a snappy CPU.

Makaveli · Aug 9, 2023

bug said:
They perform terribly, your QD1 speed is slower than a single drive. But if in 2023 you still think RAIDing SSDs is a good idea, more power to you.

I Raid O two 1TB samsung 860 Evo but not for the speed but because I want a single storage pool for games since thats my steam drive.

I understand the point you were trying to make though but I think for a games drive its safe. Still have a Raid 0 array with two Intel 160GB SSD's that is still running today and that is about 10 years old.

bug · Aug 9, 2023

Makaveli said:
I Raid O two 1TB samsung 860 Evo but not for the speed but because I want a single storage pool for games since thats my steam drive.

Even for that, you don't need a RAID setup, you can just use a junction point in Windows.

Makaveli · Aug 9, 2023

bug said:
Even for that, you don't need a RAID setup, you can just use a junction point in Windows.

nah I prefer to use AMD-Raid for it over a Junction point.

my raid array can survive windows reinstalls, bios updates etc. And basically created this one 5 years ago and its set and forget no issues.

Space Lynx · Aug 9, 2023

I went yolo recently and got the WD SN850X 2TB for $118 brand new. sam can go sing somewhere else.

:rockout:

Makaveli said:
Can you add the 2TB SN850X I just added one to my system

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apparently it is the best gaming drive and beats 990 pro in 3dmark ssd test. saw a youtube review of it. :toast:

good taste we have mate

Makaveli · Aug 9, 2023

Space Lynx said:
I went yolo recently and got the WD SN850X 2TB for $118 brand new. sam can go sing somewhere else.

apparently it is the best gaming drive and beats 990 pro in 3dmark ssd test. saw a youtube review of it.

good taste we have mate

The Samsung drive not worth the Samsung tax in pricing for me in Canada.

I paid $169 CAD for the 2TB SN850X.

Space Lynx · Aug 9, 2023

Makaveli said:
The Samsung drive not worth the Samsung tax in pricing for me in Canada.

I paid $169 CAD for the 2TB SN850X.

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Western Digital has been rock solid and not needed firmware update to fix breaking drives either. We chose well my padawan.

Makaveli · Aug 9, 2023

Space Lynx said:
Western Digital has been rock solid and not needed firmware update to fix breaking drives either. We chose well my padawan.

wheresmycar · Aug 9, 2023

thanks @W1zzard

Great review at a great time.

I just recently picked up two 2TB Sammy 990 pros for an excellent discount. Its nice to see these sticks are holding up at the highest level.

Posted here in the 'What's your latest tech purchase?' thread:

wheresmycar said:
Was so close to pulling the trigger on x2 2TB WD850X or Solidigm p44 pro but got a sweet deal on two Samsung 990 PROs from staff discount. Tied in a 256gb flash drive too. For the SSDs, seeing earlier issues were resolved with firmware updates I'll make sure to update on installation.

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Ordered some time ago but received a couple of days ago:

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MKRonin · Aug 9, 2023

Where are the SK Hynix Platinum P41 and Western Digital 850X?

thunderingroar · Aug 9, 2023

Is this thing worth 30/40€ over Kingston KC3000 or WD SN850X?

Im not sure if its worth paying that samsung tax, especially considering some recent firmware issues they were having

Makaveli · Aug 9, 2023

Question this below is from @b1k3rdude above

This is the drive from today's review.

Why is there such a large difference in the RND4K Q32T16 numbers from the same drive?

Space Lynx · Aug 9, 2023

thunderingroar said:
Is this thing worth 30/40€ over Kingston KC3000 or WD SN850X?

Im not sure if its worth paying that samsung tax, especially considering some recent firmware issues they were having

Yes over the Kingston. Currently dealing with their warranty team on my dead kc3000 and they are ghosting me most of the time. Never buying Kingston again.

If all you do is game the sn850x is better, if you will actually use these speeds in proper workloads, the 990 pro is better. Depends on your use case imo.

@Makaveli good question, I also want to know this

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