Expand your PC’s storage capacity with 4TB of blistering speed at a great price. Amazon dropped the price on the Samsung 990 Pro 4TB PCIe 4.0 M.2 NVMe solid state drive (SSD) with pre-installed heatsink to just $279.99 with free delivery. This is the lowest price I’ve seen this year and matches last year’s Black Friday deal. The Samsung 990 Pro is widely considered one of the fastest PCIe 4.0 SSDs on the market. It makes for an outstanding drop-in storage expansion for your PlayStation 5 or gaming rig.
The 990 Pro is Samsung’s fastest PCIe 4 SSD, boasting sequential speeds of 7,450MB/s read and 6,900MB/s write and random speeds of 1400K/1550K IOPS. There are faster PCIe 5 drives out there now (like Samsung’s own 9100 Pro) but they are a lot more expensive and complete overkill for gamers. All components are manufactured in-house, including the Samsung Pascal controller and 7th gen TLC NAND flash chips. The Samsung 990 Pro has a substantial 4GB of DRAM cache. Most SSDs nowadays don’t have any DRAM cache and instead rely on system memory as a buffer. A DRAM cache offers better write performance. Although gamers shouldn’t notice any performance difference either way, it’s still the preferred type of SSD to use as a boot drive for your PC.
The Samsung 990 Pro is an excellent SSD for your PS5. From a purely performance perspective, it’s overkill; the stock SSD in your PS5 will be the limiting factor. Your new PCIe Gen4 x4 M.2 solid state drive only needs to have speeds of up to 5,500MB/s for optimal performance and the 990 Pro is way faster. However, at the current price point, this SSD is cheaper than many slower options, so you might as well get it. This model also includes a slim PS5-compatible heatsink.
Looking for more options? Check out our favorite PS5 SSDs for the PS5 console.
Eric Song is the IGN commerce manager in charge of finding the best gaming and tech deals every day. When Eric isn’t hunting for deals for other people at work, he’s hunting for deals for himself during his free time.
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