Exploring Tech with Tom's Hardware Experts

Exploring Tech with Tom's Hardware Experts

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Unbeatable Deal on High-Performance 4TB Samsung 990 Pro PCIe 4.0 SSDs: Only 7 Cents per Gigabyte

The fastest PCIe Gen 4 drive you can buy, the 4TB Samsung 990 Pro offers extremely fast performance and whopping amounts of capacity in a single-sided M.2 2280 form factor. We cannot help but recommend this drive when it’s on offer, and currently, it’s on sale for one of its lowest prices in recent memory.

Ahead of Prime Day, you can find theSamsung 990 Pro 4TB SSD for just $299 or 7 cents per GB at Amazon as it’s currently reduced in a limited-time deal. I’ve found that the same price can also be had atNewegg andB&H Photo .

Wereviewed the 990 Pro 4TB when it was released, and not only is it one of the best 4TB SSDs on the market and among the best SSDs overall, but this SSD also boasts maximum sequential reads of 7,450 MB/s and sequential writes of 6,900 MB/s with random reads/writes coming in at 1.6 million and 1.55 million IOPS, respectively, while endurance is rated for 2,400 TBW.


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Samsung 990 Pro (4TB) SSD: now $299 at Amazon (was $464)

The Samsung 990 Pro 4TB is among the fastest Gen 4 SSDs available thanks to read and write speeds of up to 7450/6900 MB/s, almost maxing out the Gen 4 bandwidth. This M.2 NVMe drive comes in the 2280 form factor and holds enough capacity to store a large selection of your favorite games or files.

Random reads/writes come in at 1.6 million and 1.55 million IOPS, respectively, while endurance is rated for a respectable 2,400 TBW.

See ourreview of Samsung’s 990 Pro 4TB for more details.

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Samsung achieves its 4TB capacity using a 236-layer TLC V-NAND and uses a single-sided design, making it ideal for use in smaller setups - especially laptops of PlayStation 5 consoles where space is a premium.

When we tested the Samsung 990 Pro 4TB, we found it dominating the competition on almost every test. For example, on 3DMark’s storage test, it had the lowest latency, which is great for gaming.

Samsung 990 Pro 4TB 3DMark Storage Test

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The Samsung 990 Pro is also excellent at sustaining strong write performance. If you’re writing continuously for several minutes on most drives, you’ll notice a huge performance drop as the the data fills up the high-speed cache and ends up using the slower TLC NAND Flash. We test sustained write speeds using Iometer for 15 minutes.

In our tests, the 4TB 990 Pro was able to maintain a speed of 6.2 GB/s for 75 seconds thanks to its generous 10GB of pSLC cache. Once the data spills over into the TLC, it operates at a – strong, compared to most drives – 1.6 GB/s.

Samsung 990 Pro 4TB sustained write speeds

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The Samsung 990 Pro is also a leader in power efficiency, delivering 421.1 MB/s per watt. That number puts it ahead of all competitors but the Addlink A93 4TB and Lxar NM790 4TB.

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  • Title: Exploring Tech with Tom's Hardware Experts
  • Author: George
  • Created at : 2024-08-19 02:34:41
  • Updated at : 2024-08-20 02:34:41
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