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Fight the price rises on SSDs with this 31% saving on Samsung's brilliant 1TB 990 Pro SSD — now $219 at Amazon, lowest price since April
It feels like a dystopian future, with all the apocalyptic pricing on memory and storage. Products that were as low as $59 in 2023 are asking $319 in today's market. Today's tech deal isn't a deal; it's a PSA about a slight dip in pricing for PC/Console users who are looking for an SSD immediately, and want the best product, at the best available price in the current market climate. Samsung's impressive 1TB 990 Pro SSD is $219.99 at Amazon, saving you $100 (31%) off the $319.99 listing price. This is the lowest price for this model of the Samsung 990 Pro due to this discount, since early April of this year.
The Samsung 990 Pro is a PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSD offering maximum sequential read speeds of 7,450 MB/s and sequential write speeds of 6,900 MB/s with random reads/writes at 1.2 million and 1.55 million IOPS, respectively. It uses a 176-layer V-NAND TLC flash chip and comes with a rated endurance of 600 TBW (1TB model).
The Samsung 990 Pro 1TB SSD is compatible with PCIe 4.0 x4 interfaces and can reach read/write speeds of up to 7,450/6,900 MB/s. The drive uses a Samsung Pascal controller and comes with a 5-year warranty.
We had the opportunity to review the Samsung 990 Pro SSD back in 2022, and we were delighted with our experience, rating it at 4.5 out of 5 stars for its performance. We tested the 2TB model, and as you can see from our benchmark chart below, it came top in all the tests against the currently available competition that we had also tested.
The Samsung 990 Pro is one of the best PCIe Gen 4 SSDs available and an easy recommendation for use in any top-tier gaming PC or for use in a PlayStation 5 console. The only negative of this drive is the inflated price due to the ongoing AI and data center rollouts impacting the memory and storage industry. As I mentioned earlier, this isn't a deal in the traditional sense, but if you're on the hunt for an amazing SSD for a console or system right now, then this is the cheapest it's been in a few months, and a cool $100 cheaper than its peak price.
Stewart Bendle is a deals and coupon writer at Tom's Hardware. A firm believer in “Bang for the buck” Stewart likes to research the best prices and coupon codes for hardware and build PCs that have a great price for performance ratio.
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1TB 990 Pro 'discounted'
Price / GB $0.22
2TB 990 Pro
Price / GB $0.19 Discounted, and still a ripoff. The 2TB model is a better value per GB by approximately 16%, yet still not a great buy at the current prices. Plus, Samsung might not even honor the warranty in these trying times, yet that's one of the reasons customers pay premium pricing on a high-end product!
A'ight, I get it, Tom's is advertising for Samsung, I can just ignore it...
So, I haven't updated the Magician software in at least a year, but the newer updates at the time started including ad banners!
That was scummy Samsung...
