SSD prices continue to fall in late 2024, as Samsung's 990 EVO Plus 4TB, offering speeds of up to 7.25 GB/s, has been slashed to $239.99 at Amazon. This is 6 cents per gigabyte, a great deal for gamers.
The 990 EVO Plus employs Samsung's proprietary 5nm-based Piccolo controller, which can be used in PCIe 4.0 x4 or PCIe 5.0 x2 configurations, depending on your setup. Likewise, it features a bleeding-edge 236-layer (V8) TLC V-NAND flash from Samsung - allowing it to achieve sequential read and write speeds of 7.25 GB/s and 6.3 GB/s. The random reads and writes, too, stand at an impressive 1,050K IOPS (Input output operations per second) and 1,400K, respectively.
A small drawback is that this SSD is not equipped with a DRAM cache and relies on HMB (Host Memory Buffer). While this shouldn't be a deal-breaker if you plan on using this SSD to store games, some might find the exclusion unappealing.
The 4TB version nets you a massive endurance rating of 2,400 TBW thanks to its TLC design. To give some context, say you write 50GB of data to your drive daily. In that case, you'll exhaust this 2,400 TBW limit in over 131 years. Moreover, based on our extensive testing, the 990 EVO Plus manages to keep up with a handful of other high-end DRAM-equipped SSDs across a suite of benchmarks.
The 990 EVO Plus is backed by a standard 5-year warranty from Samsung or until the TBW limit is reached - whichever comes first. It doesn't feature the bells and whistles of other 10 GB/s+ PCIe 5.0 SSDs but costs significantly less and still performs well in real-world tasks.
The $249.99 price tag won't last long, so make haste and secure yours while inventory lasts. Visit the Amazon page for more details regarding the price and shipping options. We are working hard to find the best deals for you this Cyber Monday. If you're looking for other products, check out our Cyber Monday Computer Hardware Deals Live blog for a range of products, or dive deeper into our specialized SSD and Storage Deals Live blog, Monitor Deals Live, Graphics Card Deals, or CPU Deals pages.
