Impossible to consider a new SSD without watching your videos first. The amount of info here is so great to have!

9:10 exactly what we need in a review

just wait until the Pro version goes on sale, it'll be cheaper than the evo at normal price

@JayRello1

6 ай бұрын

It's on sale now. just got the 2TB version for $169. The evo is on sale for $159

@mesicek7

6 ай бұрын

@@JayRello1 Same. Got the 990 Pro 2 tb for 139€ back in December.

@cuong3958

6 ай бұрын

@@JayRello1I've got 2tb for 120USD in my country on month ago, now it's 160 :D

@daghtus

6 ай бұрын

Got 990 Pro 1 TB for € 82 last month. Why on Earth would I choose this insanity? OK, prices have risen since then but still...

@KG_BM

6 ай бұрын

​@JayRello1 , yup during Christmas I got 2, 2tb 990pros for $120 each

Thank you so much for posting this excellent SSD review. I really enjoyed it. The videography is so good, truly top notch, and your presentation skills are excellent. Your comments about the heat dissipation performance made me smile in agreement with you.

My 970 evo plus has been so strong for me as Windows drive... Samsung are amazing

your reviews are always so good thank you !

Such a thorough review; all of the visualized test results are very much appreciated. Subscribed

@TechTesters

4 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it! :)

I just bought a 2TB Samsung 990 EVO from Amazon for about $137, to go in my laptop computer. It runs great. It replaced a 1TB Samsung 990 Pro, and their Crystal Diskmark benchmark scores are about the same. The 990 EVO tends to run a little hot with large sequential writes, so I got a flat copper heatsink that is held on with little rubber bands, so it fits inside the laptop. With the heat sink, the 990 EVO stayed at around 60 C during a large sequential write operation and in the 40-50 range during normal operations. Overall, I'm very happy with this SSD as a high end gen 4 drive.

Awesome as usual ! So much value in your reviews !

I just purchased the 990 Pro 2T for $169 on Amazon a couple of days ago

Since Dram-less drives usually focus on power consumption for low power devices such as laptops, embedded devices, could you please provide additional testing, e.g. power consumption, battery performance, etc. with these types of drives on Notebooks? Thank you!

@mingyi456

6 ай бұрын

Honestly I feel that will not be an apples-to-apples comparison, because dramless drives cause extra system ram usage which consumes power that is logged under cpu/motherboard power consumption instead of ssd power consumption.

Hi Nada. Your sweater reminds me of the song "Baby, It's Cold Outside."

Thanks for yet another excellent and thorough review. I live in NL and appreciate the quality of your work. Your 990 pro 4TB review made me finally buy it, no regret. To me, the biggest downside of 990 Evo is lack of DRAM cache. Do you think Samsung will make a similar version of this with DRAM?

5:54 and 7:18 is the most important test in my opinion! It's a no from me. The lack of dram in 2024 is unforgivable. Keep up the great content thanks

Thank you for another great review! I'm curious, what happened with Seagate Firecuda 530 in the '' Performance in Heavier Use (OS Drive, Video Editors, etc) '' ? Why it is not in the chart? Was there a problem with it?

Thanks for the nice break down, definitely a purchase consideration for next pc build when price drops.

@Skobeloff...

6 ай бұрын

why?

Been using the 1TB for a little while now. I'm not a content creator or anything like that mostly gaming. It has been a fine drive and suits my need perfectly well.

Great review, as always. Simple and precise.

Okay, well: a) how in the HELL did I miss this announcement/launch?, b) outstanding and detailed review, as always - kudos, c) I'm still grumpy that I slept on the Crucial T500, and d) I'm sorry, Samsung 990 EVO - 5,500 MBps?! When the price (at the time of this comment, 3 weeks after this video) places it solidly between the 990 Pro and SN850X? Hahaha...I just *can't*, Samsung. XD EDIT: I have been a Seasonic fan for YEARS (decades?) and love that they sponsor you guys. However. I have recently been looking deeper into BeQuiet PSUs (especially their Dark Power 13s); have you looked at them at all? (Alsoalso: awesome nails, dude! /pretty)

I got the 980 pro with the heatsink. It's great. I wonder how these stack up

So quick question? Would you know if those slim heat sinks will make sense on a ITX MB with the M.2 located on the back of the MB?

If you have air going over it you don't need a heatsink. I'm in Sydney where we are having a pretty warm summer with a lot of humidity and with a heatsink my 980pro and 970 evo's are under 50 degrees celcius. This is without any AC.

Finally! I can make scrambled eggs on an SSD!

My 990 pro runs at one third of it's advertized performance when standard mode is selected in Samsung Magician. Full performance mode warns about warranty! I think it's time for me to try some other brands.

the problem I can see is that at least here in the uk the 2TB 990 evo is almost the same price as the 990 pro. So until the price changes you get less (no 2Gb dram cache and lower performance) and the 990 evo uses system memory (which you also paid for) and requires drivers to use that memory, so linux and unix uses will be left out, unlike with the pro. Its pure marketing that its gen 5 when it can't saturate gen 4.

I want to put ssd on my Acer Nitro 5 AN515-58 laptop should I go for samsung 990 EVO or PRO? Coz in a laptop I don't think I can use heatsink version so which one is recommended for laptops?

Great Video, thank you very much 😊

Great review as always

SPacex needs the tech behind the sticker so that they can make space suit for mission to Sun

@TechTesters

6 ай бұрын

:D

These on a m.2 carrier card plugged into a by 16 slot make a lot of sense!

A new samsung ssd marketed as being a "pci-e 5.0" drive somehow performed worse than my ancient 970 EVO plus during stress tests, lol! Thats a hard pass for me.

i bought two of these just only for the fact that it won't heat up that much compared to the 990 pro... plus when i got my 2 pcs of 990 evo's i got it for 140usd each. so not bad for me. oh and im using it for my laptop specifically so im godo with it .. im also impressed by the boot time of my laptop now it's like 10 to 15 secs to boot. 😅

Awesome video. I had hope that the 990 EVO would compete with the expensive T700, but nah. PS: sustained writing is something I look at closely even though I'm only doing that a few times a year.

and the EVO plus must surely coming soon

Is the 2MB blocksize used in practice? I‘m a bit confused which tests are practical and which one theoretical (or for those who doesn‘t let Windows decide the blocksize).

Hello, great video 🙂 is it backwards compatible with 3.0?

I stick to my 512GB Silicon Power 3rd gen nvme-SSD (3400/2300MB/s) from Nov 2019. In combination with Ubuntu on OpenZFS with its 4 GiB lz4 compressed cache (L1ARC), it is like running from a RAM disk.

In the UK you might as well pay an extra £8 and get the 990 Pro 2TB with heatsink.

Also a question is if the controller chip is still lower height than the nand, sometimes its better to double heat pad over to compensate, matters less with clamp force desktop heatsinks though.

@churblefurbles

6 ай бұрын

but yes their software is good, I'll stick with my 980 pro/970 evo plus for now.

I often use Samsung drives because of their easy to use "1 touch" drive cloning software.

Muchas gracias ❤❤❤

Right now (3/17/2024) Amazon is selling this drive for $89.98. Just ordered mine yesterday.

Or one more thing am thinking about to buy a asus mobo for editing so plz guide whitch is best between them (strix z790-e wifi ll / z790 maximus white varient )? Plz guide am waiting for ur reply 🙏

best hmb ssd = map1602A and 232 layer nand (lexar nm790, hiksemi future, etc) 990 evo hmb with high power consumption

Hola excelente rreview

No drm, no buying

You thoroughly remind me of a cool high school science, or math teacher.

For price/performance I miss the Lexar NM790....

Mam can u help me about lg 34wq75c-b resolution..... Its shows in shop 1440 resolution.. But mam in my pc... Its showing 2550×1440 resolution.. Why like that mam? Is that due to gpu? i have nvdia geforce 210 gpu...

i want to see this drive on raid 0

I just bought the 2TB 990 EVO at Best Buy for $130 US.

Can you do a review on the lexar nm710 and 790?

@TechTesters

4 ай бұрын

Working on that atm as well!

I have a question! My mobo is with pcie 3x4 slot for nvme if I buy fast nvme maybe Samsung 990 Evo or something similar will it benefit from faster random read and write on nvme pcie 4x4?

@Skobeloff...

6 ай бұрын

990 evo is not fast.

Wow, pretty underwhelming performance to be honest! Not near the rep the 970 EVO had when that one debuted. Great review!

Oh, my...90° temps are over the top. Would it kill them to put a heatsink? I think I'll take a closer look at my SSD temps from now on. 90°+ is not healthy. Besides "within the specs" is just another way to say : "we designed it this way so you can buy a new one every 2 years".

Thanks for another great review. cheers.

I should buy 990 evo or 980 pro

So damn cute

Isn't it a bit late for a Christmas jumper?

Lolz I though ya forgot...thnx for the review!!!

I know what I did last summer, buying 2tb Kingston kc3000 + Renegade Fury, wd 850 and Samsung 970/980 all under €100,-. Ja, wij Nederlanders zijn zuinig.

pragtige trui 😍😍

8:40 Exactly, consumers need to pay more attention to the way companies state things, they are all too often deceptive.

Is it worth getting gen5?

remember everyone to update your m.2 drives 😇

I can't find any reason why I would put this drive in my PCIe Gen5 slot.

@Wlad1

6 ай бұрын

Perhaps in future we will see MoBos with PCIe5.0-Chipsets and multiple short 5.0x1-Slots -> than you can place such an SSD with adapter in it and have Gen3-Speeds (3700 max) using only ONE PCIe lane.

@FuelX

6 ай бұрын

@@Wlad1 This SSD requires 5.0x2. I don't know if it would work with a single lane. But yes, I guess an adapter could allow me to use 2 of these instead of a single 4 lanes gen 5. Maybe it could be useful on a storage server.

@Wlad1

6 ай бұрын

@@FuelX No, it doesn't "require" 5.0x2, and Yes, it will work with a single lane and loose perhaps 10-20% of its speeds, so instead of 4800/3600 it will have about 3700/3500. In other metrics (random speeds/real life performance) it would loose even less - perhaps 5-10%.

Yea but why buy it over the WD BLACK SN850X they cost less and perform better. /edit: Oh you even covered it towards the end

970 Evo was replaced by the 980 pro/ 990 pro. 970 Pro was never replaced... RIP MLC SSD's 😢If Anything, the 870 QVO has been upgraded to the 990 EVO. QLC -> TLC

You're definitely the person to go to for SSDs reviews. Concise tests, price comparisons and fact checking the marketing bs is what we need.

"We made our drive so slow that a sticker works just fine."

@TechTesters

6 ай бұрын

😅

jammer niet in 4Tb :( to bad not in 4Tb :(

The word "budget" doesn't exist in the thesaurus of Samsung.

Are you ducth? Your accent belongs to the netherlands 🤣🤣

@junior-OG

6 ай бұрын

yes she is

I’d rather use a WD black which is probably cheaper anyway

👍👍❤️❤️❤️

@TechTesters

6 ай бұрын

🤩

This is why it pays to check stats and reviews, do not assume a brand is always going to be good... or bad.

😊

When i see the word EVO i think of Mitsubishi 😎

this makes no sense how it more expensive than 990 pro in netherlands lol

so your saying the evo beats the pro in gaming wtf i wasted 320 € on 4tb 990pro; nah i am happy with it :D

😁😁😁👍👍👍

"all capacities". But its only 2, LoL X-P (nice joke guys).

Kingston FURY Renegade is better.

When these companies try to mislead customers they should be fined, heavily.

"...right now, you should Not buy these drives.."👍🤓

Sounds like less for more money.

Never again samsung

Gotta remember SSDs are computer themselves. All brands should include optional heatsink in the packaging.

@Skobeloff...

6 ай бұрын

The majority of motherboards have heatsinks included these days, there is no reason for manufacturers to increase their costs, or be wasteful by including heatsinks.

@prathmeshpatil6425

6 ай бұрын

@@Skobeloff... Ok

Who is buying this ssd? Lmao look at all the prices online this drive is as much as the top speed gen 4 drives. Who the hell would by this

@TechTesters

5 ай бұрын

Its Samsung. Their SSDs rarely make sense at launch, but almost always end up making sense at some point.

Not even good enough for a PS5, worthless

Useless SSD.

Samsung is a terrible company that doesn’t stand behind its products…..specifically the 2tb 980 Pro which I bought and it promptly went in to “read only mode” thereby rendering it useless. Samsung knew these drives were bad with the early firmware, but still chose not to warranty my drive. I will never buy another Samsung product. FU Samsung. Every time I see a Samsung review I will post this comment. Don’t by Samsung…….buy WD Black drives. They bury Samsung drives.

Speeds nowadays are incredibly fast and still...faster isn't fast enough? Don't ask!