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On the performance front, the 2TB 990 Pro delivered excellent random read performance, beating a host of other 2TB PCIe 4.0 x4 drives in our testing. It was also relatively efficient in the process and good for battery-powered devices like a laptop, while also reducing thermal output. Samsung lists sequential reads at 7,450 MBps and 6,900 MBps, with IOPS at 1.4M and 1.55M reads/writes, respectively. The read speeds essentially max out the PCIe 4.0 x4 interface. It also has an endurance rating of 1,200 TBW, which is average for the generation and capacity. You’ll be hard-pressed to pass that metric unless you’re transferring gigabytes upon gigabytes of data daily.
At $389.99, it isn’t the least expensive 2TB PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSD available, but it's one of the fastest of its kind for the interface (see results from our review below). If this one is too expensive and you don’t need 2TB capacity, the 1TB Samsung 990 Pro is also on sale for much less, $249.99 ($70 off). As you can imagine, these prices are vastly higher than they were a year ago, but we're seeing some reductions from the heady heights of earlier this year.
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