That worldwide flash-memory price hike has let one slip through the cracks, and it’s a big one. Samsung’s flagship Gen4 NVMe SSD, the 2TB 990 PRO, is somehow taking a 39% price cut right now at Amazon. It’s one of the very best PCIe 4.0 internal drives on the market, capable of turning a middling gaming rig into a powerhouse, and this unexpected sale carves its price down by $250, to just $390.
The 990 PRO sits at the very top of Samsung’s elite consumer SSD lineup, and it’s the drive enthusiasts reach for when they want outstanding speed, performance, and stability. Sequential read speeds hit 7,450 MB/s and writes reach 6,900 MB/s, which is just about the max speed of the Gen4 interface. In real terms, that means game levels load almost instantly, large file transfers finish in seconds rather than minutes, and demanding workloads like 4K video editing or data analysis stop waiting on storage.
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The numbers and benchmarks of the 990 PRO are exceptional, but it’s the optimization of the small everyday tasks that you perform almost without thinking that you’ll truly appreciate. The 990 PRO delivers more than a 55% improvement in random performance over the previous 980 PRO, which is what you actually feel when booting the system, launching applications, and multitasking across heavy programs. For gamers, that translates to faster level loads and smoother asset streaming in open-world titles that constantly pull data off the drive.
