Samsung 990 PRO 1 TB M.2 PCI Express 4.0 NVMe V-NAND MLC

“When the Samsung 990 Pro was announced, many PC enthusiasts were disappointed to see that Samsung's latest flagship SSD was sticking with the last-gen PCIe 4.0 standard rather than leading the way into the PCIe 5.0 future we've been promised.”

“Can the new Samsung 990 Pro return the performance crown to the long-time king of the best SSDs for gaming ? That's the immediate task for the Samsung 990 PRO, the tech giant's latest high-performance M.2 drive.”

Fazit: The successor to Samsung's first Gen4 drive, the very popular SSD 980 Pro has now arrived. The 990 Pro brings with it a new controller and Samsung's 7th generation 176-layer 3-bit MLC V-NAND. Details about the new Pascal controller are very thin on the gro...

“The Samsung 990 Pro is the much-anticipated successor to the popular 980 Pro. It is poised to be the very fastest drive we've tested, outdoing even the SK hynix Platinum P41 and the Western Digital (WD) SN850X.”

Fazit: PCIe 4.0 has been with us for a while now, but that means Samsung has had both time and experience on their side to make this one of the fastest and most efficient PCIe Gen 4.0 M.2 SSDs we've ever seen, it's a clear improvement in all respects over the al...