The Samsung 990 Evo Plus 2TB and 4TB SSDs Are On Sale Today: Great for PS5 and Gaming PCs – IGN
Samsung’s newest SSD – the Samsung 990 Evo Plus PCIe 4.0 M.2 NVMe solid state drive – is on sale today. Pick up the 1TB size for just $64.99, the 2TB size for $129.99 or, if you can swing it, the 4TB size for $249.99. It’s currently $40-$60 cheaper than the Samsung 990 Pro and most (if not all) gamers won’t notice the difference in performance.
Update: The 1TB model has dropped yet again from $69.99 to $64.99, and 2TB from $139.99 to $29.99.
Samsung 990 Evo Plus SSDs on Sale
Samsung 990 Evo Plus 1TB PCIe Gen 4×4 M.2 SSD
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The Samsung 990 Evo Plus is an excellent drive for both your gaming PC and your PlayStation 5 console. It exceeds Sony’s minimim speed recommendation for the PS5, boasting sequential speeds of up to 7,250 read and 6,300MB/s write. This is a much faster drive than the 990 Evo non-Pro but not quite as fast as the 990 Pro. The main difference between this drive and the more expensive 990 Pro is that this is a DRAM-less drive. For PS5 performance, it makes no difference. For gaming PCs, the 990 Evo Plus supports HMB (host memory buffer), which makes up for the lack of DRAM by using an inconsequential amount of RAM from your system memory. Gamers will not notice any difference between the two.
The Samsung 990 Evo Plus does not have a preinstalled heatsink. However, the 990 Evo Plus SSD is a newer single-sided SSD design that is power efficient and doesn’t generate as much heat as SSDs from before. That means you probably don’t need to use a heatsink and it should still work perfectly fine in a PS5 console without any thermal throttling. That said, you certainly could for peace of mind and I wouldn’t see any disadvantage to that aside from spending an extra $7.
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