Went on sale for $130 for a 2tb on Amazon. Been waiting on a drive to fill with games seems like the perfect t time! Been watching a bunch of your comparisons the last couple months while building my new rig, very helpful content!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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).
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 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?
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.
All Gen4 ssds are backwards compatible. In theory anyway, some motherboards might not accept some drives, but that’s really rare and impossible to know sometimes unless someone tested it.
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...
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 🙏
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".
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
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.
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!
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
@@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.
@@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%.
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?
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.
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
Went on sale for $130 for a 2tb on Amazon. Been waiting on a drive to fill with games seems like the perfect t time!
Been watching a bunch of your comparisons the last couple months while building my new rig, very helpful content!
just wait until the Pro version goes on sale, it'll be cheaper than the evo at normal price
It's on sale now. just got the 2TB version for $169. The evo is on sale for $159
@@JayRello1 Same. Got the 990 Pro 2 tb for 139€ back in December.
@@JayRello1I've got 2tb for 120USD in my country on month ago, now it's 160 :D
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...
@JayRello1 , yup during Christmas I got 2, 2tb 990pros for $120 each
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.
sir why did you replace the 990 pro tho ?
@@alierdemyuksel6516 I wanted 2TB instead of 1 TB. I moved the 990 Pro over to another computer.
Such a thorough review; all of the visualized test results are very much appreciated. Subscribed
Glad you liked it! :)
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
Awesome as usual ! So much value in your reviews !
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.
Hi Nada. Your sweater reminds me of the song "Baby, It's Cold Outside."
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.
Thanks for the nice break down, definitely a purchase consideration for next pc build when price drops.
why?
Just found the 2TB for 105€ on sale in Austria!
Finally! I can make scrambled eggs on an SSD!
and the EVO plus must surely coming soon
I got the 980 pro with the heatsink. It's great. I wonder how these stack up
These on a m.2 carrier card plugged into a by 16 slot make a lot of sense!
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.
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.
Great Video, thank you very much 😊
You thoroughly remind me of a cool high school science, or math teacher.
Right now (3/17/2024) Amazon is selling this drive for $89.98. Just ordered mine yesterday.
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.
Hello, great video 🙂 is it backwards compatible with 3.0?
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).
I just bought the 2TB 990 EVO at Best Buy for $130 US.
8:40 Exactly, consumers need to pay more attention to the way companies state things, they are all too often deceptive.
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 bought a 1TB for €49, they are cheap now!
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?
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.
but yes their software is good, I'll stick with my 980 pro/970 evo plus for now.
Is this drive backwards compatible to gen 3? I' m considering putting one in my Lenovo P52. Maybe I should go for a 980 pro instead?
All Gen4 ssds are backwards compatible. In theory anyway, some motherboards might not accept some drives, but that’s really rare and impossible to know sometimes unless someone tested it.
Thanks for another great review. cheers.
Muchas gracias ❤❤❤
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...
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 🙏
No drm, no buying
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".
Can you do a review on the lexar nm710 and 790?
Working on that atm as well!
For price/performance I miss the Lexar NM790....
"We made our drive so slow that a sticker works just fine."
😅
i want to see this drive on raid 0
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
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
This is why it pays to check stats and reviews, do not assume a brand is always going to be good... or bad.
jammer niet in 4Tb :(
to bad not in 4Tb :(
When i see the word EVO i think of Mitsubishi 😎
Are you ducth? Your accent belongs to the netherlands 🤣🤣
yes she is
this makes no sense how it more expensive than 990 pro in netherlands lol
I’d rather use a WD black which is probably cheaper anyway
Basically it's mid. I'm getting it because I'm in Australia, and it's the only thing I can afford.
"all capacities". But its only 2, LoL X-P (nice joke guys).
so your saying the evo beats the pro in gaming wtf i wasted 320 € on 4tb 990pro; nah i am happy with it :D
😁😁😁👍👍👍
When these companies try to mislead customers they should be fined, heavily.
Sounds like less for more money.
"...right now, you should Not buy these drives.."👍🤓
Gotta remember SSDs are computer themselves. All brands should include optional heatsink in the packaging.
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.
@@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
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
My 970 evo plus has been so strong for me as Windows drive... Samsung are amazing
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!
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.
I just purchased the 990 Pro 2T for $169 on Amazon a couple of days ago
Just ordered a 2TB version for my 3th slot, thanks for the great review and information as always.
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.
I often use Samsung drives because of their easy to use "1 touch" drive cloning software.
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?
your reviews are always so good thank you !
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. 😅
So damn cute
remember everyone to update your m.2 drives 😇
Hola excelente rreview
SPacex needs the tech behind the sticker so that they can make space suit for mission to Sun
:D
The word "budget" doesn't exist in the thesaurus of Samsung.
Wow, pretty underwhelming performance to be honest! Not near the rep the 970 EVO had when that one debuted. Great review!
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?
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.
best hmb ssd = map1602A and 232 layer nand (lexar nm790, hiksemi future, etc)
990 evo hmb with high power consumption
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.
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.
Lolz I though ya forgot...thnx for the review!!!
Kingston FURY Renegade is better.
Isn't it a bit late for a Christmas jumper?
Never again samsung
I should buy 990 evo or 980 pro
Is it worth getting gen5?
Useless SSD.
😊
Great review, as always. Simple and precise.
Great review as always
pragtige trui 😍😍
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?
990 evo is not fast.
👍👍❤️❤️❤️
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I can't find any reason why I would put this drive in my PCIe Gen5 slot.
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.
@@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.
@@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%.
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?
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.
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.
Speeds nowadays are incredibly fast and still...faster isn't fast enough? Don't ask!