990 PRO 2TB
Blazing Fast NVMe drive!
01/30/2023 10:31
Finally got my hands on the Samsung 990 Pro PCIe 4.0 NVMe and I am super impressed! I have always been a huge fan of Samsung SSDs and use them almost exclusively in all my computers/laptops. So the first order of business was popping it in my external enclosure and getting an idea of the speed and testing it out, I loved what I saw so much I immediately cloned my main SSD in my new PCIe 4.0 capable laptop and swapped those drives out! As with any M.2 drive the install was super easy and is usually just popping it into the slot and screwing it down. As for setup, I used a cloner to clone the OS and main drive to the 990 Pro. The laptop was already fast before the Samsung 990 Pro but it's smoking fast now, probably the fastest laptop I have had to date!
The Samsung 990 Pro specs out as follows from the manufacturer:
Up to 1400K/1550K IOPS
Sequential read/write speeds up to 7450/6900 MB/s (near the max performance of PCIe 4.0)
So what did I see so far? Well boot time is superb at ~10 seconds from power on to fingerprint and maybe 2 seconds from fingerprint to usable desktop!
CrystalDiskMark testing comes in as follows:
Sequential read/write speeds - 6963/4175 MB/s
Random read/write speeds - 3260/2304 MB/s
796K/562K IOPS
This is definitely a fast SSD offering from Samsung and I highly suggest getting out there and grabbing one for laptop/desktop/or even external use. For me I am using this as my primary drive in the laptop going forward as that's where the video editing happens!
BlackOmega
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