After a particularly turbulent 12 months with huge worth drops and revenue slumps, some calm has slowly however certainly returned to the SSD market, and the low cost battle, which was pleasing for shoppers, has additionally ended in the intervening time. Nonetheless, there’s at the moment a notable supply for the lightning-fast 2TB variant of the favored Samsung 990 Professional.
The South Korean flagship SSD could be ordered immediately from the web retailer CoolBlue for 135 euros together with free transport, which, in response to Idealo, is at the moment the most affordable supply and is 13 % beneath the following greatest comparability worth for the 2TB model. It must be famous that that is the Samsung 990 Professional with out a heatsink, so if you wish to use the PCIe 4.0 SSD in a Sony PlayStation 5, it is best to order an acceptable heatsink individually. Appropriate merchandise from beQuiet, for instance, could be discovered on Amazon from round 11 euros.
With regards to pace, the Samsung 990 Professional leaves little to be desired, as our brief and concise hands-on overview confirmed. In line with the official information sheet, the 2TB SSD can obtain as much as 7,450 MB/s for sequential studying, and it’s nonetheless a particularly quick 6,900 MB/s for sequential writing. The sturdiness of the 990 Professional is 1,200 TBW or 1.5 million working hours, however a corresponding backup is after all nonetheless extremely really useful for potential patrons. In the end, this deal is primarily of curiosity to storage lovers who can exploit the total potential of the Samsung SSD.
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CoolBlue, picture: Mario Petzold (pocket book test)
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