The Samsung 990 EVO Plus SSD 2TB is a drive that fits in an M.2 slot on a laptop or desktop, delivering a significant performance boost over traditional drives. Your games will load much quicker, files will transfer at a much faster rate, and Windows will wake in near-instant. This type of hardware is something that you buy once and see results each time you use it.
An easy, affordable way to upgrade your computer’s storage
The SSD’s Sequential read speeds reach up to 7,250 MB/s, and sequential writes reach 6,300 MB/s, putting the 990 EVO Plus near the top of what PCIe 4.0 can deliver. Random performance sits at up to 1,000,000 read IOPS and 1,350,000 write IOPS, numbers that matter for anything that hits the drive with lots of small operations, like loading a big game, compiling code, or editing video with dozens of clips on the timeline.
One of the more fascinating aspects of the 990 EVO Plus is its flexible interface. The drive will run in a PCIe 4.0 x4 configuration on older motherboards or in a PCIe 5.0 x2 configuration if your board supports the newer standard. This gives the SSD a bit of futureproofing. The M.2 2280 form factor is an industry standard, and the 990 EVO Plus will fit virtually all desktops and most laptop configurations currently available.
Intelligent TurboWrite 2.0 technology lets the drive maintain those write speeds during large file transfers, preventing slowdowns partway through a big copy. It allocates a chunk of the drive as a fast write buffer, so moving a 50GB folder feels less like waiting for a progress bar and more like a quick blink.
Samsung Magician is a software that runs continuously while your drive is connected to Windows. It monitors the drive’s health, allows firmware updates, and even adjusts the drive’s performance, all without going into settings. This can be useful if you plan to use it as your primary storage device or for long-term data storage, since Samsung provides a 5-year warranty and an estimated life expectancy of 1200 TBW (terabytes written).
Right now, this Samsung 990 EVO Plus SSD is priced at $370 instead of its usual $500. If you are building a new computer, want to upgrade your boot drive because it is too slow, or need to add another fast storage device for a growing video game library, you can’t go wrong with this great deal.
