2TB and 4TB models get the deals treatment
Having spent a good chunk of this morning window-shoppingSSDs, Im prepared to point knowingly at theSamsung 990and mouth “That one”, thus crowning it as the best NVMe drive deal of theAmazon Spring Sale.
Especially so, if youre concerned about theswelling storage footprintof contemporary games, as the sale is focusing on the most cavernous 2TB and 4TB capacities.
The 990 Pro has popped up on RPS a few times, but if youre unfamiliar, this basically forms a triumvirate with the WD Black SN850x and the Crucial T500 as the three finest examples of game load-time cutting in the mainstream PCIe 4.0 SSD space.
NewerPCIe 5.0 drivescan just about edge them, but not to the degree that their far higher price is justified, and with some help from the sales that gap gets even wider.
All three of these deals, in fact, drop the 990 Pro to its lowest pricing since at least last years Black Friday.
UK deals:
Samsung 990 Pro 2TB
141 (was 183)
See here
Samsung 990 Pro 4TB
258 (was 272)
US deal:
$280 (was $465)
If youre on an older PC, itll be worth checking to see that your motherboard and CPU do support PCIe 4.0 storage before you dive in dropping cash on such an upgrade.
More modern rigs should be fine, though, and like I said, PCIe 5.0 drives arent enough of a step forward that you should be worried about obsolescence.
Its much smarter to use your budget on a massive 4.0 SSD today than it is to get a smaller 5.0 model, especially if its one as good as the 990 Pro.
