Samsung 2TB 9100 PRO, 990 PRO NVMe SSDs have never been cheaper

It looks like the NVMe SSD market is once again coming to life if you are out there hunting for deals. Samsung, for example, is offering its 9100 PRO and 990 PRO drives at great prices that you should absolutely look at if you want to save some major bucks. The discounts apply on 2TB models (purchase links down below).

First up, we have the 9100 PRO. It is based on PCIe Gen5 and thus promises double the speed of the 990 PRO. Samsung claims to deliver sequential read and write speeds of up to 14,700 MB/s and 13,400 MB/s, respectively, on the 2TB model.

In terms of random throughput, the claimed numbers for the 2TB SKU is 1850K IOPS for the reads and 2600K IOPS for writes. The on-board DRAM cache helps in this regard with 2GB of LPDDR4X on the 2TB.

The SSD is built on Samsung's in-house 8th Gen TLC V-NAND flash memory and has endurance ratings of 1200 TBW (terabytes written).

Gen5 SSDs are known to run quite hot and thus the included SSDs are a must. You may even upgrade to something even better if you are having trouble managing the heat. Speaking of heat, Samsung says that the drives have an operating temperature of 0 to 70 Celsius, and upon exceeding this temperature, the drive's controller will begin throttling quite heavily.

Get it at the link below:

• SAMSUNG SSD 9100 PRO without Heatsink 2TB, PCIe 5.0x4 M.2 2280 (MZ-VAP2T0CW): $239.99 (Amazon US) || $239.99 (Shipped and Sold by Newegg US)

990 PRO is, on the other hand, the fastest Gen4 drive from Samsung. There are some obvious differences like lower speeds on this compared to the 9100 PRO. Sequential reads and writes are rated at 7450 MB/s and 6900 MB/s respectively. The random throughputs for reads and writes are 1400K IOPS and 1550K IOPS respectively.

The 990 PRO is based on Samsung's 7th Gen V-NAND flash and it too is TLC. The endurance rating for this is the same as that of the 9100 PRO. Get it at the link below:

• Samsung 990 PRO SSD NVMe M.2 PCIe Gen4, M.2 2280, MZ-V9P2T0B/AM: $149.99 (Shipped and Sold Amazon US) || $149.99 (Shipped and Sold by Newegg US)

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