The popular and well-rated Samsung 990 Evo Plus PCIe 4.0 M.2 NVMe solid state drive dropped in price this week. Amazon is currently offering the 2TB model for just $129.99 with free shipping. Alternatively, the 4TB model is down to $252.01 with free shipping. This is an excellent, high-speed SSD for both your PlayStation 5 console (we recommend you add a heatsink) and as a boot drive for your gaming PC. These prices are $40 to $50 less than the Samsung 990 Pro and most (if not all) gamers won’t notice the difference in performance.
Samsung 990 Evo Plus SSDs on Sale
The Samsung 990 Evo Plus is an excellent drive for both your gaming PC and your PlayStation 5 console. It exceeds Sony’s minimim speed recommendation for the PS5, boasting sequential speeds of up to 7,250 read and 6,300MB/s write. This is a much faster drive than the 990 Evo non-Pro but not quite as fast as the 990 Pro. The main difference between this drive and the more expensive 990 Pro is that this is a DRAM-less drive. For PS5 performance, it makes no difference. For gaming PCs, the 990 Evo Plus supports HMB (host memory buffer), which makes up for the lack of DRAM by using an inconsequential amount of RAM from your system memory. Gamers will not notice any difference between the two.
The Samsung 990 Evo Plus does not have a preinstalled heatsink. However, the 990 Evo Plus SSD is a newer single-sided SSD design that is power efficient and doesn’t generate as much heat as SSDs from before. That means you probably don’t need to use a heatsink and it should still work perfectly fine in a PS5 console without any thermal throttling. That said, a PS5-compatible heatsink costs less than $10 so you might as well get one for peace of mind.
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