It’s a tough time to buy storage at the moment, and we’ll be the first to admit that this Samsung 990 SSD’s price of £330 on Amazon UK wouldn’t have been listed as a deal this time last year. People still need to buy storage in these times, though, and if that’s you, this isn’t a bad price in today’s market for a 2TB drive.
Samsung 990
£411.99 / £330.12
“Speed up load times, transfer without the long wait, and upgrade your setup confidently with reliable storage performance.” – Samsung
Samsung launched the 990 in July this year for £412 on Samsung’s store, and price trackers show that £330.12 is indeed its lowest ever price, after peaking at around £430 for a good period of August and September on Amazon.
That price buys you a PCIe 4.0 SSD, with a peak read speed of 7,250MB/s. That’s a fair way off the supersonic pace of the latest PCIe 5.0 drives, but it’s still plenty fast enough for most people’s needs. Meanwhile, sequential write speeds top out at 6,450MB/s.
This is a little way off the pace of the very fastest PCIe 4.0 drives, such as the Samsung 990 Pro, but it’s still a speedy SSD. Some PCIe 4.0 drives don’t go much beyond 5,000MB/s, after all. Samsung also says it’s massively reduced power draw, improving performance per watt by 38% compared to the 990 Pro, making this a solid upgrade for laptops.
Amazon is listing this is a limited-time deal until November 8, or while promotional stock lasts, so you’ll need to get in quick if you want to pick it up – at the time of writing, 7% of discounted stock has already gone.
