It seems when it comes to storage, especially solid state drive storage we are always looking at theoretical maximums. And while those are important, real-world performance is what the end-user is going to experience most of the time. That is what Samsung had in mind when they were designing their 990 solid state drive. The Samsung 990 is a PCI-Express 4.0 NVMe solid state drive with sequential read speeds up to 7,250 MB/s and write speeds up to 6,450 MB/s. On top of that you have a three‑year warranty and an 800TB TBW rating for the 2TB version. Samsung tells us that this drive is the perfect balance of speed, power efficiency, and value. Let’s take a look and see if that is the case!

Special thanks to Samsung for sending us over the 990 Gen4 Solid State Drive to review.

The Samsung 990 comes in a pretty standard retail box. On the front we have a picture of the drive itself and the read speed is listed at 7,000 MB/s for the 1TB model. As a reminder this drive will only come in 1TB and 2TB versions. Flipping over to the back it is pretty standard with a link to get more information at Samsung’s website.

Opening the box up, inside you’ll find the drive itself and a installation guide / warranty statement booklet.

• Gen4
• NVMe
• PCIe 4.0
• Review
• Samsung
• Samsung 990
• Solid State Drive
• SSD
• Storage