990 PRO

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990 PRO

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SSD Upgrade - Legion Go 2

There is absolutely no reason to use this in a handheld. It will actually reduce your battery life. The Samsung 990 Pro uses about 6.5w average, where more efficient drives use half of that. You get no speed benefit from using a drive like this. If you got it for free, great, use it. But if you paid

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bnr32jason in r/LegionGo

May 11, 2026 6:40 PM

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Loading into raid loading time. [Discussion]

I could have him put tarkov on a samsung 250 evo ssd instead of his samsung 990 pro 1tb

tacticaltool in r/EscapefromTarkov

May 6, 2026 7:23 PM

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by the time the game load i already lost my passion

I got a Samsung 990 pro 4tb and it still takes minutes. r6 might be the longest game to boot on pc

RefrigeratorBest959 in r/Rainbow6

April 18, 2026 8:14 PM

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Possibly an unpopular opinion. The new lobby is pointless and was a waste of dev time.

it’s slow on my 990 pro from samsung at full speed. and sometimes i can’t even play with friends cuz the game becomes stuck when joining a friend…

dankovreal_ in r/FORTnITE

April 22, 2026 7:18 PM

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Upgrading the SSD in my XPS 15 9520

i feel you on wanting more space. the XPS 15 9520 only has one M.2 slot, so you'd have to replace your 1TB drive. both those options work but the Samsung 990 Pro is overkill for that machine since it's PCIe 4.0 but the laptop runs at 3.0 speeds. honestly the Crucial P3 4TB is plenty fast and costs l

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LetterheadClassic306 in r/XPS

April 26, 2026 10:20 PM

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Confused about IOPS

Every NVME/PCIe SSD in a laptop needs a heatsink. SATA can usually get by without it. That 990 Pro will definitely crap out without one. It is probably under warranty, not sure how thoroughly they'll check for heat though. Lexar is going to be pretty low end for an SSD. Performance will still be mil

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SomeEngineer999 in r/techsupport

May 7, 2026 3:08 PM

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