Samsung
990 PRO
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$249.99
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PCIe 5.0 SSDs only benefit two workloads, and gaming isn't one of them
I’m using a RAID 0 setup dedicated solely to my Steam/Epic game library. It read/writes at 13GB/sec. Two 1TB Samsung Pro 990 SSDs. It’s absolutely complete overkill; I just launched Stalker 2 and loaded my latest quicksave to test it and my max read rate looking at one drive was 249.455MB/sec. Both
...c0rtec in r/TechHardware
May 14, 2026 7:43 AM
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I want to resurrect my near-mint X280. It needs a new battery, CMOS battery and SSD (90% health). What’s the fastest SSD I can put in? 512GB is more than enough, but I’d prefer it to be as fast as possible.
You do not notice SSD speed differences in daily use. The Samsung 990Pro is the benchmark in PCIe4.0 SSDs - much faster on paper and in benchmarks than the OEM PM 981. I have retrofitted quite a few of those in xx80-generation Thinkpads and the faster speeds compared to the old Samsung PM981 these s
...bhomburg in r/thinkpad
May 3, 2026 5:03 PM
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Threadripper 2970 / 4070ti / 64gb X399 bench (slow storage read write bus)
Ahhhhh ok this is more what I was looking for. I had to google the board and threadripper but can you confirm its pic e 3.0? If that is the platform your nvmes are being bottlenecked by the mobo. So if you had a 990 pro from Samsung it will only read and write at 3500mb/s even though it’s labeled fo
...Bondsoldcap in r/overclocking
May 3, 2026 10:40 PM
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Best pc for $2k-$2.5k
For a motherboard, I would go with a b850m from gigabyte as it supports am5 and all the later things. For psu, just find a good one from cybernetics though I would recommend at the very least 750W gold 80+. Ram get 32gb 6000mhz ddr5 preferably with low latency though currently that’s pretty expensiv
...Technical_Worker_711 in r/PcBuildHelp
April 20, 2026 7:45 PM
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Why is the Read/Write speed so slow?
Hey there, I just wanted to thank you because this comment helped me so much. I have Samsung 990 PRO 2TB SSD, which started working very poorly about 2 weeks ago, and I couldn't pinpoint the issue. The write speeds were terrible (about 300 MB/s max) and average response time was in hundreds of ms, w
...Sustinaseu in r/ZephyrusM16
May 13, 2026 8:36 PM
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STEAM RELEASE IS LIVE!!!!!!! SEE YOU ALL IN JAPAN!!!!!!!!!! WOOHOOO!!
i have a 1tb samsung 990 pro with 600gb of free space and it unpacked at a speed of 100kilobyted per second for 5 minutes while nothing was running in the background. then i gave up and redownloaded the whole game
AchernarVega in r/ForzaHorizon
May 19, 2026 4:45 AM
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2lakhs rupees is my budget, need help build the write pc which does wonders in this budget.
Ask the seller is that zotac 4080 super is registered or not. If yes the zotac cards got 5 years of warranty(only manufacturer in our country gives 5 yrs warranty). So you will get warranty till atleast 2028-29. So it is a definite yes. If not registered only 3 yrs of warranty. And you don't need to
...Fragrant-Revenue2623 in r/IndianPCGamers
May 9, 2026 4:02 PM
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Does anyone know why APFS encryption degrades performance on external drives so dramatically?
For anyone else stumbling upon this thread from doing Google-searches: I recently bought 4TB Samsung 990 Pro NVMe, that I put in some Ugreen 20Gbps USB3.2 NVMe enclosure. Connected to a MacBook Pro M4 Max 16". System Information states that it connects with 10Gbps (3.1 Gen2), which makes sense since
...jockek in r/MacOS
May 11, 2026 2:15 PM
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Gaming PC +/- capacity for video editing & coding. £1500-£1750 budget.
For storage i highly(and i mean highly) recommend a Samsung 990 pro or WD SN850x any capacity, those have built in ram for faster load times and over 7000mBps transfer speeds
YELLOW-n1ga in r/buildmeapc
May 11, 2026 8:07 AM
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I want to resurrect my near-mint X280. It needs a new battery, CMOS battery and SSD (90% health). What’s the fastest SSD I can put in? 512GB is more than enough, but I’d prefer it to be as fast as possible.
Yes. but PCI-e 4 is fully backwards compatible. If anything, fast PCI-e 4.0 SSDs like the aforementioned Samsung 990Pro saturate the bus in every scenario. PCI-e 3.0 x4 has a maximum realistic throughput of somewhere between 3500-3700 Gb/s. which is easily surpassed by modern SSDs. Samsung 990 Pro r
...bhomburg in r/thinkpad
May 3, 2026 7:14 PM
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