Samsung 990 SSD Review: A Low-Power, Mainstream QLC SSD In The AI Era
Samsung 990: 1TB $269, 2TB $529
The new Samsung 990 family of solid state drives features the company's high-capacity QLC NAND flash memory for improved efficiency and optimized cost.
- Good Performance
- Single SIded
- Relatively Low-Power
- Cool Running
- Suitable For Almost Any Application
- Somewhat High Latency
- Reduced 3-Year Warranty
Although market conditions aren’t particularly favorable at this time, Samsung is launching its latest mainstream series of solid state drives today, the 990. As Samsung has historically done, the company has fleshed out its larger 990-series of SSDs with Pro, EVO, and EVO Plus models, with the new 990 dropping in somewhere in between the EVO and Pro. The Samsung 990 series is cost and efficiency optimized, and features newer NAND flash memory and tweaked and tuned firmware to optimize performance and power.
Take a look at the Samsung 990’x main features and specifications below, and then we’ll dive in a...
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