Deal | Samsung 990 Pro SSDs discounted by up to 38%, 1TB and 2TB variants hit lowest prices ever on Amazon

The South Korean tech giant Samsung has made some rather negative headlines over the past few weeks due to the firmware troubles that affected a bunch of its most popular SSDs. These issues have since been resolved with an according software update, which means that tech-savvy buyers might want to pick up a high-end SSD like the Samsung 990 Pro after all.

Fittingly, the Samsung 990 Pro has now gone on sale at various reputable retailers in the United States. For example, Amazon is now selling the 1TB model variant of this extremely fast PCIe 4.0 SSD for US$119, which constitutes a considerable discount of US$50 or 29 percent in comparison to the regular list price. The more spacious Samsung 990 Pro SSD with 2TB of storage capacity has received an even steeper discount of 38 percent, which brings its price down to a fairly reasonable US$179. Both prices are the lowest ever according to a well-known price tracker.

In terms of performance, these state-of-the-art NVMe SSDs can hit sequential read and write speeds of 7,450 MB/s and 6,900 MB/s, respectively. That means that the Samsung 990 Pro is one of the fastest consumer-focused M.2 drives that is currently on the market, and it is perfectly suited for high-end desktop PCs or laptops with an according PCIe 4.0-capable M.2 slot. Aside from checking out our hands-on review of this solid-state drive, prospective buyers should use Samsung's Magician Software to make sure that their brand-new SSD is running on the latest firmware version that has fixed the unfortunate glitch that has caused extensive wear and premature failures in some cases.

Pick up the Samsung 990 Pro on sale at Amazon or Best Buy

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