The Samsung 990 EVO Plus SSD 4TB is an M.2 2280 NVMe drive with sequential reads up to 7,250 MB/s and writes up to 6,300 MB/s. Four terabytes holds roughly 16 current games at 250GB apiece, with room left for the operating system. It works in a PCIe 4.0 x4 connection or a PCIe 5.0 x2 connection, so it drops into older and newer motherboards alike. Samsung Magician software takes care of firmware and drive health once it’s in.
Head over to Amazon to get the Samsung 990 EVO Plus SSD 4TB for just $595, down from its usual price of $1,050. That’s a discount of $455 and 43% off.
A hard drive that can hold all your important files and documents
An NVMe drive plugs straight into an M.2 slot and skips the SATA cable entirely. Most SSDs are wired for one PCIe generation, and that’s it. The 990 EVO Plus takes PCIe 4.0 x4 on an older board or PCIe 5.0 x2 on a newer one, and the speeds are the same either way. Build on a Gen 4 board now, swap the motherboard in two years, and the drive moves over without becoming the slow part.
A PC can read from a 990 EVO Plus at up to 7,250 MB/s and write to it at up to 6,300 MB/s. A 50GB game file would take around seven seconds to copy. Intelligent TurboWrite 2.0 sets aside part of the drive as fast write cache, and the 4TB model gets a larger allocation than the 1TB and 2TB versions.
There is also no DRAM cache on this drive. Instead, it uses HMB, which borrows a slice of your system’s RAM to house the mapping tables that are typically held in a separate cache chip. That lowers the cost and the power requirements, and this generation has a 73% improvement in energy efficiency over the last one.
Samsung Magician handles everything after the drive is in the slot. Firmware updates. Drive health monitoring. Encryption settings. Cloning tools for moving an existing Windows install over without reinstalling anything. The physical installation is one slot and one screw, and Windows sees the drive on the next boot.
At $595, down from $1,050, this Samsung 990 EVO Plus puts 4TB of space into a single M.2 slot instead of using two slots with 2TB in each. If you’re out of room on a gaming PC, editing video off an external drive you’d rather have inside the case, or building a machine you won’t want to open again for years, the capacity is your primary incentive to consider it.