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The page shows current prices, which are not used"}},{"url":"https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-launches-990-evo-plus-ssd-with-best-in-class-performance-speeds-supported-by-pcie-4-0","kind":"press_release","accessed":"2026-10-14","fields":["announce_date","launch_price_usd","release_date"],"notes":{"announce_date":"Samsung global newsroom, Korea, September 25, 2024. Samsung Germany's release is dated 26.09.2024","launch_price_usd":"MSRP worldwide in USD: 1TB $109.99, 2TB $184.99, 4TB $344.99. Excl. sales tax","release_date":"Announced September 25, 2024. 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The 2TB uses one NAND package, and the 4TB is also single-sided","dram_cache":"Specs table lists DRAM as N/A (HMB)"}},{"url":"https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/samsung-990-evo-plus-ssd-review/2","kind":"review_site","accessed":"2026-10-14","fields":["measured_slc_cache_gb","measured_post_cache_write_mbs","measured_max_temp_c","measured_power_idle_mw","variants"],"notes":{"measured_slc_cache_gb":"2TB. Iometer sustained sequential write, 1 MiB blocks, QD32, 15 minutes. The review says the drive wrote at almost 6.1 GB/s for over 37 seconds and calls the total cache 226 GB: 216 GB of dynamic cache plus 10 GB of static cache, more or less exactly what the test found. The sequential write chart drops at about 39 seconds","measured_post_cache_write_mbs":"2TB. Review text: TLC write speeds around 1.5 GB/s after the cache is depleted, stored as 1500. The chart shows 1,400 to 1,500 MB/s right after the drop. The steady state average over 15 minutes is 1,777 MB/s and is not stored","measured_max_temp_c":"2TB, bare drive, no heatsink. Maximum recorded temperature of 65 C on the primary composite sensor, about 22 C ambient, Intel Core i9-12900K on Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Hero. The review says the drive should not need a heatsink. KitGuru logged 49 C in short benchmark runs, which is a different method","measured_power_idle_mw":"2TB, read from chart. Quarch PPM idle power with ASPM and LPM disabled, 1,086 mW","variants":"Measured values are for the 2TB model. 1TB and 4TB were not tested"}},{"url":"https://www.kitguru.net/components/ssd-drives/simon-crisp/samsung-ssd-990-evo-plus-2tb-ssd-review/","kind":"review_site","accessed":"2026-10-14","fields":["controller","nand_layers","pcb_sides","heatsink"],"notes":{"controller":"Names the in-house Samsung Piccolo controller, a four-channel DRAM-less 5 nm design with HMB","nand_layers":"Samsung's 8th generation 236-layer V-NAND TLC, a single NAND package on the 2TB","pcb_sides":"Reviewer says the 2TB is built on a single-sided M.2 2280 format","heatsink":"The drive has no heatsink as such, only a heat spreader label with a copper layer and a nickel-coated controller. Samsung sells it in one bare version"}},{"url":"https://www.kitguru.net/components/ssd-drives/simon-crisp/samsung-ssd-990-evo-plus-2tb-ssd-review/4/","kind":"review_site","accessed":"2026-10-14","fields":["measured_seq_read_mbs","measured_seq_write_mbs","measured_random_read_q1_mbs","measured_random_write_q1_mbs"],"notes":{"measured_seq_read_mbs":"2TB, CrystalDiskMark 8.0.4 default profile, SEQ1M Q8T1 read 7,296.69 MB/s, rounded to 7297 (the text says 7,296). 1 GiB test file, 5 runs, drive wiped with HDDerase v4. Test bench AMD Ryzen 5 3600X, 16GB DDR4-2400, Gigabyte B550 Aorus Master, PCIe 4.0 x4 slot","measured_seq_write_mbs":"SEQ1M Q8T1 write 5,827.03 MB/s, same test. 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