Update 2 – November 02, 2022: The Samsung 990 Pro is now available to pre-order directly from Samsung in the U.S. the prices start at $170 for the 1TB version.
Update 1 – October 28, 2022: Samsung Electronics America, recently announced that the Samsung 990 PRO PCIe 4.0 SSD Series will be going to be available for pre-order on November 1, 2022. Notably, it featured the most outstanding innovations in proprietary NAND, controller and software technology. The same 990 PRO and 990 PRO with Heatsink have capabilities that are optimized for PC and console gamers. While the makers enable it with storage along with superb performance, power efficiency and thermal control.
The 990 PRO series is intended for smooth and fast gaming
Talking about drives, then it well it is enriched capabilities for heavy gaming and productivity tasks like 3D rendering, 4K video editing, and data analysis respectively. It is primarily intended for smooth and fast gaming. As this series delivers sequential reads and write speeds of 7,450 megabytes per second (MB/s) and 6,900 MB/s respectively. Additionally, it delivers a random performance of up to 1,550K IOPS, which drastically reduces the loading time. The 990 PRO Series is enhanced and optimised for Microsoft DirectStorage API software technology. All this enables games to successfully take advantage of fast NVMe SSDs.
Inside the 990 PRO, there’s the world’s first 8nm controller for consumer SSDs. It amazingly optimises its power efficiency by up to 50% as compared to the 980 PRO. And thus increase the battery life on systems. Additionally, efficient thermal management is brought by nickel coating on the controller.
Collate to this, the heat spreader label on the back side of the SSD means users don’t need to worry about heat-related issues. Powered by Samsung’s Advanced Heat Dissipation Technology. It maintains the SSD at optimal temperature for hours of gameplay without performance degradation.
Heatsink meets the PCI-SIG D8 standards
Further, in order to provide an additional layer of thermal control, the Samsung 990 PRO with Heatsink meets the PCI-SIG D8 standards that are essential for desktop compatibility, gaming console and laptops as well. Also, it takes minutes to install, while console owners can make their storage more than triple for games and digital entertainment which overcomes the panic from storage limitations. It is also equipped with RGB lights in order to support the style of gaming.
Pre-orders at Samsung.com from November
- The pre-orders for the 990 PRO 1TB ($169.99), 990 PRO 2TB ($289.99), 990 PRO with Heatsink 1TB ($189.99) or 990 PRO with Heatsink 2TB ($309.99) begin November 1, 2022 at Samsung.com.
- The 990 PRO with Heatsink 1TB and 2TB are also available in a new character box while the contents of the box remain the same.
- The 990 PRO Series comes with an industry-leading 5-year limited warranty and will begin shipping in late November. A 4TB version of the 990 PRO Series will be available in 2023.
