<ul><li>The Samsung 990 Pro is the best SSD you can buy right now.</li><li>Although fast, the 2TB model with a heatsink is impractical for most users.</li><li>The SSD is built for other applications, such as the PS5 Pro.</li><li>The drive is insanely fast, particularly in large file transfers, and justifies its relatively high price.</li><li>Samsung is using its own in-house NAND and controller, which makes it less prone to hardware swaps after launch.</li><li>The Samsung Magician software offers a lot of options to tweak the performance of the drive.</li><li>In gaming, the regular 990 Pro and SN5000 perform similarly, making the extra cost of the heatsink hard to justify.</li><li>The best use case for the 990 Pro is large file transfers, where it shines with its sustained speed advantage.</li><li>The 990 Pro is worth spending up for if you need fast transfer speed.</li><li>The best use case for a drive this fast isn’t gaming, as most PCIe 4.0 SSDs are plenty fast for gaming, with only minor differences in loading speed.</li></ul>

Samsung 990 Pro 2TB review: stupid fast

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