Samsung SSD M.2 NVMe PCIe Gen4 2TB 990 EVO PLUS

The Samsung 990 EVO Plus 2TB PCIe Gen4 x4 / Gen5 x2 NVMe M.2 SSD is an upgraded, high-performance version of the standard 990 EVO. It features a new 5nm controller and 8th-generation V-NAND, delivering sequential read speeds up to 7,250 MB/s and write speeds up to 6,300 MB/s.

• Speed Improvements: According to Samsung, the 990 EVO Plus is up to 45% faster than the previous 990 EVO.
• Power Efficiency: Features a 73% improvement in MB/s per watt compared to the original 990 EVO, making it highly suitable for laptops to preserve battery life.
• Thermals: Uses a nickel-coated controller and a heat spreader label for effective heat dissipation without needing a bulky physical heatsink.
• Random Speeds: Reaches up to 1,000,000 IOPS for random reads and 1,350,000 IOPS for random writes.

Specifications

• Capacity: 2TB
• Interface: Unique hybrid support for PCIe 4.0 x4 and PCIe 5.0 x2
• NAND Type: Samsung 236-layer (V8) TLC V-NAND
• Controller: Samsung "Piccolo" 5nm in-house controller
• DRAM Cache: DRAM-less design; uses Host Memory Buffer (HMB) technology
• Endurance: 1,200 TBW (Total Bytes Written)