Perfect, just what I wanted to know as I wait for my 980 Pro 2tb to arrive from Samsung. I liked the part where you showed the 980 Pro had exceeded nearly double the TBW rating. Comforting news indeed!
I have the 980 non pro version. I was looking at getting the 990 pro, but its 230 dollars.. but you can get the 980 pro 2tb for 150. Thank you for your video you made the choice pretty clear.
I was looking for the 990 PRO but the 1TB is just 20$ less than the 2TB 980 PRO version... so yeah I might go with the 2TB just because I wont notice the difference anyway
I just built a new PC with i5 13 Gen and Z790 board. This board has 4 NMVe Gen 4 Slots. I purchased 2 980 Pro 1TB NMVe drives, but I created a Raid 0 Striped Volume. I now have nearly 2 TB (1,863 GB), but the speed is double. Single Drive on Crystal Disk Mark 6977.56 Read / 5193.03 Write. Raid 0 Drive on Crystal Disk Mark 13935.03 Read / 10784.85 Write. Unbelievably fast loading Hyper-V virtual computers. Won't need to upgrade for quite a while.
Newegg kinda screwed me.. They advertised to me the 980 (I was away from keeping up to date with tech electronics for 9 years) and wasn't aware of the 990 existence.. I bought the 980 for $130 and only after ordering I saw the 990 for $170. I fell for the advertising and returned the 980 and bought the 990 (still waiting for this, this is my first m.2 SSD, my 240 GB Sandisk Ultra II from September 2014 is still kicking with no issues at all). Then I find out that Newegg is "out of stock" for 980 (when checking the specs again) and turns out they had 3rd party "stores" selling it for $100... The messed up thing? For the 990, Newegg offered me a "store" that was $5 cheaper but charged $50 S&H.. But for the 980 they didn't show me stores offering it $100 free shipping within US.. I feel beat, cause Newegg's failed advertisement parameters practically made me lost an extra $80 (Tax Included) and I was honestly tired of "doing my own research" cause after 9 years of no upgrading / keeping up with something, I was tired from researching mobos, sockets, GPUs, etc etc
It's a bummer I really wanted the 990 Pro with all the news coming out about a dropping in life expectancy really quickly I'm just going to have to go for a 980 pro 2tb
@@A2KMedia hey something I can help but notice. Is how many writes that 980 pro has on it being out of warranty has me questioning. The more writes they get the weaker each block gets does this cause slow down? If it does cause slow down then all this measurements don’t really mean much.
Why are all saying this on these review videos as it is much much much worse than any of you people are saying someone literally lost 32% after only 2 TB written to it
@@patfre I hadn't heard a number that high before. That takes it from bad to disastrous. The question I have is does this represent a real degradation of the drive, or faulty reporting/monitoring. I the nand is just fine then a firmware update might fix it. If not then they still need a firmware change and/or to update the controller as those nand chips shouldn't be degrading like that unless they just got a bad batch of them. Either way they really need to jump on this and fix it and be transparent as possible about what happened and how they're going to make it right for customers with problem 990's.
@@kaseyboles30 a person who covered the story thought it might have been the monitoring software that was at fault but even Samsungs own software also says the same thing
@Max the ssd in my IT schools laptop have a TDW of 600 and it has written 10 TB over its life span and crystal disk info says it is 100% and realistically it should be at about 98% so it shows just how much worse than 990 Pro is with that problem
At the moment I have an older 970 2TB for work which is constantly at 70-80% capacity, and a much slower 4TB 970 Evo SATA for some projects. and that currently is also at 80%. I have a 4TB QVO on stand-by to swap in some projects that get delayed... I'm really looking forward for the 990 4TB. I tried the XPG 4TB nvme but corrupted all the data twice.
I have a Samsung OEM drive, said to be similar to the 980 Pro, but without the Samsung Trim software. It is in a new Acer Predator Helios 300. My Laptop boots in 10-12 seconds, so I am NOT complaining about my Samsung OEM (980 Pro) M2 drive.
Samsung claims both 980pro 1tb and 990pro 1tb are 600 TBW but my 980 pro thats 2 years old has less writes than my 990 pro thats less than 2 months old!!! assuming the SMART stats are correct anyway
I somehow overlooked the $10 difference in the 1tb drives and went 980 for my OS …. but the 2tb price difference I can stomach. Mainly doing gaming anyway
Hi, i have a PS5 and i want ssd but i dont now whats better 990 pro or 980 pro what do you think can be better to use for the games please thank very much, big hug form fan in Portugal!
Wait so just to confirm man I know that the 990 pro is super good. But is the 980 pro still a viable/good option. I’m running a super high end spec build eg 4090 i9 13900K. I want a 990 pro really badly but atm it’s tooo pricy. But just to confirm is the 980 bro still a good option to go for
@@FiveInline84 Lmaoo nah it’s just if the 990 wasent a crazy amount better then the 980 then it’s just such a waste. The 990 2TB Is like double the price of the 980 pro 2TB and it’s slightly slightly better. No point at all
@@shoto_9 If you're a gamer...I'm pretty sure most games don't even utilize anywhere near the raw bandwidth speeds of even a PCI-e Gen3 (970). So yeah, you won't tell a difference between a 980 and a 990 in almost anything other than transferring huge amounts of data, and even then there won't be a big difference.
990 has an issue currently where the drive health rapidly declines. You should go with the 980 pro unless ur down to wait till they fix the issue. 980 is really good though.
As always, speed between two drives in Windows missing. Why literally noone took 100gb file and copy it between two drives? My two old RAID 0 M2 SSD have around 980mb/s in benchmark, real transfer speed between them is 350-400mb/s.
@@A2KMedia I am sorry, I overlook that test. That part have just few sec and I'm skipping a lot, couse the rest of the information are unusefull for me. Thank you.
Real world for everyone except that makes a living of copying files non-stop you absolutely will not notice the difference. I literally noticed no difference years ago switching from a 970 EVO to a 980 Pro.
I’m stuck between getting the Seagate 530 4tb (it’s listed on Best Buy for $960 but currently on sale for $560) or waiting for the 990 Pro 4TB (but who knows what month that will release)
TBW: terabytes written is one of the most overlooked specs. This specs means the most especially if you want your drives to last. More importantly for video editors who write and move large files across many drives.
@@NWOResistance why the sarcasm when it wasn't directed at you.... Come on now.. If you value money especially at the prices of large tb nvmes then you'll realize that not always the fastest drive is the best drive.
@@NWOResistance Because those "few percent" of users are the majority when it comes to buying gen 4 nvme SSDs. "Most users" will just go for SATA SSDs or cheaper gen 3 NVMEs because gen 4 doesn't really benefit the average user all too much.
@@NWOResistance Your last reply was "why do you worry about a few percent of users?" And that argument was frankly bullshit. I can't really tell if you're stupid or just a troll so have a good day.
Hey I wanted to ask if I should buy the 990 pro or 980 for my new pc that will be not low end and not high end either but somewhere in between, there is a sale for these ssds where I live and theres only a 10 dollar difference in both of the ssds, therefore I wanted to know whether I should return the 980 pro that I already bought and get the 990 pro. I plan to use this pc for the next 5 - 6 years and have room for upgradability. Will there be the problem of the health deteriorating like some of the reviews were showing or is that solved?
Is the 990 overkill for the PS5? There is a $30 difference in price right now, including an aftermarket heatsink for the 990. So with the negligible price difference, im wondering if the 990 adds any benefits for a PS5 or if the 980 caps out the PS5 bottlenecks.
2TB one is what im wanting for the ps5. The 980 with heatsink is $159 and the 990 w/o heatsink is $179, plus $10 for a heat sink. There have been issues with the 990 and i would also have to buy an adapter to update the firmware, $20, but i could always return that after i do the update. Im just wondering if the ps5 can even utilize the speed increase of 990 or if the 980 is capped by the ps5 bottlenecks, and if it’s even worth all that hassle lol.
@@Eric-sq2to nice, good to know. I ended up going with the 990. They finally released the heatsink version, so I was able to save a few bucks. Also i read the ones with the heatsink all came with the upgraded firmware, so i was able to buy it without having to update it.
this video was terrible I just got the 990 pro yesterday and it runs it exact advertise speed check your motherboard every computer is different I get exactly what I'm paying for
Did it come with the latest firmware ( which fixes the drive health issue) ? Do you recommend it over WD sn 850x considering 990 pro is cheaper than sn 850x in my country. Thank you
I bought it so i could clone my old samsung nvme to skip reformatting and their software couldnt finish. I had to use an other software in trial. Pitty. Never again Samsung
hi i don't what to buy for my first M2 ssd , i already have a sata what is better? 980 pro or P5 plus for 100 euro or SN 770 for 80 980 for 80 what do you think?
Over 70volt jou can simulate the Power of a 4090 ti titan in max oc over 2.1hdmi or Printer or you can use over 4 tb 2tb for data storage 1tb is enough for 3 tb also via software you can use it to start driver printer detection and emulators or typ-C A via the RAM with 48 GB sd RAM no matter what ddr4 ddr5 new 6400x1 3200x2 bar the oc 200mhz more 6600 3200 on pc and you can fully rebuild the rtx 4090ti with software kluster and tuner at 660watt gpu 900watt pc makes almost 1000watt in reserve buy 2x and you have the exact power when you run from the ssd at 350volt per 4 lance so 700watt at 5x read is the 660watt 4x4x4x4 is that on 16lance at 900watt power supply so a subject is that people should overtake emulators and connect programs with drivers and codecs much easier sorry I mean the A7000 at 2x 1000mb
Perfekt für 16 Kerne Laptops mit 2.5 4.8turbo oder 32 bei 2 ghz2.5turbo 5.2ghz bei Stock oc CPU 8 x 12x 5.2 8core 5.6 oc gpu max im 8 core bei 14400mbs in 3x rade0 ist das a7000 bei 1tb 504gb rade 0 und 2x normal mit Software Daten Cluster 2.5tbx4 Split 504gb data software System 5x read ist das perfekt for this emulate a better rtx a7000 hyer as is
980 1tb x2 7200mb/s 1x 1860 4k codec hax x2 60volt 3720mb x2 7440mb/s over 2 tb what is better now on that pleas say me that ist normal Standard the software driver is better Code data GPS IP Adress is better fixes but how muth kost IT now as 2 tb 980 pro jou can run a tuner how make the same over USB 2.0 on typ-C on USB 3.0 Typ c Kabel on Adapter 10gb to 48gb 460x7x2=6.440mb over 320x5x2 = 6400mb over 7 2x for dobbel 2tb pippline together for data in output ssd 460 on 320mb x5 is that Produkt over 2tb output input ride read lower IT dobbel 1100mb over 1tb 3200mb x4 over to output 4x4 to simulate 4lance together faster over 5.4ghz 8000mhz RAM 8cors 1oc 7 efiziens on 1 data Pack
