Customer reviews from Samsung US
Samsung - 990 EVO SSD 1TB Internal SSD PCIe Gen 4x4 | Gen 5x2 M.2 2280, Speeds Up to 5,000MB/s
Average customer rating
4.9
(587 Reviews)
Rating breakdown 587 reviews
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Customer Reviews for Samsung - 990 EVO SSD 1TB Internal SSD PCIe Gen 4x4 | Gen 5x2 M.2 2280, Speeds Up to 5,000MB/s
Customer Rating
5
Good
on December 23, 2025
Posted by: Bill
from Hawaii
Expertise:Intermediate
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Stable as always, good price, brought with discount
I would recommend this to a friend!
Features
4
Performance
5
Design
4
Value
5
Written by a customer while visiting Samsung US
Customer Rating
5
Increasing ps5 storage
on December 25, 2025
Posted by: Trex
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Works with the play station 5 and has excellent speeds.
Written by a customer while visiting Samsung US
Customer Rating
4
2TB of Speed and Reliability That Actually Deliver
on December 28, 2025
Posted by: Geek010101
Expertise:Intermediate
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I've been using the Samsung 990 EVO for about three weeks now, and honestly, I'm pretty impressed with what Samsung pulled off here. I upgraded from an older 970 EVO, and the difference is noticeable right out of the box.Let me start with capacity. Two terabytes is a serious upgrade for me. I work with video files and game storage, so I was tired of constantly managing drive space. This drive handles my 4K raw footage without breaking a sweat, and I've still got room to breathe. The form factor is compact too—standard M.2 2280, so installation was literally five minutes.On compatibility, there's something clever Samsung did here that I didn't expect. This drive works in both PCIe 4.0 and 5.0 mode. My older motherboard is Gen 4, but it's nice knowing if I upgrade later, this drive will flex into Gen 5 mode automatically. No future-proofing anxiety. It hit 5,000 MB/s read speeds consistently in my tests, which is legitimately fast for everyday tasks.The interface feels responsive. Transfers that used to take eight minutes now take three. Loading large project files is noticeably quicker, and booting Windows is snappy. Random access performance is solid too—I don't get stutters when jumping between multiple applications.Performance-wise, I ran it through some real-world scenarios. My video export times dropped significantly, and copying large folders doesn't tank my system anymore. Samsung's in-house Piccolo controller seems to handle workloads intelligently. Temperatures stay reasonable even under sustained load, which matters if you're using this for actual work instead of just storage.Reliability is where I felt the 5-year warranty actually mean something. The 1,200 TBW endurance rating gives me confidence this drive won't crap out in two years. I'm putting this through actual use—not baby-ing it—and it's been rock solid. No crashes, no weird behavior, no slow-downs over the past few weeks. If you need 2TB of fast, reliable storage without overpaying for high-end enterprise drives, this is the move. Highly recommend it!
I would recommend this to a friend!
Features
5
Performance
5
Design
4
Value
5
Written by a customer while visiting Samsung US