The PS5-Compatible Samsung 990 Pro 4TB SSD Drops to the Lowest Price of the Year

The 990 Pro is Samsung’s fastest PCIe 4 SSD, boasting sequential speeds of 7,450MB/s read and 6,900MB/s write and random speeds of 1400K/1550K IOPS. There are faster PCIe 5 drives out there now (like Samsung’s own 9100 Pro) but they are a lot more expensive and complete overkill for gamers. All components are manufactured in-house, including the Samsung Pascal controller and 7th gen TLC NAND flash chips. The Samsung 990 Pro has a substantial 4GB of DRAM cache. Most SSDs nowadays don’t have any DRAM cache and instead rely on system memory as a buffer. A DRAM cache offers better write performance. Although gamers shouldn’t notice any performance difference either way, it’s still the preferred type of SSD to use as a boot drive for your PC.

Is the Samsung 990 Pro Compatible with the PS5?

The Samsung 990 Pro is an excellent SSD for your PS5. From a purely performance perspective, it’s overkill; the stock SSD in your PS5 will be the limiting factor. Your new PCIe Gen4 x4 M.2 solid state drive only needs to have speeds of up to 5,500MB/s for optimal performance and the 990 Pro is much faster than that. However, at the current price point, this SSD is also less expensive than many slower options, so you might as well get it. If you go with the model without the pre-attached heatsink, you can install your own heatsink for only $7.

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