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[Pre Order] Samsung 990 PRO PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD: 2TB $307.30, 1TB $185.50 Delivered @ Samsung Education/EPP

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The new Samsung 990 Pro are currently 30% off RRP for pre-orders at the Samsung Education Store.

  • Samsung NVMe SSD powered by newly designed in-house controller
  • Up to 7,450 / 6900 MB/s sequential read/write speed
  • Power efficient SSD, reliable thermal control

PRE-ORDER: Ships 21/11/2022

These will work in the PS5, but I would highly recommend getting a heatsink

Note: The Samsung Education Store doesn't come with the Bonus Portable SSD T7.

Capacity Public Store Education Store Price Difference
1TB $265 $185.50 $79.50
2TB $439 $307.30 $131.70

If you're planning on getting the 1TB and need a 500GB portable SSD, the Public Samsung Store may be a better option (depending on how much you value the Samsung T7 500GB Portable SSD).

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  • billy77 on 07/11/2022 - 22:15
    -2

    Or pay $265 and get a 500GB T7 portable SSD at the regular Samsung store:
    https://www.samsung.com/au/memory-storage/nvme-ssd/990-pro-1…

    Edit: Woops, there already is a post for this.

    • Heaps for Cheaps on 07/11/2022 - 22:19

      nice

    • RtN on 07/11/2022 - 22:25
      +2

      $265 is 1TB…

      • UsernameChecksIn on 08/11/2022 - 05:41
        +1

        OzBargainers see our price difference vs bundle value!

        2TB price difference $131.70 discount vs $89 for 500GB T7

        Newsletter codes?

        • snoopydoop on 10/11/2022 - 14:20

          Can you use newsletter code on education store?

          • donman92 on 11/11/2022 - 01:20
            +1

            @snoopydoop: Just used it and added a 256GB Type C flash drive to meet the $350 order min requirement. Ended up being $265.46 for 990pro 2TB and $51.80 for the flash drive.

    • RichardL on 07/11/2022 - 22:28

      Added comparison to the description.

  • icecream on 07/11/2022 - 22:26
    +1

    Now I need to be "back to school".

  • lethalmoney on 07/11/2022 - 22:41
    +6

    think i'll pay a smidge more elsewhere. Samsung portal has horrific reviews on ozb with shipping / customer service.

    • UsernameChecksIn on 08/11/2022 - 05:17
      +1

      Amazon AU to start pre-order price-drop sales for SSDs?
      😁

    • plmko on 08/11/2022 - 10:26

      Yes it might be worse than Telstra in my books.

  • captaincabinets on 07/11/2022 - 22:42
    +19

    I'll just leave this here

    https://www.productreview.com.au/listings/samsung-online-sto…

    • LuslecGrace on 07/11/2022 - 22:45
      +4

      i like what u dropped cap'n

    • McFly on 07/11/2022 - 22:58
      +2

      Wow. Just… wow.

    • dosada on 07/11/2022 - 22:59
      +2

      AS long as sheep keep leaving their money there Samsung won't care about reviews.

    • agentsmith1999 on 07/11/2022 - 23:01
      +7

      That's shocking. I have purchased 3 times from the online store and haven't had any issues…

      • captaincabinets on 08/11/2022 - 07:19
        +2

        I purchased 1 time and had a miserable experience

        • LeBsRuS on 08/11/2022 - 09:57

          holi sh!t thats some bad reviews cap, never seen that before

    • Ryxxi on 08/11/2022 - 10:24
      +1

      They use startrack for smaller items but if you ever need warranty, forget it.. am not sure how accc hasnt fibed them masively yet

  • OnePoku on 07/11/2022 - 22:44

    Should I get this or any other more budget friendly 2tb ssd.

    Building a new PC for around 2.5k for mainly gaming and software development. Will I see much use for high end ssds?

    • Gamer Dad Reviews on 07/11/2022 - 22:46
      +7

      It’s blazing fast by all reviews - S tier - the best.
      Saving $50 bucks in a 2.5K build for a significantly worse ssd doesn’t seem to be the deal to me but ymmv

      • eecan on 07/11/2022 - 22:56
        +14

        A "significantly worse" SSD has almost no real world difference lol. There is barely even a difference between SATA and NVMe for current PC games (though this could change in the future once they actually optimise for NVMe but by then bigger, faster and cheaper NVMe drives will be out.

        If you aren't sure you need a faster SSD or not then chances are you do not need one as they'll only really shine for very specific use cases.

        Comparison (HDD/SATA SSD/NVMe SSD) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3AMz-xZ2VM

        Another comparison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DKLA7w9eeA

        Windows tests: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AoIIIWyzLk

        • dosada on 07/11/2022 - 23:01
          -2

          Is this a joke? There is barely a difference between SATA and NVMe? I can tell you there is a lot fo difference in loading and re loading times in bigger games. Noticeable without any benchmarking tools.

          • eecan on 07/11/2022 - 23:06
            +7

            @dosada: In addition to the real life scenarios already shown above here's a comparison with more recent games:

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt_iJTrzOus

            Tests done between these two SSDs
            SSD M.2 PCIe 3.0 Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB
            SSD SATA3 Samsung 860 Evo-Series 1TB

            And another round of tests with the below:

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm_h0xSqtc0

            NVMe M.2 PCIe 4.0 SSD: Samsung 980 PRO 1TB
            NVMe M.2 PCIe 3.0 SSD: Samsung 970 PRO 1TB
            SATA III SSD: Samsung 860 EVO 1TB

            And one more:
            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQZD382GOUM

            • stevelo on 07/11/2022 - 23:24
              +1

              @eecan: Thanks for the link, first time checking out the difference. PCIe3 vs 4 performances is too close to pay more than 10% premium. SATA is definitely slower though, not by big margin but noticeable.

            • Lief on 07/11/2022 - 23:30

              @eecan: Interesting, the SATA SSD was actually measurably slower a couple times in the second video. I didn't expect that.
              I wonder if the gap would increase with newer CPUs since the biggest bottlenecks with game loading is generally in the CPU area.
              Or at least it was back in these days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE12J1iff10
              Still, you've definitely proven your main point. M.2 to M.2 there's probably going to be no difference until a gamechanger like DirectStorage comes into play

            • Doomedgrind on 08/11/2022 - 00:03

              @eecan: Looks like 1 second difference between them give or take yeah?

              • netsurfer on 08/11/2022 - 00:34
                +2

                @Doomedgrind: In most cases, assuming you have a decent SATA SSD already, you will find the CPU and GPU matters more. While DirectStorage API will help improve NVMe SSD loading speed, it will also provide significant benefit to SATA SSDs.

                The thing to remember is that, unless you are transferring files or generating video contents, its CPU and GPU doing most of the work. We wouldn't play at game where it spends 90% of the time loading assets from SSD.

      • netsurfer on 08/11/2022 - 00:28

        It doesn't top every benchmark and if you looked at the results carefully, you will notice just like other SSDs, it is optimised in some areas. Using Tomshardware's review as an example, one of the cons is:

        Sustained write performance is lower than expected

        The sustained write is disappointing. Overall, Samsung priorities reads over writes. Furthermore, its new controller's more powerful cores reduces latency, especially in reads. When you look at the results carefully, it is care Samsung knows how to top majority of the benchmark software.

        Anyway, PCIe gen 3 and gen 4 SSDs all cheat. I also wondered whether 990 Pro and SN850X are kinda preview for PCIe gen 5 SSD controllers.

        • UsernameChecksIn on 08/11/2022 - 05:21

          Dang 2TB out of stock :(

          Would be good if concise comment highlight summary had some contextualised proportions ~ how much lower than expected and vs other SSDs

          Does Samsung do the switcharoo on review models components vs retail models as well (slower controllers)

          Quick glance shows sustained write performance similar around other Samsung drives, potentially half of other leading brand lines HP WD Kingston (which was unexpected)

          Thought I read something about new caching algorithms

    • reader64 on 08/11/2022 - 01:51
      +1

      if you are gaming

      Then just put a crucial 1tb NVME in there.. for like 120 bucks

      There are ZERO..

      And by Zero i mean it,improvements in FPS,or load times on almost any NVME when games are concerned

      Gamersnexus,even proved the load time on RDR2 Bf2042,Mw19..and many others are the same from a standard 550Mbit,SSD to a NVME the diffrence was like 2 seconds or something

      These make sense for application tasks,and for the OS drive,and to get rid of cables..

      Whack 2 of these in a system and ur unlikely to need any sata cables at all

      • OnePoku on 08/11/2022 - 02:02

        So if I'm following correctly, either just go cheaper or at most buy a smaller sized high end drive as a boot drive?

      • Grazz989 on 08/11/2022 - 11:26

        Got a link for the crucial?

        I was gonna get one of these: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/735186 but 1TB would be plenty.

  • browser on 07/11/2022 - 22:46
    +2

    Thanks for the heads up, no wonder 980 Pro prices have come down and out of stock at some places.

  • snoopydoop on 07/11/2022 - 22:57

    What do 980 pros cost through the education portal?

    • RichardL on 07/11/2022 - 23:00
      +3

      Not much savings, basically RRP:

      • 980 PRO NVMe M.2 SSD 250GB - $109.65
      • 980 PRO NVMe M.2 SSD 500GB - $143.65
      • 980 PRO with Heatsink NVMe M.2 SSD 1TB - $249
      • 980 PRO NVMe M.2 SSD 2TB - $407.15
      • snoopydoop on 07/11/2022 - 23:01
        +1

        Wow, surprised the 2tb is $100 more than the 990.

        Thanks!

        • RichardL on 07/11/2022 - 23:02
          +2

          Yep, basically RRP ($409)

          Save $1.85

  • agentsmith1999 on 07/11/2022 - 23:03
    +1

    Any heatsink recommendations?

  • justtoreply on 07/11/2022 - 23:21
    -6

    4TB or bust. Stupid frickin microsoft being unable to code gamepass to install to anything other than C:\ no matter what you put into the settings

  • BrokeCamel on 07/11/2022 - 23:33

    Damn OOS for the 2TB

  • siberry on 07/11/2022 - 23:34

    Sold out now - it saying sign up for stock alerts

  • Wayne7497 on 08/11/2022 - 00:55

    Really doesn't make difference here pci gen 4 is bottleneck here, until pci gen 5 ssd come out kc3000 or wd ssd fast enough in real world situations . The % speed difference with this will barely noticeable

    • reader64 on 08/11/2022 - 01:53

      bottlneck for what though

      99.99 percent of ppl don't have a use case for these,they don't always run at 7000mbit,especially not when gaming

      I have a Gen4 drive with 7400mbit speeds,and the games barely use 45Mbit read write speeds,it's pointless.. best use case is as a scratch DISK for premier,or the OS boot

      • Wayne7497 on 08/11/2022 - 03:46

        Nothing but high end benchmarks really thats where it'll bottleneck, until pci gen 5 comes out nobody will see any difference, current am5 boards support gen 5 so might see some speed on them with gen 5 ssd.

      • UsernameChecksIn on 08/11/2022 - 05:32

        ^Please note 7000MB megabytes vs "mbit" in comment

        This is equivalent to 56000 mb megabits. 56 gb gigabits

        Many games show initial sequential read loads in gigabytes per second

        Imagine our future NBN 🤩

    • UsernameChecksIn on 08/11/2022 - 05:31

      PCIe Gen 4 can top out around 32GB/s depending on lanes

      Consider 7 GB/s marketed sequential read/write numbers

      Not capped unless we consider the number of lanes available in a single consumer system with other components.

      Next see ASUS and Gigabyte PCIe 4 and PCIe5 quad-NVMe cards
      Now where are those ol niche RAMDisk cards 🤔

  • dontbeatightarse on 08/11/2022 - 06:49

    2tb OOS.

  • scuderiarmani on 08/11/2022 - 06:53

    https://youtu.be/t5yC1PlhHJE

    Doesn't seem Samsung is as good as it once was.

    Though tbh I think the difference at this level is overstated for most users.

    • dontbeatightarse on 08/11/2022 - 07:50

      The gen 5 SSDs run way too hot and put strain on chip sets. Chipset temps running 80 degrees with PCIE 4 already.

      • kehuehue on 11/11/2022 - 11:25

        By chipset you mean the southbridge chipsets or ones on the ssd?

  • HoochieMamma on 08/11/2022 - 22:10
    +4

    2TB back in stock

  • browser on 09/11/2022 - 00:36

    Login use Unidays, then I realised that PCIe 5.0 requires 12th gen Intel CPU. Oh well, my desktop is running on 10700, not even PCIe 4.0.

    • dogsryummy on 09/11/2022 - 02:35

      You can always migrate the drive over when you upgrade

      • browser on 12/11/2022 - 08:31
        +1

        Nah, don't see a need to upgrade in a couple of years, by then there will better/cheaper drives.

    • Grazz989 on 10/11/2022 - 11:49

      How do you log in using unidays?

      • browser on 12/11/2022 - 08:28

        Asked my daughter to login. :D

  • deadman00124 on 09/11/2022 - 14:33

    Just ordered one, replacing a 512gb intel 660p drive in my 12th gen system

    i use VM's a lot on my desktop and various other apps so iops going from 90k to 1500k is a big difference depending on work load

  • donman92 on 09/11/2022 - 15:36
    +2

    I got the WD Black SN850X on sale but am considering selling it to get this. Is it worth it?

    • [Deactivated] on 10/11/2022 - 10:11
      +1

      My WD sn850 doesn't recognise in bios. It's been a huge pain dealing with WD customer service, and it's been unanimously true for everybody online with the same issue. This problem has been occuring continuously without a fix since 2020. They all swapped to Samsung and had zero issues. I'll never touch an WD M2 again.

      • User50301 on 11/11/2022 - 02:24
        +1

        WD SN850 and WD SN850X are two different models.

  • Tleaves on 09/11/2022 - 19:41

    If only I had a uni account…

  • Eugenekrabs on 10/11/2022 - 17:32

    If i want to use this in my Playstation 5 should i get the heatsink version so that it doesn't throttle, or would this be good enough and there will be no difference between the two? I've read that the 990 is more efficient than the 980 so i'm guessing that means it runs cooler.

  • Grazz989 on 10/11/2022 - 17:52

    The reviews for this site worry me. Should I use PayPal or an (ANZ) Credit card to pay? Which of the two are more likely to do a chargeback in case they don't honour the warranty?

  • snoopydoop on 11/11/2022 - 23:55

    In the terms and conditions it says "Offer limited to one 990 pro per customer", but I am able to checkout with two.

    Is there a risk they would increase the price on me after checking out, or I'd be all in the clear?

    • browser on 12/11/2022 - 08:30

      Interesting, I tried to checkout a 1TB and a 512GB, it said exceeded limit. Maybe they forgot to check multiple of the same product.

      • snoopydoop on 12/11/2022 - 08:32

        It's possible I haven't gone far enough through the process - didn't click "pay now" or anything. Maybe I'll give it a crack.

  • svict4 on 17/11/2022 - 15:42

    This is not just for the Education store, if you're an Australian Government public servant (and can confirm you're .gov.au email address) then you're all eligible.
    https://www.samsung.com/au/estore/samsung-government-store/

  • In5tag8r on 17/11/2022 - 17:51
    +1

    Can anyone still get the 2tb. I could get through work account but its marked as out of stock

  • metka2 on 19/11/2022 - 14:01

    For those worried about customer service, I received tracking details on Friday the 18th. Given this is a preorder due for release on the 21st of Nov I think thats pretty good. I spoke to customer service via chat prior to purchase and they were very helpful. So far so good.

  • FusionX on 25/11/2022 - 17:47

    Has anyone gotten any updates on their preorder yet? I've ordered mine on the 16th but still shows up with 'preparing order' on the order.

    • tomtoms91 on 28/11/2022 - 21:12

      I'm in the same boat, ordered the 16th and mine says preparing order.

  • findingbargains on 28/11/2022 - 10:18
    +1

    2TB available for preorder again on Samsung EDU website now at around $329.

    • xdigger on 29/11/2022 - 13:24
      +1

      Wondering if it will drop to <$300 for Xmas?

    • JohnSy on 04/12/2022 - 19:21

      I ordered a 2TB around the end of November for $329 - delivery was originally scheduled for later in December, but it got delivered a few days ago which was nice.

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