Samsung 990 PRO PCIe 4.0 M.2 NVMe 4TB SSD $450 Delivered @ cheaperretail eBay Australia

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I received a price drop alert from this listing. They were previously selling it anywhere from $475-500 but this weekend they've reduced the price to $450.

While not as good as the recent Samsung Secret Sale price, it's cheaper than the Australian retailers on staticice & Amazon AU.

Edit: I've been monitoring this one to see if it changes. The price reverted back to $500 but there's an eBay code SSNOW (added to the deal) now appearing, which brings it back to $450

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Save $50 off the Seller’s Price when you spend between $500 - $999 in one transaction; or **
Save $100 off the Seller’s Price when you spend between $1,000 - $1,999 in one transaction; or
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  • Bigfellaborham on 04/05/2025 - 14:17
    +2

    Getting closer to traditional HDDs

    • nottoobright on 04/05/2025 - 15:32

      For $450 you can get 12-16TB HDD so still 4x diff for approx 4x the speed

      • Nom on 04/05/2025 - 15:36
        +19

        It's about 30x the speed of a mechanical drive.

        30x.

        Not 4x.

        • Fuzzyduck on 04/05/2025 - 17:32

          Ohhhhhhhhh snap. 30x snappier to be precise

        • jason andrade on 04/05/2025 - 18:44
          +2

          Yeah nah.

          It depends on the metric you’re measuring.

          • Sequential read? (7500Mbyte/sec vs 200Mbyte/sec)

          • Write speed?

          • Random read/write?

          • IOPs? 1.6M vs 200-500.

          Between 10x to 100,000x depending.. 🤷🏾

  • Motozine on 04/05/2025 - 14:25
    +27

    Be careful. Seems like its issue ain't solved https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/1h2gx5t/is_the_is…

    • povie on 04/05/2025 - 15:11
      +2

      Damn just got this for $475 from this seller last week after Tech Notice rated it one of the best. Might return after hearing about these degradation issues. Need something reliable as a dedicated work drive.

      • AUBRX on 05/05/2025 - 12:18

        Those articles all have products to sell, they are incentivised to write up their free tech in a good light to drive sales to the respective companies. You can't always put your faith in them. Even moreso now in the age of monetising everything and anything on the internet.

        • povie on 05/05/2025 - 16:15

          Thanks, either the Kingston KC3000 or SN850x seem to perform well under heavy workload. I'll wait for a good deal there.

          • parad0x on 05/05/2025 - 18:48

            @povie: HP FX700 ftw. Cheaper, faster, cooler & more reliable.

            • 8bitsperbyte on 06/05/2025 - 08:44

              @parad0x: The HP FX700 is a DRAM'less QLC SSD, whereas the Kingston KC3000 and WD SN850x are both DRAM TLC SSDs.

              Because of that, the FX700 loses to the KC3000 and SN850x in heavy workloads.

              The FX700 is cheaper only because it's a mid-range SSD. The 990 PRO, KC3000, and SN850x are all high-end SSDs.

              • povie on 11/05/2025 - 16:11

                @8bitsperbyte: This is the explanation i couldn't word myself. Thank you!

    • Zaptruder on 04/05/2025 - 15:43
      +2

      Oof. 'Good deal' to terrible deal.

    • AdamFury on 04/05/2025 - 15:50
      +1

      Is there a comparible drive to this? I've always used Samsung drives for my builds and looking at picking up a 4TB. This was going to be my pick but obviously would like to avoid issues…

      Seems like wd black sn850x is a close match.

      • greatlamp on 04/05/2025 - 16:34
        +1

        SK Hynix p41

        They don't come in 4TB though.

      • Sleepycat3 on 04/05/2025 - 18:18
        +1

        SN850X is nice, that is what I use as an alternative to the 980 Pro. Did not buy into the 990 Pro.

      • Mrbtree98 on 04/05/2025 - 20:16

        Just taking a look at pcpp there's the Crucial T500 which multiple retailers have on sale for $409 right now which I believe makes that the cheapest 4tb gen 4 nvme with a dram cache right now

    • turtlesinmypants on 04/05/2025 - 16:39
      +4

      I am not glad I purchased this device. Much prefer the earlier model or the SN850X.
      The 990 overheats and throttles (even with spreader, and my wear health rating is already at 96% under 12mo, faster than any other SSD I've owned.

      • OMan on 04/05/2025 - 17:07

        I am super happy with the 990Pro 4TB drive. I have not experience any issues with hear or degradation. This drive replaced a 2TB Seagate Barracuda 530 before
        I have been running this drive for the last 7 months. It is my OS drive and I run a couple of VMs and my main games from it (CoD and Halo).
        It is at 98% life after having written 52TB that is good. Also, it runs a lot colder than any of the other drives in my PC:
        Samsung 990Pro: 38c
        Crucial P5: 50c. This drive has 97% life with 9TBW
        Pny CS2241: 45c
        WD Black SN850X: 56c

        I am using Seagate Seatools and HW Monitor tools to get drive life information and temperature.

        • Rage Roze on 04/05/2025 - 17:43

          I must got lucky with my 990 Pro from last samsung deal before it while my SN850 runs hot and I have tried changing heatsinks on sn850

          Maximum temperature (ever measured)

          990 Pro 43 degrees
          SN850 66 degrees

          • Sleepycat3 on 04/05/2025 - 18:25

            @Rage Roze: It depends which slot the M.2 drive is in. The 1st M.2 slot between the CPU and GPU is the warmest. My 970 Evo is in that slot and has a 58 C idle temperature. I have another 970 Evo, but it is in the M.2 slot that is between the 3rd and 4th PCIe slot, and it idles at 39 C. Then I have another drive of a different brand on a riser card in a PCIe slot, and it idles at 31 C. My 2x 2TB 980 Pros are in a HyperX bifurcation card with active cooling, and they idle at 28 C.

            • Rage Roze on 05/05/2025 - 10:32

              @Sleepycat3: sn850 is on second m2 slot atm which is right under gpu with motherboard heatsink to cover it.
              I don't think that makes whole difference as I tried changing computers/heatsinks

        • Sleepycat3 on 04/05/2025 - 18:22

          98% after 52TB on a 4TB drive seems high. My 970 Evo 2TB has 63TB written, and is at 99%. I also have a 2TB 980 Pro with 64TB written, and that is reporting 97%. There is not much consistency is how they report percentage used.

          • OMan on 04/05/2025 - 21:55

            @Sleepycat3: The 2% seems correct. The TBW for that drive is 2,400TB. 52TB is about 2% of that. I had a 970 in my old PC and that runs hotter.

            I am running the Samsung 990Pro drive in the first slot as ASUS recommendation, and I am using the ASUS heat sink.

        • autolux on 05/05/2025 - 09:35

          this; my 4tb 990 pro has been rock solid.

    • skysailz on 04/05/2025 - 19:01

      ymmv but i've been running two in my system with no issues. one since march last year and the other for longer than that.

  • brandy92 on 04/05/2025 - 14:37
    +1

    $100/TB coming right up.

    • Charity on 05/05/2025 - 00:14

      Still got a brand new one for $284 on 27 June 2024 on Amazon

  • Kazusa on 04/05/2025 - 14:52
    +1

    Not that great of a deal considering they were $320 last month (369-37 Samsung pay discount - $17 first app order discount)

    Just wait for Samsung monthly secret sale

    • CurrentCalculations on 04/05/2025 - 15:18
      +3

      Samsung was cheaper during their sale but there's no guarentee that they'll discount the same product again.
      If you look through their previous sales, the products seem to change each time.

  • Steven Reece Lewis on 04/05/2025 - 16:18
    +4

    So are prices going up or coming down on Nvme storage overall? What's the pattern currently?

    • Rage Roze on 05/05/2025 - 10:29
      +2

      Slowly going up.

      The last Samsung deal which was $299.59 for 4tb 990 PRO was the only time this year, we finally got 2024 ssd prices.

  • vlahka on 04/05/2025 - 16:51
    +3

    Stick to the 980. The 990s have issues. Wish I hadnt bought mine. 2 years later and its telling me its in critical shape, despite me using other drives to run programs on and save files on and not using it much aside from windows.

    • Schrodinger on 04/05/2025 - 18:01

      I bought one from the last sale. Still haven't used it yet.. Isn't there a FW update that fixes this? Is it hardware issue?

      • vlahka on 04/05/2025 - 18:10
        +2

        I read it was just poor construction at some new factory or such. I havent heard anything about a FW patch but I'll take a look.

        Ok supposedly I'm running the latest firmware thats meant to have fixed this issue. Sure. Fixed alright.

  • HuzzahIndeed on 04/05/2025 - 18:05

    I haven’t had any issues with the 3 2TB 990 Pro PCIe NVMe 4.0 M.2 SSDs with heatsinks I bought from JB HiFi in October last year and January this year. The one I bought in October 2024 was manufactured in December 2023 and the 2 I bought at the end of January were manufactured at the beginning of January 2025. The one with the oldest manufacture date is installed in my PS5 Pro, and the other 2 are in a slim PS5 and an original PS5. I believe there has been a new firmware update since December 2023 too, but I have never bothered to plug any of them into a PC to check for new firmware, and they’re all working as they should just fine. All 3 2TB Samsung 990 Pro SSDs with heatsinks cost me $662 in total from JB HiFi which I think was a great price, and I have been happy with my purchases. If they do crap themselves then they are covered by a 5 year warranty so I’ll just take them straight back to JB and swap them over for brand new ones in store.

    • bruhminister on 04/05/2025 - 18:17
      +2

      That's the thing.. your drives are in your PS5. If there's something going wrong you probably won't know till it finally gives out.. and since mostly everything on a PS5 is backed up on PSN, you probably won't lose anything valuable.. however far in the future it maybe.

      While people who have it in their PCs have the ability to check said statistics and hence have a reason to worry about it.. the concerns about the wear are valid and is troubling when you spend that much.

      • HuzzahIndeed on 04/05/2025 - 19:05
        +2

        @bruhminister The link to Reddit further up the page only tells half of the story, and is possibly promoting unnecessary concern and fear. If you search Reddit more in depth there are other threads that discuss the issue with the 990 pros, and how it’s evidently only certain batches that are affected from 2 plus years ago, and apparently the issue was rectified in newer batches from the first half of 2023 onwards. As I previously said my 3 990 Pros are quite new, 1 was manufactured in December 2023 and the other 2 in January 2025, I’ll happily take them out of the 3 PS5 consoles they’re installed in and plug them into my PC to check if their health has degraded, I’m confident they’ll show to be in perfect health.

  • Dollar Dreamer on 04/05/2025 - 18:56
    +3

    Don't put these in enclosures (I can smell all you new Mac Mini users ever struggling for storage). They run hot, have high idle power consumption. Replaced mine with a Crucial T500 4TB and much cooler and just as fast. Or if you do not need the absolute peak speed of the Samsung and Crucial drives, get a Dramless Lexar NM790 4TB for even less power draw and much lower heat than those 2.

  • justtoreply on 04/05/2025 - 23:20
    +1

    In short, seems we're not entirely sure on these newer Samsung drives, but with data it's never worth a risk.

  • Dyl on 05/05/2025 - 08:35
    +1

    It’s offering me an extra $5 off with my eBay plus

  • AUBRX on 05/05/2025 - 11:55

    Anyone had problems with these? I've read some pretty horrific failure stories with little acknowledgement or help from Samsung customer service.

  • abbeyroad on 05/05/2025 - 13:13

    Is there much difference between this and the Lexar NM790 4TB for $365? (mwave)

    • OMan on 05/05/2025 - 16:24
      +1

      I tested the 990pro 4tb and the Lexar NM790 1tb using CrystalDiskmark. Reading speeds was almost the same and writing speed the 990 was 9.5% faster.
      990Pro: Read 7142.58 Write: 6966.08
      NM790: Read 7124.52 Write: 6600.05

      Lexar is better value for sure.

      • abbeyroad on 05/05/2025 - 16:41

        Thanks mate!

  • CurrentCalculations on 05/05/2025 - 14:13
    +1

    Just so everyone is aware:
    The price reverted back to $500 but there's an eBay code SSNOW (added to the deal) now appearing, which brings it back to $450.
    Probably not a coincidence there XD. The code would have only been $10 off when it was $450.

  • motion2082 on 05/05/2025 - 16:49

    My 2GB 990 runs hot at 44C, well within limits but still hotter than most other drives

    • Shootinputin89 on 08/05/2025 - 18:40

      Check out the Silverstone TP05 Heatsink for M.2. Works well. Not too expensive.

  • Shootinputin89 on 08/05/2025 - 18:42

    Good to see the TBW is up there - I mean, it's not really efficient, but at 4TB it's still over 2PB. However, I need deals on actual enterprise / datacentre grade M.2. Without features like PLP (power loss protection), I just can't use drives like this with stuff like Proxmox / ZFS. Need some deals on some Micron, etc.

    • parad0x on 09/05/2025 - 19:05

      You want enterprise deals? Place an order for 500,000 units

    • Nom on 09/05/2025 - 21:59

      There's a gazillion listed on eBay at any moment in time, just set your search to Worldwide and setup a daily email search for the model numbers you're interested in.

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