Samsung's new 2TB 990 SSD is 38% off at Amazon today
- ID
- 39251
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 25 Oct 2026, 9:43 PM
- Fetched
- 25 Oct 2026, 9:59 PM
- Provider
- Tom's Hardware
- Category
- technology
- Original URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/samsungs-new-2tb-990-ssd-is-38-percent-off-at-amazon-today-get-usd200-off-this-pcie-4-0-all-rounder-drive-for-a-limited-time
- Source URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/feeds/all
Summary
- Score
- 2.0
- Created
- 25 Oct 2026, 9:59 PM
- Tags
- Audience
- developersvibe_coders
What happened
Tom's Hardware flags a limited-time Amazon deal on Samsung's 2TB 990 SSD: 38% off, described as $200 off, for this PCIe 4.0 drive. The article body is almost entirely site navigation and membership boilerplate, so the only concrete facts available are those in the headline — no tested speeds, no final price, no benchmark data.
Why it matters
Not much to act on: there is no listed sale price, no endurance rating (TBW), no controller/DRAM details, and no independent benchmark in the text, so you cannot judge whether this beats a comparable PCIe 4.0 2TB drive on price-per-GB or sustained-write behaviour for local model or dataset storage. If you were considering it, you would need the actual checkout price and specs from the retailer page before deciding.
Discussion angle
Briefly: is a 2TB PCIe 4.0 drive still the right buy for local model weights and datasets, or is the money better spent on cloud/API credits — and what spec (TBW, DRAM cache, sustained write) do you actually check before buying?