Samsung 990 Pro Heatsink 2TB

[Julijans]

Hey, I'm planning to buy Samsung 990 Pro Heatsink 2TB, but when I started to look at the reviews, some of them say it's very good, some of them says that 50% of its health gets used in a month.. Is it true? Any other recommendations?

[Tetras]

How old are the bad reviews? There was an issue with the firmware at one point.

[Millios]

Unless your mobo doesnt have a heatsink for the m.2s and you get an ssd that runs super hot that you are gonna stress a lot theres no need to get an ssd with a heatsink to begin with

The 990 pro had degregation issues a while back which according to some got fixed in later batches so it'll depend when the ssd you got was made

I'd go with western digital sn770 or 850x tho to have reliability(not that samsung isnt but WD is as well) speed and no known issues and call it a day

[Julijans]

Yeah, I chose the heatsink version because my motherboard doesnt have a heatsink in the M2 slot and I don't want to risk it :D. My main focus is gaming (Mainly CS2, other multiplayer games like FiveM, Forza Horizon 5, etc..) and video editing.

Also my CPU is 7 5700x3d and it would be good for it to have an ssd with dram cache? I don't know much about PCs, that's what chatgpt told me xdd
Is this the model that you gave me? 

WD_BLACK SN850X NVMe SSD 2TB Internal SSD

[Millios]

16 minutes ago, Julijans said:

 that's what chatgpt told me xd

Oh boy....

Probably the worst advice you could get, grok, meta ai and gemini included

For really ANY issue that has importance or isnt just general encyclipedic knowledge

16 minutes ago, Julijans said:

Yeah, I chose the heatsink version because my motherboard doesnt have a heatsink in the M2 slot and I don't want to risk it :D. My main focus is gaming (Mainly CS2, other multiplayer games like FiveM, Forza Horizon 5, etc..) and video editing.

Unless you work constantly with 4K footage and super large files (doubt you do) a normal one will still be fine

 

17 minutes ago, Julijans said:

Is this the model that you gave me? 

WD_BLACK SN850X NVMe SSD 2TB Internal SSD

Yep

[porina]

39 minutes ago, Julijans said:

Hey, I'm planning to buy Samsung 990 Pro Heatsink 2TB, but when I started to look at the reviews, some of them say it's very good, some of them says that 50% of its health gets used in a month.. Is it true? Any other recommendations?

I've had a 990 Pro for just over a year, daily gaming system so almost always in use. Mine's gone down a whole 1% in health in that time.

 

The problems with it were fixed over 2 years ago. If you're getting a new one now, it'll be fine, although to be absolutely sure I'd always do a firmware update check on any new SSD before using it seriously.

 

FWIW my model is with heatsink. I didn't pick it specifically, but it was cheaper/available compared to other options.

 

33 minutes ago, Millios said:

I'd go with western digital sn770 or 850x tho to have reliability(not that samsung isnt but WD is as well) speed and no known issues and call it a day

Some WD HMB SSDs, which includes 770, had a BSOD problem with Win11 24H2 requiring a firmware update from WD to resolve. This was more recent than the 990 Pro problems of the past. 850 is not affected by that at least.

 

In general, there isn't a problem until there is, and there is no way to predict if that will happen.

[Millios]

Just now, porina said:

Some WD HMB SSDs, which includes 770, had a BSOD problem with Win11 24H2 requiring a firmware update from WD to resolve. This was more recent than the 990 Pro problems of the past. 850 is not affected by that at least.

 

In general, there isn't a problem until there is, and there is no way to predict if that will happen.

Wouldnt be suprised if 24H2 was the issue itself...

Not the first time windows created a problem that didnt exist till they made it

[podkall]

35 minutes ago, Julijans said:

Yeah, I chose the heatsink version because my motherboard doesnt have a heatsink in the M2 slot and I don't want to risk it :D. My main focus is gaming (Mainly CS2, other multiplayer games like FiveM, Forza Horizon 5, etc..) and video editing.

Also my CPU is 7 5700x3d and it would be good for it to have an ssd with dram cache? I don't know much about PCs, that's what chatgpt told me xdd

You don't need Samsung 990 for gaming PC, or Samsung 990 with heatsink.

[Julijans]

Okay but if I still get the 990 pro, at what temps I should consider getting a heatsink? 

[Millios]

8 minutes ago, Julijans said:

Okay but if I still get the 990 pro, at what temps I should consider getting a heatsink? 

Why are you so stuck at getting a heatsink?
(btw use the little are below the texts to quote us so we can see what you say)

[Julijans]

Just now, Millios said:

Why are you so stuck at getting a heatsink?
(btw use the little are below the texts to quote us so we can see what you say)

Idk, I'm just really scared to buy an SSD and damage it by overheating or something like that. I wanna just upgrade it, and leave it as it is for the next 5 years, without any upgrades or replaces :Dd

[Millios]

1 minute ago, Julijans said:

Idk, I'm just really scared to buy an SSD and damage it by overheating or something like that. I wanna just upgrade it, and leave it as it is for the next 5 years, without any upgrades or replaces :Dd

You arent gonna do anything with it to overheat it unless you are doing 4K HEAVY video editing and transfer HUGE files like everyday

Just get a good reliable SSD like an sn850x and call it a day man

[porina]

1 hour ago, Julijans said:

Idk, I'm just really scared to buy an SSD and damage it by overheating or something like that. I wanna just upgrade it, and leave it as it is for the next 5 years, without any upgrades or replaces :Dd

If the controller overheats, which it can do if you stress it hard enough for long enough, worst case is it'll throttle and you lose a bit of perf. The flash itself isn't going to get hot enough to be a problem unless you apply external heat. For most normal usage you're not going to hit that. I also have a 980 Pro without heatsink in another system that was in intensive use for several years. Never noticed a perf drop from it. The 980 Pro was bought 4 years ago and still in active use right now. Basically if the SSD is not near another major heat source and/or has some clear airflow around it, it'll probably be fine.

 

Actually, I have cooked one SSD, as the M.2 slot was right under a GPU which was running 24/7 load at the time. Since it was on the mobo side of the GPU, there wasn't any room for the hot air to escape that side. 

[Doobeedoo]

I have one with and one without heatsink, both are good. Very early batch on release had some firmware issues, that was fixes long ago.

[ewitte]

20 hours ago, podkall said:

You don't need Samsung 990 for gaming PC, or Samsung 990 with heatsink.

I mean really you can game off a 5200 RPM HDD but you're not going to have a good time.  TBH if you look at other brand name TLC drives with DRAM you can save maybe 10%, possibly 15% on some really good sales.  Where you start to get into stupid $$ pricing is the 9100 pro level drives.

[podkall]

On 5/18/2025 at 7:36 PM, Julijans said:

Okay but if I still get the 990 pro, at what temps I should consider getting a heatsink? 

You can just get the NVME and see how it performs.

 

You can also get different NVMEs, lot of NVMEs have heatsink versions but don't inherently need heatsink to work properly.

 

8 hours ago, ewitte said:

I mean really you can game off a 5200 RPM HDD but you're not going to have a good time.  TBH if you look at other brand name TLC drives with DRAM you can save maybe 10%, possibly 15% on some really good sales.  Where you start to get into stupid $$ pricing is the 9100 pro level drives.

Depends, HDD isn't terrible it just has to be the right HDD and preferably 7200RPM.

 

And for gaming you don't even need DRAM cache, personal opinion, but you only need DRAM cache when your NVME is both windows and files/games, otherwise you don't really need DRAM cache, especially for gaming. And even for both Windows+files you can get by with DRAM-less NVME. NVMEs aren't slow.

[Paul17]

Totally unrelated but I can't find 'which m.2 nvme ssd' posts - that are recent.

Is the Teamgroup A440 worth getting?  It's not the 'Pro' version - can't find that anymore but I think it has DRAM?

 

It's probably the cheapest out of the SDRAM 2tb m.2 nvme ssds.   I think the Samsung is good but it's always way overrpriced - imho - well, the 2tb version is.    Here's it's well over $200 - i.e. $250 CAD.

 

They keep going up in price - sometimes, there's discounts eventually - temporarily - but, I don't have the $$ atm - so, I'm just wondering if certain ones are good and I'll pull the trigger when I have the $$.

 

Imho, alternatives to the Samsung SSD:

* Kingston KC3000

* WD 850X

* Seagate 530R

* Corsair MP600 Pro

* Crucial T500

* PNY 3140

* Teamgroup A440 (????? - maybe?)