Samsung 990 QLC DRAMless Gen4 2TB SSD Review – Choosing Between This & the TLC-based 990 EVO Plus

PCMARK 10 FULL SYSTEM STORAGE BENCHMARK

PCMark 10 Storage Benchmarks provide an overall score that reflects a drive’s performance, making comparisons between devices straightforward. In addition to the score, the tests report bandwidth and average access times. Each benchmark is based on traces captured during real-world tasks, including booting Windows 10, launching applications like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, working in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, and copying both large and small files.

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A score of 4397 places in the bottom third of PCMark 10 Full System Storage Benchmark tests conducted and this chart depicts the SSDs placement amongst other competing SSDs.

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PCMARK 10 QUICK SYSTEM STORAGE BENCHMARK

The Quick System Drive Benchmark is a subset of the Full test and is more representative of typical daily usage to show what would be expected regarding hybrid SSD performance on a day-to-day basis.

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A score of 5748 places in the bottom third of PCMark 10 Quick System Storage Benchmark tests conducted and this chart depicts the SSDs placement amongst other competing SSDs.

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TRUE DATA TESTING

For our True Data Testing, we simply loaded 15GB video, music, photo and OS files onto the Samsung 990 Gen4 2TB SSD and copied the data to a new folder on that same disk.

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This chart depicts the SSDs placement amongst other competing SSDs.

PASSMARK PERFORMANCE TEST

We thought we might add a few extras in our report today, PassMark Performance Test DiskMark component being a nice addition. This software tests sequential reads and writes, along with IOPS and compares the result with millions of other SSDs worldwide. We might suggest being in the 88th percentile of all SSDs tested was an expected result.

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A score of 44650 places in the bottom third of Performance Tests conducted and this chart depicts the SSDs placement amongst other competing SSDs.

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FINAL FANTASY XIV: ENDWALKER BENCHMARK

The Final Fantasy Benchmark is a new tool in our arsenal and geared specifically to the gamer. The software is installed directly on the SSD and the SSD tested, providing and end result of FPS and scene transition times.

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Game load time testing for the Samsung 990 Gen4 2TB SSD came in at 6.851 seconds which was a mid-range placement.

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