At 7,250MB/s, the Samsung 990 just became our best-value 2TB SSD right now as Amazon drops the price by $200
THE SO WHAT
NVMe like the 2TB Samsung 990 hitting 7,250MB/s at a steep discount means storage is no longer the bottleneck for most workstation and edge-AI builds—it’s thermals, memory, and networking. If you’re speccing dev rigs or local inference nodes, stop overpaying for “enterprise” SSDs and redirect that budget to RAM and GPUs.
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