Samsung 990 SSD review: Good, but not great. Is AI to blame?
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If SSDs are being tuned and priced for AI‑style bursty workloads—fast until the secondary cache is exhausted—general users may be paying AI premiums for worse sustained performance. Infra and desktop buyers should read beyond the “AI‑ready” label and match storage choices to their actual write patterns, not the marketing narrative.
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