Samsung's 'absolutely stellar' 2TB 990 Pro SSD earned a 5-star review from us — and it's just got a massive discount at Amazon
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High-end PCIe 4.0 SSDs getting discounted into commodity territory lowers the cost of local scratch space for AI and media workloads. If you’re I/O bound on dev machines or edge boxes, this is a cheap way to buy back latency headroom.
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