990 PRO

Not needed. Just reuse the black heat shielding sticker that comes with the stock SSD and put it on your new one when swapping them over. I’ve had a 4TB Samsung 990 Pro in my old Ally X, and temps were perfectly fine. And now I have a 4TB 990 Evo Plus in my current Xbox Ally X and temps are fine the

I went with Samsung 990 pro 4TB as their heat sink is much better at handling heat.

i went through this last month with my M4. for reliability i'd look at the Samsung 990 Pro or WD Black SN850X. both have solid controllers and good heat management. some of the cheaper drives do fail over time especially with constant read writes. the 990 Pro has been super stable for me and works f

i upgraded from an led to the lg c3 last year and the difference in dark games is night and day - no blooming at all. the brightness booster on the 55" c5 is real, it pushes highlights harder especially in hdr. if your room isn't tiny, go 55" - you'll regret the 48" later. the c4 is basically the sa

i feel you on wanting more space. the XPS 15 9520 only has one M.2 slot, so you'd have to replace your 1TB drive. both those options work but the Samsung 990 Pro is overkill for that machine since it's PCIe 4.0 but the laptop runs at 3.0 speeds. honestly the Crucial P3 4TB is plenty fast and costs l

This happened to me when my Samsung 990pro /w heatsink NVMe SSD was faulty/overheating awhile back. It did that eventually alongside intermittent grey screen crashes .Got a new sn850x and all it’s all fixed. This reminds me I still have to RMA my Samsung

If the 990 pro and 9100 pro cost the same to them for the same capacity, why settle for the Gen 4? Gen 4 will have to be cheaper by at least 15% to me to justify not grabbing the Gen 5 when the Gen 5 drive isn't one of those that thermal throttles to death (Samsung 9100 Pro is a very cool running dr