The Samsung 990 Pro, a high-performance gaming SSD, is now available with up to 40% discount during Amazon’s Spring Sale.

Having spent a good chunk of this morning window-shopping SSDs, I’m prepared to point knowingly at the Samsung 990 and mouth “That one”, thus crowning it as the best NVMe drive deal of the Amazon Spring Sale. Especially so, if you’re concerned about the swelling storage footprint of contemporary games, as the sale is focusing on the most cavernous 2TB and 4TB capacities.

The 990 Pro has popped up on RPS a few times, but if you’re unfamiliar, this basically forms a triumvirate with the WD Black SN850x and the Crucial T500 as the three finest examples of game load-time cutting in the mainstream PCIe 4.0 SSD space. Newer PCIe 5.0 drives can just about edge them, but not to the degree that their far higher price is justified, and with some help from the sales that gap gets even wider. All three of these deals, in fact, drop the 990 Pro to its lowest pricing since at least last year’s Black Friday.

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If you’re on an older PC, it’ll be worth checking to see that your motherboard and CPU do support PCIe 4.0 storage before you start dropping cash on such an upgrade. More modern rigs should be fine, though, and like I said, PCIe 5.0 drives aren’t enough of a step forward that you should be worried about obsolescence. It’s much smarter to use your budget on a massive 4.0 SSD today than it is to get a smaller 5.0 model, especially if it’s one as good as the 990 Pro.