Samsung SSD prices, compared

Which Samsung SSD should you buy?

The 9100 Pro is a PCIe 5.0 drive. It works in a PCIe 4.0 slot, but only at PCIe 4.0 speeds; if your motherboard or laptop has no PCIe 5.0 M.2 slot, the 990 Pro gives you the same real-world speed for the money.

When the 9100 Pro and 990 Pro sell for about the same, as they often have this year, take the 9100 Pro if you have a PCIe 5.0 slot or might move the drive to one.

The 990 EVO Plus is Samsung’s value drive. It is fine for games and everyday use; it only matters for long, heavy file copies, where the Pro drives hold their speed better.

Don’t pay Samsung’s store price without checking the retailers. On the day this page went up, most of the retailer prices for the 2TB drives were $200 or more under Samsung’s own figure.

How we check these prices

Every price on this page was read from the retailer’s own product page (Samsung, Amazon, Best Buy, Newegg), and every page is re-read once a week. The date beside each price is the day it was last confirmed. List prices come from the manufacturer’s own store; struck-through prices are the retailer’s own “was” price, never one we worked out. Out-of-stock listings stay in the table, marked, and never count as the lowest price. When a page cannot be read reliably, the previous price stays up with its original date rather than being guessed.