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£192.08 inc. VAT
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For £160.15 ex-VAT, the Samsung 990 PRO is the sort of SSD you buy when you want “it just works” in a business workflow—fast boot times, snappy app loads, and consistently high performance under day-to-day pressure. Samsung’s controller/V-NAND tuning is usually excellent for real-world responsiveness, not just benchmark bragging rights, and the 1TB size makes it a sensible default for workstations, VDI hosts (where supported), and tech-refresh cycles where drives get swapped in and then forgotten about.
That said, I wouldn’t get it at this price if you’re just chucking it into general office PCs where performance differences won’t be felt, or if budget is the main driver—you can often find good PCIe 4.0 drives that hit “fast enough” at less cost. Also, if you’re running heavy sustained writes (certain content pipelines, scrubbing jobs, or intensive database workloads), you should sanity-check workload fit and expected endurance rather than buying purely on headline speed. If your priority is reliability and predictable performance for a standard business environment, this is a solid buy; if you’re trying to optimise cost per GB for light usage, it’s probably overkill.

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