Samsung 980 Pro Deal: Top-Rated SSD Hits Record Low Price

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The 2TB Samsung 980 Pro has long been our top recommendation on our list of Best SSDs , with our only reservation being the premium pricing that's befitting of the best SSD on the market. However, now you can pick up the 2TB 980 Pro for $279 during Black Friday , an all-time low price for an SSD that typically retails for around $380.

Samsung seemed late to the PCIe 4.0 SSD party, but as you can see in our Samsung 980 Pro M.2 NVMe SSD Review , it arrived with a new controller and flash that set the new standard for consumer M.2 NVMe SSDs.

Paired with Samsung's latest V-NAND flash, the 980 Pro delivers a chart-topping 7 GB/s of sequential read and 5 GB/s of sequential write performance. It's even more impressive in the random workloads that quantify how fast an SSD is in daily use, blasting out an impressive one million random read/write IOPS.

Notably, the 980 Pro comes in different capacities, like 250GB, 500GB, and 1TB, but the smaller models aren't as fast as this 2TB revision.

Samsung 980 Pro 2TB:  was $429, now $279 with promo code BFFRDY73 at Newegg (save $150)

Samsung 980 Pro 2TB: was $429, now $279 with promo code BFFRDY73 at Newegg (save $150)
The 2TB Samsung Pro 2TB is at all-time low pricing. This NVMe M.2 SSD delivers up to 7GB/s of read and 5 GB/s for write throughput in tandem with a blistering 1 million read/write IOPS.

The Samsung 980 Pro comes in the M.2 form factor and features a PCIe 4.0 x4 connection. In addition, the 2TB Samsung 980 Pro comes with a five-year warranty and can absorb 1,200 terabytes of data over its warranty period, which is more than enough endurance for most users. The drive also comes with AES 256-bit encryption for the security-conscious.

Samsung also includes access to its Data Migration software, simplifying copying over your existing drive to the 980 Pro, and the Magician software that makes SSD management a snap. You can also leverage the company's custom NVMe driver that unlocks an extra bit of performance.

Product980 PRO 2TB
Pricing$429.99
Capacity (User / Raw)2000GB / 2048GB
Form FactorM.2 2280
Interface / ProtocolPCIe 4.0 x4 / NVMe 1.3c
ControllerSamsung Elpis
DRAMLPDDR4
MemorySamsung 1xxL V-NAND TLC
Sequential Read7,000 MBps
Sequential Write5,100 MBps
Random Read - QD122,000 IOPS
Random Write - QD160,000 IOPS
Peak Random Read1,000,000 IOPS
Peak Random Write1,000,000 IOPS
SecurityAES 256-bit FDE; TCG Opal V2.0; IEEE1667
Endurance (TBW)1200 TB
Warranty5-Years
Part NumberMZ-V8P2T0BW

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Paul Alcorn is the Deputy Managing Editor for Tom's Hardware US. He writes news and reviews on CPUs, storage and enterprise hardware.