# Samsung drops new drive the 990 Pro **URL:** \ **Category:** Framework Laptop 13\ **Created:** [November 3, 2022, 3:24pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/samsung-drops-new-drive-the-990-pro/24341 "2022-11-03T15:24:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gunner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/gunner/32/12301_2.png) [@Gunner](https://community.frame.work/u/Gunner)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2022, 3:24pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/samsung-drops-new-drive-the-990-pro/24341/1 "2022-11-03T15:24:17Z")
I didn’t see that anyone posted about the new Samsung drive that dropped a few days ago. My new Framework is currently shipping to me and wanted to run the 980 Pro, When I went to buy from Samsung direct I saw the new 990 was out for preorder. I I ordered it. Sadly it won’t be here until late in the month, so I won’t be able to use my brand new 1280P until later, unless I get my hands on another drive before 990 arrives. Which may happen, I may borrow a older nvme in the meantime. I didn’t get it for the faster speed, It’s also supposed to have less power usage. We will see. Specs page > **[Samsung 990 PRO PCIe 4.0 SSD | Samsung Semiconductor Global](https://semiconductor.samsung.com/consumer-storage/internal-ssd/990-pro/)** > > Samsung 990 PRO NVMe M.2 SSD 1/2TB maintains max speed of PCIe® 4.0 with optimal power efficiency. Fly high in gameplay on PS5 and DirectStorage PC games. Order page [https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/solid-state-drives/990-pro-pcie-4-0-nvme-ssd-2tb-mz-v9p2t0b-am/](https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/solid-state-drives/990-pro-pcie-4-0-nvme-ssd-2tb-mz-v9p2t0b-am/) ---
**Author:** ![Second\_Coming](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/second_coming/32/29330_2.png) [@Second\_Coming](https://community.frame.work/u/Second_Coming)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2022, 3:38pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/samsung-drops-new-drive-the-990-pro/24341/2 "2022-11-03T15:38:26Z")
If you care about battery runtime on the go…this isn’t the upgrade. (P41 is still better) For desktop replacement use cases, this is awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Gunner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/gunner/32/12301_2.png) [@Gunner](https://community.frame.work/u/Gunner)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2022, 3:58pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/samsung-drops-new-drive-the-990-pro/24341/3 "2022-11-03T15:58:38Z")
> [@Second\_Coming](#): > > If you care about battery runtime on the go…this isn’t the upgrade. (P41 is still better) > > For desktop replacement use cases, this is awesome. Thanks @Second_Coming. I’m not a heavy tech user and a lot of this is new to me. I don’t really care a lot about battery usage as I’m sure I’ll be on power most of the time or at the very least very close to a power. But I did think it would help. I do like Samsung products and that is why I wanted to go with them, and I get a military discount. That helps. 😄 So I guess I’ll just get the newest Samsung drive to have the newest drive. Seem for me it’s always the other way around. As soon as I buy the latest and greatest, it’s replace a few days later. LOL ---
**Author:** ![Anachron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@Anachron](https://community.frame.work/u/Anachron)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2023, 9:26pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/samsung-drops-new-drive-the-990-pro/24341/4 "2023-01-26T21:26:13Z")
Has anybody gotten the drive yet? It claims to be up to 50% more energy efficient than the 980, which sounds really good. ---
**Author:** ![Gunner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/gunner/32/12301_2.png) [@Gunner](https://community.frame.work/u/Gunner)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2023, 1:59pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/samsung-drops-new-drive-the-990-pro/24341/5 "2023-01-27T13:59:01Z")
I have this drive. I’ve had it running for about a month now. But I honestly don’t know how to measure it’s efficiency. I was running another drive for a few weeks while waiting on this one. My daily use is usually plugged in and I haven’t done any testing to know if there is a difference. I also don’t know even how to test this. ---
**Author:** ![Anachron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@Anachron](https://community.frame.work/u/Anachron)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2023, 2:01pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/samsung-drops-new-drive-the-990-pro/24341/6 "2023-01-27T14:01:38Z")
So just to clarify: You are not using any `acpi`, `aspm` or `nvme`-kernel-bootargs in order to use the drive? This drive does not automatically disconnect every once in a while and remount as read-only? ---
**Author:** ![Gunner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/gunner/32/12301_2.png) [@Gunner](https://community.frame.work/u/Gunner)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2023, 2:10pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/samsung-drops-new-drive-the-990-pro/24341/7 "2023-01-27T14:10:47Z")
Welp, I don’t know what most of that means. 😆 so no, I’m not. I’m running Win11 and drivers. I installed the drive, installed windows and it just works. I’ve had no issues so far. Samsung Magician works fine and reports everything is ok. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/uploads/framework3/original/2X/0/0a06e7743c19f09c965f17f8c94460b72db5e72f.png) ---
**Author:** ![GhostLegion](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/ghostlegion/32/3356_2.png) [@GhostLegion](https://community.frame.work/u/GhostLegion)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 7:47am UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/samsung-drops-new-drive-the-990-pro/24341/8 "2023-01-30T07:47:47Z")
> **[Samsung 990 Pro users are reporting rapid health loss](https://www.techspot.com/news/97357-samsung-990-pro-users-reporting-rapid-health-loss.html)** > > Users have reported faster-than-normal health degradation in Samsung 990 Pro SSDs for about a month. No one seems to have determined the cause, which affects all drive... Any comment @Gunner? ---
**Author:** ![Gunner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/gunner/32/12301_2.png) [@Gunner](https://community.frame.work/u/Gunner)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 2:26pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/samsung-drops-new-drive-the-990-pro/24341/9 "2023-01-30T14:26:12Z")
> [@GhostLegion](#): > > Any comment @Gunner? Hmm, thanks for the heads up, I’ll keep an eye on it. The screen shot above was taken just before I posted. I looked all through magician and couldn’t find a % usage anywhere. if I’m missing where it’s at let me know. I downloaded the Crystal Disc info and here is what I got. It’s a fresh download so I don’t know if that skews anything but I looks like it tracks pretty well to my usage. I’m not a hard user and rarely shut down my PC. When I’m done for the day I put my computer into hibernate so I don’t have to reload everything the next day. Not sure if any of this info help. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/uploads/framework3/original/2X/9/99e7faba3027bed38e78e5b2a82c2faf313b4c3c.png) ---
**Author:** ![Anachron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@Anachron](https://community.frame.work/u/Anachron)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2023, 1:38pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/samsung-drops-new-drive-the-990-pro/24341/10 "2023-02-03T13:38:17Z")
@Gunner how is it going? I’ve ordered a `990 Pro` myself, because the `WD SN770 1TB` one still disconnects every once in a while and I believe my `NVME` drive to be faulty. ---
**Author:** ![Usernames](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/usernames/32/40546_2.png) [@Usernames](https://community.frame.work/u/Usernames)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 8:07am UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/samsung-drops-new-drive-the-990-pro/24341/11 "2023-02-07T08:07:25Z")
There is a yet to be fixed firmware issue with the 990 Pro where the drive health is going down fast. > **[Samsung Confirms 990 Pro SSD Firmware Fix Coming Soon](https://www.tomshardware.com/news/samsung-990-pro-ssd-firmware-fix)** > > A Samsung forum moderator indicates that a firmware fix for the 990 Pro should arrive later in February. I’m not sure if there is real damage going on or misreporting of drive health but I would avoid using one till a fix is released and validated. ---
**Author:** ![Anachron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@Anachron](https://community.frame.work/u/Anachron)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 11:25am UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/samsung-drops-new-drive-the-990-pro/24341/12 "2023-02-07T11:25:55Z")
@Usernames did you actually check the comment 3 posts above yours? It seems like while it affects many drives, not all are and especially the 2TB variants are more affected than the 1TB (I got the 1TB one). Since I’m running one myself right now and smartctl returns: ```auto smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-6.1.9_1] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Number: Samsung SSD 990 PRO 1TB Firmware Version: 0B2QJXD7 PCI Vendor/Subsystem ID: 0x144d IEEE OUI Identifier: 0x002538 Total NVM Capacity: 1.000.204.886.016 [1,00 TB] Unallocated NVM Capacity: 0 Controller ID: 1 NVMe Version: 2.0 Number of Namespaces: 1 Namespace 1 Size/Capacity: 1.000.204.886.016 [1,00 TB] Namespace 1 Utilization: 946.511.945.728 [946 GB] Namespace 1 Formatted LBA Size: 512 Namespace 1 IEEE EUI-64: 002538 4a2140e122 Local Time is: Tue Feb 7 12:25:26 2023 CET Firmware Updates (0x16): 3 Slots, no Reset required Optional Admin Commands (0x0017): Security Format Frmw_DL Self_Test Optional NVM Commands (0x0055): Comp DS_Mngmt Sav/Sel_Feat Timestmp Log Page Attributes (0x2f): S/H_per_NS Cmd_Eff_Lg Ext_Get_Lg Telmtry_Lg *Other* Maximum Data Transfer Size: 512 Pages Warning Comp. Temp. Threshold: 82 Celsius Critical Comp. Temp. Threshold: 85 Celsius Supported Power States St Op Max Active Idle RL RT WL WT Ent_Lat Ex_Lat 0 + 9.39W - - 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 + 9.39W - - 1 1 1 1 0 200 2 + 9.39W - - 2 2 2 2 0 1000 3 - 0.0400W - - 3 3 3 3 2000 1200 4 - 0.0050W - - 4 4 4 4 500 9500 Supported LBA Sizes (NSID 0x1) Id Fmt Data Metadt Rel_Perf 0 + 512 0 0 === START OF SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02) Critical Warning: 0x00 Temperature: 42 Celsius Available Spare: 100% Available Spare Threshold: 10% Percentage Used: 0% Data Units Read: 24.341 [12,4 GB] Data Units Written: 2.160.528 [1,10 TB] Host Read Commands: 2.309.825 Host Write Commands: 8.593.815 Controller Busy Time: 11 Power Cycles: 29 Power On Hours: 5 Unsafe Shutdowns: 12 Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0 Error Information Log Entries: 0 Warning Comp. Temperature Time: 0 Critical Comp. Temperature Time: 0 Temperature Sensor 1: 42 Celsius Temperature Sensor 2: 50 Celsius Error Information (NVMe Log 0x01, 16 of 64 entries) No Errors Logged ``` ---
**Author:** ![Gunner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/gunner/32/12301_2.png) [@Gunner](https://community.frame.work/u/Gunner)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 12:59pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/samsung-drops-new-drive-the-990-pro/24341/13 "2023-02-07T12:59:51Z")
@Usernames While I would agree that I would hold off on buying one until they get it figured out, it would be the right move. If you don’t own one yet why are you so worried. Just wait until they figure it out or go buy another drive. I preordered mine and of course none of this was going on. I’m stuck with what I have and I’m not gong to throw it away and get a new drive because of internet reports. If it fails early it fails, I’ll get another drive. It’s damn near the cheapest part of your whole computer, thought still top price for a NVME. But as I mentioned above, I have the 2TB model and I’m not see anything bad with my drive. It just works and the drive is still at 100% health per Crystal disk. Samsung Magician just updated, I haven’t looked at the notes to see what the update was but I just did it yesterday. Magician shows my drive health is good. Magician does not give a %, at least not that I have found. ---
**Author:** ![Gunner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/gunner/32/12301_2.png) [@Gunner](https://community.frame.work/u/Gunner)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 1:42pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/samsung-drops-new-drive-the-990-pro/24341/14 "2023-02-07T13:42:29Z")
Here are my up to date test results. ![Screenshot 2023-02-07 082123 - Magician Dia scan](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/uploads/framework3/original/2X/3/3f023c0a72efbf28acc6802f2482ac71c1394f78.png) ![Screenshot 2023-02-07 082435 Magician Bench](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/uploads/framework3/original/2X/4/4668ce675d43285b8cce7228d0de404ffadf6c6d.png) ![Screenshot 2023-02-07 082554 Magician Status](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/uploads/framework3/original/2X/1/1fb7e464879775e70426417f2fed5709923e7497.png) ![Screenshot 2023-02-07 083440 CrystalDisk](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/uploads/framework3/original/2X/d/d1b5cf0f14a63dfc9e8576e86d48ba31da1fd840.png) ---
**Author:** ![Usernames](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/usernames/32/40546_2.png) [@Usernames](https://community.frame.work/u/Usernames)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 8:35am UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/samsung-drops-new-drive-the-990-pro/24341/15 "2023-02-08T08:35:20Z")
> [@Anachron](#): > > @Usernames did you actually check the comment 3 posts above yours? Yeah I overlooked that. > [@Gunner](#): > > If you don’t own one yet why are you so worried. Not worried, just trying to spread useful info. ---
**Author:** ![wiggmpk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/wiggmpk/32/20683_2.png) [@wiggmpk](https://community.frame.work/u/wiggmpk)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 6:46pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/samsung-drops-new-drive-the-990-pro/24341/16 "2023-02-08T18:46:32Z")
I have the 2TB 990 Pro, only been running it a couple of weeks so YMMV > smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86\_64-linux-5.15.0-58-generic] (local build) > Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, [www.smartmontools.org](http://www.smartmontools.org) > > === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === > Model Number: Samsung SSD 990 PRO 2TB > Serial Number: \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* > Firmware Version: 0B2QJXD7 > PCI Vendor/Subsystem ID: 0x144d > IEEE OUI Identifier: 0x002538 > Total NVM Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 [2.00 TB] > Unallocated NVM Capacity: 0 > Controller ID: 1 > NVMe Version: 2.0 > Number of Namespaces: 1 > Namespace 1 Size/Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 [2.00 TB] > Namespace 1 Utilization: 120,555,687,936 [120 GB] > Namespace 1 Formatted LBA Size: 512 > Namespace 1 IEEE EUI-64: 002538 4c21406bd4 > Local Time is: Wed Feb 8 13:31:40 2023 EST > Firmware Updates (0x16): 3 Slots, no Reset required > Optional Admin Commands (0x0017): Security Format Frmw\_DL Self\_Test > Optional NVM Commands (0x0055): Comp DS\_Mngmt Sav/Sel\_Feat Timestmp > Log Page Attributes (0x2f): S/H\_per\_NS Cmd\_Eff\_Lg Ext\_Get\_Lg Telmtry\_Lg _Other_ > Maximum Data Transfer Size: 512 Pages > Warning Comp. Temp. Threshold: 82 Celsius > Critical Comp. Temp. Threshold: 85 Celsius > > Supported Power States > St Op Max Active Idle RL RT WL WT Ent\_Lat Ex\_Lat > 0 + 9.39W - - 0 0 0 0 0 0 > 1 + 9.39W - - 1 1 1 1 0 200 > 2 + 9.39W - - 2 2 2 2 0 1000 > 3 - 0.0400W - - 3 3 3 3 2000 1200 > 4 - 0.0050W - - 4 4 4 4 500 9500 > > Supported LBA Sizes (NSID 0x1) > Id Fmt Data Metadt Rel\_Perf > 0 + 512 0 0 > > === START OF SMART DATA SECTION === > SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED > > SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02) > Critical Warning: 0x00 > Temperature: 34 Celsius > Available Spare: 100% > Available Spare Threshold: 10% > Percentage Used: 0% > Data Units Read: 180,327 [92.3 GB] > Data Units Written: 572,972 [293 GB] > Host Read Commands: 1,798,994 > Host Write Commands: 5,953,179 > Controller Busy Time: 66 > Power Cycles: 16 > Power On Hours: 8 > Unsafe Shutdowns: 1 > Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0 > Error Information Log Entries: 0 > Warning Comp. Temperature Time: 0 > Critical Comp. Temperature Time: 0 > Temperature Sensor 1: 34 Celsius > Temperature Sensor 2: 34 Celsius > > Error Information (NVMe Log 0x01, 16 of 64 entries) > No Errors Logged ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_Kahn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Andrew\_Kahn](https://community.frame.work/u/Andrew_Kahn)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2023, 4:39pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/samsung-drops-new-drive-the-990-pro/24341/17 "2023-03-22T16:39:17Z")
People suggested this SSD isn’t great on battery life. Now that it’s been a few months - How is it? ---
**Author:** ![Gunner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/gunner/32/12301_2.png) [@Gunner](https://community.frame.work/u/Gunner)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2023, 4:59pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/samsung-drops-new-drive-the-990-pro/24341/18 "2023-03-22T16:59:56Z")
> [@Andrew\_Kahn](#): > > People suggested this SSD isn’t great on battery life. Now that it’s been a few months - How is it? I don’t think I can Farley answer this, I run almost exclusive wired. ---
**Author:** ![wiggmpk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/wiggmpk/32/20683_2.png) [@wiggmpk](https://community.frame.work/u/wiggmpk)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2023, 5:48pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/samsung-drops-new-drive-the-990-pro/24341/19 "2023-03-22T17:48:52Z")
I have no baseline to compare the energy consumption to, no help there. All I can offer is an update/snapshot of my usage from smartmontools, if anyone is still gun-shy about picking up the 990P > === START OF SMART DATA SECTION === > SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED > > SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02) > Critical Warning: 0x00 > Temperature: 39 Celsius > Available Spare: 100% > Available Spare Threshold: 10% > Percentage Used: 0% > Data Units Read: 9,437,853 [4.83 TB] > Data Units Written: 10,887,623 [5.57 TB] > Host Read Commands: 70,576,872 > Host Write Commands: 43,921,657 > Controller Busy Time: 541 > Power Cycles: 93 > Power On Hours: 58 > Unsafe Shutdowns: 11 > Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0 > Error Information Log Entries: 0 > Warning Comp. Temperature Time: 0 > Critical Comp. Temperature Time: 0 > Temperature Sensor 1: 39 Celsius > Temperature Sensor 2: 43 Celsius > > Error Information (NVMe Log 0x01, 16 of 64 entries) > No Errors Logged Moderate virtual machine use ---
**Author:** ![Lamy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Lamy](https://community.frame.work/u/Lamy)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2023, 10:05pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/samsung-drops-new-drive-the-990-pro/24341/20 "2023-04-09T22:05:51Z")
`smartctl` Information about WD SN770 1 TB ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/uploads/framework3/original/2X/8/820d6f241c27aa83eb68350693c88cf4b3b33ea6.png) while comparing with data mentioned from aboe for Samsung 990 pro [Next page](https://community.frame.work/t/samsung-drops-new-drive-the-990-pro/24341.md?page=2)