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Samsung’s 990 EVO Plus comes in a compact box with a clear image of the drive on the front. On the bottom right-hand side of the box, we find a sticker displaying the drive’s 2TB capacity. Also displayed is the drive's 7,250MB/s Sequential read speed.
The rear of the box has a multilingual information panel giving the web address for more detailed warranty information. Under this is a reminder that the drive has a 5-year limited warranty.
Samsung's 2TB SSD990 EVO Plus is built on a single-sided M.2 2280 format. The product sticker on the rear of the drive has a built-in copper layer to help get rid of some of the heat generated by the drive when working as does the nickel coating on the controller both working in conjunction with Samsung’s DTG (Dynamic Thermal Guard) algorithm.
Under the long Product label on the front of the drive sits Samsung's Piccolo controller and a single package of Samsung's 8th generation 236-Layer TLC NAND (V-NAND). Details about the Piccolo controller are rather scarce but what we do know is that it is a 4-channel DRAM-less design built on a 5nm process.
Samsung’s SSD management utility goes by the name of Magician and can be downloaded from Samsung’s website. Samsung continually updates Magician and the latest version (at the time of writing) is v8.2, Magician is a pretty comprehensive utility that allows you to do most of the maintenance jobs you may need to do with an SSD and lists them under two headings; Drive Management and Data Management.
Drive Management Provides drive information, a performance benchmark, diagnostic scans, performance optimisation and Over Provisioning.
Data Management Provides tools for secure erase, PSID revert, data encryption (the drive supports AES 256-bit full-disk encryption, TCG/Opal V2.0, and Encrypted Drive -IEEE1667 (MS eDrive ) and data migration.
