This 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD is just £50 at Amazon UK

Kingston’s NV2 bucks the trend of recent SSD price increases.

The Kingston NV2 is the company’s budget PCIe 4.0 SSD of choice, with a range of potential sub-components that combine to produce up to 3500MB/s reads and 2800MB/s writes while using less power than PCIe 3.0 drives, thanks to fewer PCIe lanes being needed for the drive to achieve its speed goals.

The drive uses more expensive TLC flash memory, but isn’t equipped with a DRAM cache, so sustained performance falls down compared to similarly-fast models with DRAM. Instead, it uses Host Buffer Memory technology, which uses your computer’s RAM for lookup tables and other important SSD functions. This is a slightly less efficient setup, but it’s an improvement over non-HMB DRAM-less drives.

Overall, a reasonable choice that ranks among the better value PCIe 4.0 drives on the market. For moregaming SSD recommendations, check out our article of nearly the same name!