That’s one cheap drive.
Mum, get the camera! It’s finally happened - a 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD is selling for less than £50. The winner of this impromptu contest is Kingston’s NV2, an expectedly budget drive that still manages to deliver some fairly impressive performance according to independent reviews. To squeak in under the £50 mark, you’ll need to use codeJAN10at the checkout at Ebay.
This drive has come up a few times on various deals aggregators, and for a drive that I’ve not personally tested I’m always surprised how positive the reviews are, from commmenters and reviwers alike.
As you might expect for a drive of this price, this is a QLC drive without a DRAM cache, so sustained performance and longevity aren’t strong points - I definitely wouldn’t recommend this drive for video production, for instance, or other heavy content creation tasks. However, for gaming, media or even as an OS drive on a lower-tier machine, it should do quite well.
If you’d prefer a drive that’s a little more… fixed..? - then you’ll perhaps prefer one ofour evergreen SSD recommendations, which includes drives like the WD Blue SN570 or Crucial P3 Plus which also tend to feature regularly in deals posts.
