Micron"s Crucial P310 2280 variant is still on sale at its lowest ever price of just $202 (purchase link down below). The SSD also has a heatsink on top so you should not have to worry about high temperatures.
The one drawback of it is that it packs QLC NAND as opposed to TLC, and as such you get significantly lower drive endurance, which means this SSD is not the most appropriate one if you are looking to carry out heavy disk transfer tasks fairly often, like say constant game installations, deletions, and re-installations.
Although this drive does not have dedicated DRAM for metadata caching, which may hurt its random performance a bit, it does come equipped with HMB (host memory buffer) support, and thus it should not be any issue as long as you have more than 2 GB of system memory, out of which the P310 will access around 64 MB.
The technical specifications of the P310 2280 model are given below:
| Specification | Value |
|---|---|
| Interface/Protocol | PCIe Gen4 x4, NVMe 1.4 |
| Capacity | 4TB |
| NAND Type | Micron Advanced 3D NAND QLC |
| Sequential Read Speed | Up to 7,100 MB/s |
| Sequential Write Speed | Up to 6,000 MB/s |
| Random Read (4KB, QD32) | Up to 1,000,000 IOPS |
| Random Write (4KB, QD32) | Up to 1,200,000 IOPS |
| Endurance (TBW) | Up to 800 TBW |
| MTTF | 1.5 million hours |
| Operating Temperature | 0°C to 70°C |
| Hardware Encryption | AES 256-bit encryption, TCG Opal 2.0 compliant |
Get it at the link below:
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Crucial P310 4TB PCIe Gen4 2280 NVMe M.2 SSD with heatsink – with Acronis Offer, Internal Solid State Drive (PC) – CT4000P310SSD5-01: $201.99 (Sold and Shipped by Amazon US)
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