NVMe SSDs are pretty sweet in pricing nowadays. You can grab the Samsung 990 EVO Plus 4TB for just $235, its lowest ever price. And in case your budget is tight, the Crucial P310 2280 1TB variant is a great option too, for just $60.
However, if you are willing to spend $125, check out Crucial"s T500, which is available for that price for the heatsink model, the lowest it has been in over a year (purchase link down below). Interestingly, right now, the T500 non-heatsink variant is also available for the same price, so essentially you are getting a free heat-spreader at this moment.
The T500 promises speeds of 7400 MB/s and 7000 MB/s in terms of sequential reads and sequential writes. In terms of random throughputs, the T500 claims reads of 1180K IOPS (input output operations per second) and writes of 1440K IOPS. These high random speeds are thanks to the Phison PS5025-E25 controller that packs 2GB LPDDR4-4266 DRAM cache. For those wondering, this is a buffer cache that is meant to improve write caching and random access times with quicker metadata look-ups.
The Crucial B500 features Micron B58R FortisFlash 232-layer TLC (triple-level cell) NAND flash memory with an endurance rating of 1200 TBW (terabytes written).
Get the Crucial T500 with heatsink at the link below:
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Crucial T500 2TB M.2 2280 Internal Gaming SSD with Heatsink, PlayStation 5 Compatible + 1mo Adobe CC All Apps- CT2000T500SSD5: $124.99 (Sold and Shipped by Amazon US)
If you"re looking for another 2TB NVMe SSD option, the SK hynix Platinum P41 is also a good deal at the moment. Check it out in this article.
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