At less than $0.05 per GB, this Prime Day SSD is the perfect way to bag NVMe speed for a HDD price
Team Group MP44L | 2 TB | NVMe | PCIe 4.0 | 4,800 MB/s read | 4,400 MB/s write | $122.99 $99.99 at Amazon (save $23)
It's far from being the fastest 2 TB SSD you can buy but it's certainly one of the cheapest. Every gigabyte of storage inside will cost you less than five cents. What a world we live in.
Price check: Newegg $99.99
When it comes to the world of SSDs, the ones that grab all the headlines tend to be the fastest or largest ones. This deal from Team Group is neither of those things but it's still a great deal, for one simple reason.
At a cent under $100 for 2 TB of NVMe storage, you're paying less than five cents for every gigabyte. I know it might seem like I'm laboring the point but that's a super low price for a solid state drive, especially one this size.
And it's not like there's el-cheapo hardware being used here, either. The NAND flash chips are TLC ones from Micron and the controller is an E21T model from Phison, so while it's not setting any speed records, you're pretty much guaranteed reliability and longevity.
There's no DRAM to boost performance but the important table that stores all the data locations on the drive is kept in the PC's system memory (called a Host Memory Buffer), helping to make sure that the drive's performance is consistent at all times.
And speaking of performance, while its peak read/write speeds of 4,800 and 4,400 MB/s are nothing to shout about, they're more than good enough for most scenarios—certainly for gaming, at the very least. Unless you're heavily into AI processing or high-resolution video editing, you're not going to miss out.
Perhaps the only thing that goes against the MP44L is the size of its SLC cache. To improve how quickly SSDs can write small bursts of data, most of them have a small amount of the NAND flash working in SLC (single-level cell) mode. This is the fastest mode of operation but also provides the least amount of storage.
The MP44L's SLC cache is a lot smaller than the best gaming SSDs
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