If this year's massive game installs are any indication it's time to invest in this $177 4TB SSD

pcgamer.com:

Lexar NM790 | 4TB | NVMe | PCIE 4.0 | 7,400MB/s read | 6,400MB/s write | $209.99$176.95 at Amazon (save $33.04)
This has swiftly proven itself one of the best ways to stuff 4TB inside your gaming PC. It's as fast as the fastest PCIe 4.0 drives yet rather cheap. With this Prime deal, it's even cheaper, and not a deal to be missed.

Just last week I published my review of the Lexar NM790 4TB. In it, I called this SSD proof of «how cheap SSDs have become over the past ten years,» and «truly mind-boggling.» That was last week, however, when this drive would've set you back around $200. Today, amidst Amazon's Big Deal Days event, it's just $177.

It does appear to be a great time to invest in such a seriously massive SSD, too. What with this year's biggest game releases not even all fitting on a 1TB SSD. That doesn't even include the major releases yet to come, such as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, which is sure to gobble up heaps of storage space in its gaping maw.

If you want to know why this drive is worth it over any other, and you don't want to read through my entire Lexar NM790 review, I'll breakdown why I like this drive for you:

✅ It's as fast as the best PCIe 4.0 drives on the market at 7,400MB/s read and 6,500MB/s write. That's despite it being a DRAM-less drive.

✅ Its high-layer NAND, YMTC's 232-layer TLC, means all four terabytes can be stuffed on one side of this SSD. That's often better for keeping a drive running cool in motherboards that don't offer an NVMe slot heatsink or only make contact to the SSD with a thermal pad on one side.

✅ It's cool and efficient. This drive doesn't really struggle with heat and even during my extended write tests kept a steady temperature.

✅ Four terabytes of storage makes for