This is not the greatest SSD deal ever offered. I just want to be up front about that. But considering the context—everything sucks—it’s really not that bad. I mean, it is bad, but it’s not that bad compared to the rest.
I’ve been looking through our cheap SSD deals page and it doesn’t make for pleasant reading. Compared to this time last year, we’re looking at prices that are two or three times in excess for the same, or slower, storage.
That said, an SSD is something you might be in need of, and you can’t just wait around for a couple of years hoping all this blows over. If you fall into that bucket, this Biwin Opal NV7400 is the best value around that I could find—and it doesn’t suck.
It’s currently $250 on Amazon, which works out to around $0.12/GB. That’s comparatively pretty low right now, and while a long way away from the six cent or five cent per gigabyte drives of yesteryear, it is actually a speedy drive worth its salt.
Rated to 7,400 MB/s seq. read and 6,500 MB/s seq. write, the NV7400 is up there with many other PCIe 4.0 drives in sitting just below the theoretical limit of the four-lane PCIe 4.0 connection. It uses the Maxiotek MAP1602A Falcon Lite Gen4 controller alongside either Micron or YMTC 232-layer TLC NAND.
In our NV7400 review, we note that it’s pretty close to those advertised speeds.
“If you’re looking for the best value, longest-lasting SSD right now and don’t mind the average performance, then it has no equal,” says our Zak Storey in the review. And that’s as true then, when this drive cost a mere $120 for 2 TB, as it is now at double that.
With Prime Day coming up, I’m hoping to see more movement across SSDs. Even if it’s only a fraction of a saving on the ludicrous increase we’ve seen in recent months. Stay tuned for that. We’re logging everything we find on our Prime Day SSD deals page.
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