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This 4TB Lexar NM790 PCIe 4.0 SSD is down to £170.97 with an Ebay 10% off codeOur best cheap PCIe 4.0 SSD!
Our best cheap PCIe 4.0 SSD!
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun
Lexar has been making flash storage since 1996 - in fact, their ‘JumpDrive’ USB sticks were synonymous with the format for a decade or more - but over the past few years they’ve switched to producing high-end NVMe SSDs, including our currentbest cheap PCIe 4.0 SSD pick: the Lexar NM790.
Get the Lexar NM790 4TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD for £170.97 (was £190)
This drive is one that we’ve recommended quite a few times in the past, so let’s let hardware big egg James do the honours this time around. He calls the NM790 “indeed affordable”, while praising it for “delivering performance close to that of high-end PCIe 4.0 models like the WD Black SN850X”. That’s our top PCIe 4.0 pick overall, and for context it costs a mighty £310 in its 4TB incarnation!
The NM790 is rated for sequential speeds of 7400MB/s and 6900MB/s for reads and writes respectively, while random I/O performance is also impressive at 1.0M IOPS reads and 0.9M IOPS writes. That’s among the very fastest speeds we’ve seen in this category, only really coming behind the very best drives like the aforementioned SN 850x or Samsung’s 990 Pro.
Overall then, the NM790 is an awesome value in this size and capacity, and I’m actually quite tempted to pick one up given that I paid more than this for a 4TB SATA drive just a year or so ago. Still, withAmazon Prime Day 2: Electric Boogalooon the Horizon, perhaps it’s better to wait to see ifeven crazierdeals are unfurled..?
