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Time for an NVMe upgrade? Samsung’s 1TB 980 SSD is just £89 today, 23% offThe lowest price we’ve seen on Samsung’s best value NVMe SSD
The lowest price we’ve seen on Samsung’s best value NVMe SSD
Get the Samsung 980 NVMe SSD for £89.54 (£27 off)
It was only recently that 1TB NVMe SSDs broke under the £100 barrier, so it’s a treat to see one £10 below that threshold while still being capable of 3500MB/s read speeds and 3300MB/s write speeds - much faster sequential speeds than the first crop of budget NVMe SSDs which were in the 2000-2400MB/s range.
Katharine liked theSamsung 980 when she tested it earlier this year, pointing out that it very much did well in terms of performance, but it was priced a little bit too high to strongly recommend. Now that the price has trended downwards, including today’s £27 reduction, the Samsung 980 has become one of the cheapest NVMe SSDs available while holding a performance lead against the few drives that have been sold at a lower price.
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To install this drive, you’ll need a motherboard or laptop with an NVMe-capable M.2 slot (or you can make use of a PCIe to M.2 adapter -I use this £7 one). This is only a PCIe 3.0 drive, so you don’t need to have a fancy AMD or Intel motherboard that supports PCIe 4.0 speeds to get the full use out of the 980 SSD. (Of course, PCIe 4.0 is also backwards compatible, so you can use this PCIe 3.0 drive in those faster slots without issue!)
I reckon£89 is a great pricefor an NVMe SSD of this calibre, so do consider it if you’re in the market for a little extra storage, whether that’s augmenting your existing drive, replacing it or for a new PC altogether.
