News 2TB Samsung 870 QVO SSD Hits New $179 Low

[Admin]

Samsung's QLC drive may not be M.2, but it'll give you more speed than your typical SATA drive.

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[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

I think the only reason you wouldn't count it as one of the best SSDs is because once the 70GB or so SLC cache is filled the write speed drops to 160MB/s until writes stop and the cache flushes, BUT as a home user the number of times you'd be in a situation where you'd write that much at one time AND be transferring data at a speed that exceeds 160MB/s is rare, that's faster than gigabit internet speeds.

But it's an SATA SSD, and tests show that in the real world there's very little no noticeable difference in real world use. Less than one second in game load time vs a 860 Evo, and fractions of seconds difference in non gaming applications. Professional and workstation yeah, go Evo or Pro, but for any home user, for $180, it's an unbeatable value at this time, especially as memory prices are set to rise over the near term.