Nab this huge 4TB NM790 SSD for just £203 from Amazon
A capacious SSD for less.
Lexar's 4TB NM790 is a fantastic gaming SSD, and one I personally use in my own PC build. I picked it because of its combination of brilliant performance and affordability which means it has remained a sensible choice in the face of SSD prices being up and down in recent times.
At the moment, this 4TB non-heatsink version is £204 thanks to a handy discount than takes £36 off its previous £240 list price. You can soon add a heatsink for £8 and make this drive fully PS5-proof for less than the £260 Amazon is asking for the heatsink version of this drive.
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Lexar NM790 4TB SSD (Up to 7100MB/s, M2 2280)Now £203.99 (was £239.99) |
The NM790 is one of the best gaming SSDs money can buy, and certainly one of the quickest in terms of its raw speed. Its sequential reads of up to 7400MB/s and sequential writes of up to 6500MB/s make it a snappier performer for accessing files, while its random speeds are perhaps even more impressive. Lexar rates it of up to 1.0M IOPS for both reads and writes, meaning its load times when you're getting into games and applications should be incredibly quick. The only way to go faster is for a PCIe 5.0 drive, although they do still cost a naffing fortune by comparison.
For PC users, the fact it doesn't have a DRAM cache and instead opts for HMB isn't a big issue for gaming and general use, and you're only likely to run against it if you're using this drive for rather intense workloads such as sustained video capture, or even scientific computing. Otherwise, this is quite simply a very quick PCIe 4.0 drive with a fair bit of capacity that makes for a better value pick than similarly speedy options from WD or Samsung.
The NM790 can also be chucked into a PS5, with speeds that smash Sony's internal requirements, as well as with a capacity that boost your storage by a very large amount, whether you're using an OG PS5 or the newer Slim model with its bigger internal SSD.
If you're after a large and speedy SSD for either PC or PS5 use that isn't going to break the bank, this 4TB Lexar NM790 deal from Amazon is not to be missed.