Get the 2TB Samsung 970 Evo Plus for £163.53 (was £226)
The Samsung 970 Evo Plus is capable of more or less maxing out its PCIe 3.0 connection, delivering up to 3500MB/s reads and 3300MB/s writes. It’s rare to see write speeds almost as fast as the read speeds, and random performance is excellent for a PCIe 3.0 drive too. Some PCIe 4.0 drives eclipse the 970 Evo Plus, but even the cheapest of these cost well in excess of £300! So paying £163 for one of the fastest PCIe 3.0 drives is a terrific bargain.
We actually run these drives over at Digital Foundry in our CPU and GPU test systems, and the 2TB capacity is just enough to keep every game that we use for testing installed plus our Windows 10 installation and a little free space for piece of mind. It’s amazing how much youj can cram into a drive of this size, and with the extremely quick sequential read and write speeds you’re never left waiting for long when it comes to file transfers. These NVMe drives are particularly great for content creators or anyone else that needs to deal with large files, as anyone copying 4K footage on a SATA-based SSD that’s seven times slower can tell you.
So: a great price for one of the best-reviewed drives, from a company - Samsung - that more or less sets the standard for the rest of the SSD industry.
I think that’s all for now, so thanks for joining me and we’ll see you again tomorrow for the last two deals posts of this week. Until then, keep your stick on the ice!
