That’s a great price for one of the most performant PCIe 3.0 drives on the market, offering great sequential and random performance and rock-solid reliability.
Get the Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1TB NVMe SSD for £109.98 (was £140)
When Katharine reviewed the 970 Evo Plus in those heady pre-pandemic times, she saw 3243MB/s sequential read speeds and 3102MB/s sequential write speeds once Samsung’s ‘Magician’ software had been installed. In my own testing, the 970 Evo Plus appeared to be more or less equivalent to the earlier 970 Evo, beating it in some tests and falling behind in others. Later PCIe 4.0 and even 3.0 drives like the 970 Pro have the 970 Evo Plus beat, but for the money it’s pretty outrageous performance - and without the common pitfalls of budget NVMe drives, like the use of QLC NAND over faster TLC or the ommission of a DRAM cache. The 970 Evo Plus has it where it counts. So, there you have it. I think the 970 Evo Plus is definitely worth considering at this reduced price, but I’d be tempted to go for a cheaper drive if I was going to use it for game storage only. What do you think? Let me know in the comments below!
