The Lexar NM790 enjoys immense popularity, thanks to its competitive pricing and exceptional performance. Now, there's an additional variant equipped with a heatsink. Our review's thermal tests confirm its excellent performance—no thermal throttling, even under heavy loads.
Designed with the Valve Steam Deck and similar handheld devices in mind, the WD Black SN770M 2 TB SSD provides generous storage for expanding gaming libraries. Under the hood we found TLC NAND flash, which is much faster than the QLC offered by the competition.
At just $205 for the 4 TB model in our review, the Addlink A93 SSD is a fantastic offer. Its standout feature is the inclusion of a large heatsink, allowing seamless integration with the Sony PlayStation 5, providing gamers with a cost-effective storage expansion solution.
The Lexar NM790 2 TB offers fantastic performance at outstanding pricing. The 2 TB model sells for just $110, which makes it the most affordable high-end SSD available. Real-life performance results are even better than the 4 TB version, which helps make up ground against the PCIe 5.0 competition.
The Lexar NM710 comes at outstanding pricing of just $47 for the 1 TB model. Testing in our review confirms, that this SSD can deliver good performance that is able to compete with other popular midrange SSDs like the Samsung 970 EVO Plus and Crucial P5 Plus.
The Neo Forza NFP495 is available at an astonishingly low cost of only $175 for the 4 TB model, and it's the first SSD we've reviewed that utilizes the new TenaFE TC2201 controller. Price/performance is topping our charts and real-life numbers are really good, too.
The Lexar NM790 is one of the fastest SSDs we've ever tested, being able to match the Samsung 990 Pro. It is still priced very competitively, at just $210 for the 4 TB version. Not long ago that only got you 2 TB. Thanks to a highly optimized controller design, the NM790 runs very efficiently and doesn't put out a ton of heat.
Samsung 990 Pro is the company's flagship M.2 NVMe SSD. Compared to the 980 Pro, it comes with an improved controller and more modern flash. Our review confirms: this is the fastest PCI-Express 4.0 drive you can buy right now, beating the competition from WD, Phison and Solidigm.
The Netac NV7000-T is available at unbelievable pricing of $80 for 2 TB. It still is one of the fastest SSD's we've ever tested, matching WD Black SN850, Samsung 980 Pro and Phison E18 drives. Netac even includes an optional heatsink with their solid-state-drive.
Western Digital's new WD Blue SN580 is the best budget M.2 SSD drive out there. Despite its impressive price point of $45 it comes with fantastic performance that easily matches most high-end drives. Compared to the SN570, the interface has been upgraded to PCIe 4.0, and the SLC cache is now more than 25x as big.
The Lexar NM800 Pro is a high-end SSD that plays in the same league as Samsung 980 Pro and WD Black SN850. It comes with an excellent heatsink that ensures there's no thermal throttling, no matter what you throw at the drive. Pricing is highly competitive too, only $130 for 2 TB.
The Acer Predator GM7 uses Maxio's new MAP1602A controller paired with YMTC 128-Layer TLC at an aggressive price point of only $66 for the tested 1 TB version. Our review confirms, this new drive is able to match the performance of famous drives like Samsung 980 Pro and WD Black SN850.
The Acer Predator GM7000 is finally available in a 4 TB version. In our review we thoroughly test this M.2 NVMe drive that's built using the Innogrit IG5236 controller paired with Micron's 176-layer 3D TLC NAND. While $450 for the 4 TB version isn't exactly cheap, it's much more affordable than similar-sized drives from Kingston and Corsair.
The Kingston Fury Renegade has been upgraded with a heatsink. Thanks to its solid metal construction, the heatsink can absorb a lot of heat and reduce temperatures considerably. Thermal testing in our review reveals that there is no thermal throttling, even when the drive is hit with hundreds of GB of incoming writes.
The Solidigm P44 Pro is the company's new PCIe 4.0 flagship M.2 NVMe SSD. It is built using the blazing fast Hynix ACNS075 controller paired with 176-layer 3D TLC NAND. In our review we saw impressive performance numbers, making the P44 Pro the fastest SSD we ever tested.
The Kingston NV2 is a huge improvement over the NV1. It comes at similar pricing but is significantly faster. Thanks to the new Phison E21 controller, the drive offers the highly popular PCIe 4.0 capability at only $80 for the 1 TB version, making it a great choice for any cost-optimized system.
The SK Hynix P41 offers amazing performance thanks to a new PCI-Express 4.0 compatible controller. In our Hynix Platinum P41 review we find that this drive is faster than Samsung 980 Pro and WD Black SN850. Thanks to an energy efficient design, there is no thermal throttling, even without heatsink.
Priced at just $105 for the 1 TB variant, the HP FX900 1 TB is one of the most affordable PCI-Express 4.0 SSDs. It's not only affordable, but also runs very fast, beating every single PCIe 3.0 drive we've ever tested. A preinstalled heatsink is included, too—there's no thermal throttling at all.
With the M480 Play, MSI upgrades its SSD offerings to use the latest and greatest 176-layer 3D TLC flash from Micron. What MSI also improved is the heatsink, which is now fully compatible with the Sony PlayStation 5 and looks fantastic, thanks to a great mix of colors and a matte surface structure.
The Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus 4 TB offers tons of capacity for all your games, applications, and files. Thanks to the combination of Phison E18 controller and Micron B47R 176-layer TLC NAND, it's also able to match the WD Black SN850, which is the fastest SSD we ever reviewed.
The competitively priced Western Digital WD Black SN770 achieves impressive performance results that match the more expensive Samsung 980 Pro, WD Black SN850, and Kingston KC3000. It seems WD has found a solution to overcome the limitations of DRAM-less designs—very impressive.
Priced at $130 for 1 TB, the Silicon Power XS70 is one of the most affordable PCIe 4.0 SSDs. It still offers outstanding performance because of the Phison E18 controller and Micron 176-layer TLC NAND combination. An excellent heatsink is preinstalled, too. The drive never reaches its thermal throttle point.
Priced at $130, the Neo Forza NFP455 1 TB is one of the most affordable PCI-Express 4.0 drives. It uses the Innogrit IG5236 controller paired with 128-layer YMTC TLC flash, and 1 GB of DRAM cache is included, too. In our review, we saw excellent performance that's very similar to the Samsung 980 Pro and WD Black SN850.
The Corsair MP600 Pro LPX is optimized for gaming on Sony PlayStation 5 and the PC. In our review's real-world game load tests we saw a clear lead in load times compared to other flagship SSDs like the Samsung 980 Pro and WD Black NVMe. Thanks to the preinstalled heatsink there's no thermal throttling either.
At just $120 for 1 TB, the ADATA XPG Atom 50 is one of the most affordable PCIe 4.0 M.2 NVMe SSDs out there. In our review, we found that it still offers incredible performance that rivals the Samsung 980 Pro and WD Black SN850 at much better pricing. Thermals are great, too, as there's no throttling, no matter what you throw at it.
