With about a £10 cost premium over the outgoing SN550 (at time of writing), the SN570 is the best value option, although I wouldn't rule out the SN550 if it's been steeply discounted, or if you want a 2TB size - right now, the SN570 tops out at 1TB. Note that the SN570 uses TLC memory rather than cheaper QLC, which allows WD to offer a five year warranty - nice. Write speeds are up too, from 1950MB/s to 3000MB/s, but be aware that the smaller drives have correspondingly lower write speeds (a common SSD phenomenon). The new model costs slightly more, but offers significantly faster sequential speeds, moving from 2400MB/s reads to 3500MB/s reads - a pretty tasty improvement. The WD Blue SN570 is our new best budget SSD pick, replacing the older WD Blue SN550. Watch on YouTube Watch the latest DF Weekly, where Digital Foundry staff discuss the hottest gaming technology news.īest cheap NVMe SSD: WD Blue SN570 Type: M.2 NVMe SSD | Capacities: 250GB, 500GB, 1TB | Sequential speeds: up to 3500MB/s reads, up to 3000MB/s writes You can jump straight to the selection you're interested in using the links below - including our brief explainers at the bottom of the article - or scroll on! Whether you're looking for a cheap, high-capacity budget drive for media storage or a blazing-fast option for minimising game load times, we've got a recommendation or two for you here. In this article, we've rounded up the best SSDs for the money right now, based on our extensive testing.
That makes it a great time to pick up a new larger and/or faster model, which provides more storage space and cutting load times significantly.
SATA SSDs are hitting new low prices too, with even high-capacity options costing surprisingly little. You may have noticed that SSD prices have dropped like a stone recently, with the debut of the first PCIe 5.0 drives making PCIe 3.0 and 4.0 NVMe drives ever cheaper.
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