Samsung 870 Qvo for $312 with code EMCXHEHU2
Our fearless leader Katharine reviewed the 870 Qvo last year, and noted that this extra-large SSD makes some sensible sacrifices in order to deliver great performance in most tasks while also remaining cheap. Sustained writes speeds aren’t great, in common with other drives that are built around QLC technology, but this is ameliorated by having a large DRAM cache - for the 4TB drive, this is a sizeable 4GB. That keeps performance high during normal tasks, like playing games or copying files around. It’s this kind of clever decision-making that’s made the 870 Qvo our pick for ‘best big SATA SSD’.
Portable SSDs like the Crucial X6 are also significantly more expensive; this one goes for $490 for a 4TB model. So if you want a giant portable SSD, just pair this drive with a 10Gbps SATA enclosure and you’ll be good to go for a fraction of the price.
In any case, I hope this deal proves useful to the PC builders and data hoarders out there. Thanks for checking it out, and we’ll see you again next week for more deals!
