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When it comes to SSDs, the brands we probably think about most often are WD, Samsung, Crucial and Kioxia, each of which creates their own flash memory. However, we’re missing thefifth place NAND flash memory manufacturer, another brand that creates their own flash memory and controllers: SK Hynix, or as their consumer brand is labelled, Solidigm (meant to rhyme with paradigm for some reason).
I recently upgraded a laptop I’m testing with their P44 Pro 1TB drive, and I’ve been thrilled with its performance - and now, this drive has hit a scorchingly hot price on Amazon US. You can now pick up this drive for just $69.99 after a 44% discount from its US MSRP of $124.99, an incredible price for a high-end PCIe 4.0 drive.
Get the Solidigm P44 Pro M.2-2280 1TB SSD PCI Express 4.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive for $69.99 (was $124.99)
As well as boasting impressive sequential performance, with 7000MB/s reads and 6500MB/s on this capacity, the drive also boasts ludicrously fast random performance - up to 1.4M IOPS for reads and 1.3M IOPS for writes, putting it alongside some of thefastest gaming SSDslike the WD SN850x and Samsung 990 Pro. This is down to the drive’s use of all SK Hynix components, from the Aries controller to 176-layer TLC NAND flash memory and LPDDR4 DRAM cache. This tight integration allows the drive to outcompete basically everything else on the market, only falling behind PCIe 5.0 SSDs that have just barely started to reach reviewers.
This is the sort of Amazon price graph you love to see.
In any case, this a fantastic deal and I recommend you check out some reviews on your own, then pick up this SSD if you’re in the market for one!
