If you're in need of a drive for heavy write intensive tasks, pick up a TLC NAND drive for a couple £ more (like the Silicon Power UD90 for £210 from Amazon).
Or, for top end gen4 speeds, the fanxiang S880 is £213.
Just depends if you REALLY need the higher sequential speeds, very few people really do.
For everything else this drive is perfectly fine and isn't a bad price these days.
That said, if you're only using it for storage/games, having gen4 isn't a 'must have' so you could even save a few £ and get a gen3 drive instead (doesn't apply to PS5 owners of course).
EDIT:
I've been out of the loop for a while, if DirectStorage has actually taken off gen4 'might' be a better option (if you have games that support it).
EDIT2:
The Kingston NV2 4TB (Gen4 DRAM'ess QLC NAND drive, just like the P3 Plus) is cheaper than this so maybe not a great deal -
hotukdeals.com/dea…697 (edited)
Or, for top end gen4 speeds, the fanxiang S880 is £213.
Just depends if you REALLY need the higher sequential speeds, very few people really do.
For everything else this drive is perfectly fine and isn't a bad price these days.
That said, if you're only using it for storage/games, having gen4 isn't a 'must have' so you could even save a few £ and get a gen3 drive instead (doesn't apply to PS5 owners of course).
EDIT:
I've been out of the loop for a while, if DirectStorage has actually taken off gen4 'might' be a better option (if you have games that support it).
EDIT2:
The Kingston NV2 4TB (Gen4 DRAM'ess QLC NAND drive, just like the P3 Plus) is cheaper than this so maybe not a great deal -
hotukdeals.com/dea…697 (edited)
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