The excellent Crucial P3 Plus 1TB NVMe SSD is just £50 from Amazon right now
Back down to a lower price.
If you're after an affordable SSD in a landscape of seemingly ever-increasing prices, then I may well have the deal for you. The Crucial P3 Plus is a reliable and popular choice from recent times that has marked itself out as a marvellous value choice for those who want a speedy PCIe 4.0 drive with some solid performance. At Amazon, it's currently £50, marking a decent saving on its previously quoted £57 price tag.
The P3 Plus may be one of Crucial's more affordable NVMe SSDs, thanks to its DRAM-less design, but as a PCIe 4.0 drive it's one of their fastest in recent times. Read and write speeds of 5000MB/s and 4200MB/s means it's going to be a handy upgrade to any older solid state drives you have in your system, as well as a game-changing upgrade over any older mechanical hard drives that you may happen to still be using in your PC. What's more, its random read and writes of 680K and 850K IOPS means that the P3 Plus also offers especially quick load times in games, too, if you wanted to run your Steam library from it, for instance. This places it just below the very fastest PCIe 4.0 drives, many of which make for some of the best gaming SSDs out there, which tend to max out around the 1,000K IOPS mark.
A 1TB capacity adds in a decent amount of storage for you to play with for installing games, media, or apps alike. As much as this drive doesn't offer a DRAM cache, you could still place your OS on the P3 Plus, although given the speeds on offer, the capacity may be better served as being a game drive. Speaking of it as a game drive, despite Sony's stringent requirements for PS5 drives, the P3 Plus works inside Sony's latest console. You may want to add an inexpensive heatsink to ensure peak sustained performance, though. We've recommended this £8 option for a long time, for instance.
In terms of PC-based compatibility, you'll want to make sure you're using a motherboard that supports PCIe 4.0 for the P3 Plus to work at its full speeds. That's basically motherboard released in the last four to five years (eg B550/X570 or Z590/H560 and later). Older systems can work, although not at the full speeds, given the backwards compatbility of PCIe 4.0 with earlier standards..
If you're wanting a speedy SSD to chuck into your PC or PS5, this Crucial P3 Plus is down to £50 from Amazon in its 1TB flavour, which is a great deal given the current market circumstances.