You can't convince me otherwise; SSDs are the only technological arena right now that doesn't feel stagnant. It's that one component that constantly bucks the trend in terms of continually advancing onwards and upwards. Yes, there are costly technologies leveraged every year, and flagship drives are ripping up the rulebook every two and a half seconds (just look at the WD SN8100 for the perfect example of that). But consistently, time and time again, pricing continues to plummet beyond inflation. And in my eyes that's far more important than anything else. This here drive, the Biwin Black Opal NV7400, is the epitome, the very image of that notion.
I'm going to come straight out with it. For a 2 TB drive, in the US, you're paying $120 for this thing. One hundred and twenty bucks for 2,000 GB of pure PCIe 4.0 storage. That's six cents per gigabyte. By far the cheapest drive I've tested in the last year alone. The only ones that come even remotely close are the larger capacity boys, like WD's 8 TB SN850X or Crucial's own entry-level P310, but even then, they're still higher than this little number per gig. Best budget SSD? Well, hold on for just one moment while I divulge the good stuff, and then you can make your decision.
