Spend big, save big: Team Group's 4 TB PCIe 4.0 SSD is probably the best value drive I've seen in a long ol' while

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I'm just a boy, looking on the internet for a good SSD deal. Is that too much to ask for? Apparently, it is. I've found a grand total of three of them today, 1 and 2 TB Crucial drives, all of which were 50 to 60% higher in price than when I first reviewed them. Ouch. That was moderately depressing until I stumbled across Team Group's little gem here (I say stumbled, senor Ridley, went "ere lad, I've spotted this well good 4 TB deal" word for word, verbatim) and here we are.

Team Group's T-Force G50 4TB is technically a bargain. And I use that term lightly. Newegg's selling it right now, with promo code FTT462 for a shockingly low $400. That is about as low as I've seen it for some time. For context, it regularly sits at around $500 or so, and I've even seen it as high as $520.

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What that means is that, finally, at last, there's a drive out there that's broken the 10-cent-per-GB barrier. $0.099 per gig to be exact. It ain't much, but there's literally nothing we've seen to date that even comes close to that. The only downside, of course, is you're forking out the big bucks to get the monster savings.

I've tested a fair few Team Group SSDs in my time, most recently the 2 TB MP44Q, and while that drive didn't exactly impress compared to some of its competitors out there (benchmarked when prices were slightly more comfortable), on the whole, they're not that bad by any measure. Pricing has such a big impact on scores these days, it's remarkable.

So, hardware-wise, the T-Force G50 is running InnoGrit's IG5220 controller. It's a 12 nm DRAM-less design that leans on an HMB instead of a cache on the SSD itself. That's then been backed up with two 2 TB packages of YMTC's 3D TLC 128-layer NAND flash. It's not quick, not by any length of the imagination, but the endurance rating is far, far higher than the G50 Evo's QLC that Team Group swapped out for later.

Sequentials are flagged up at 5,000 MB/s on the read and 4,500 MB/s on the write, making it basically an entry-level PCIe 4.0 drive, but still, 4 TB ain't nothing to shake your head at. Especially if you need the storage space for an expansive game library, the single-sided design makes it compatible with smaller form factors, too, such as the PlayStation 5 and some of the best gaming laptops.

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After graduating from the University of Derby in 2014, Zak joined the PC Format and Maximum PC team as its resident staff writer. Specializing in PC building, and all forms of hardware and componentry, he soon worked his way up to editor-in-chief, leading the publication through the covid dark times. Since then, he’s dabbled in PR, working for Corsair for a while as its UK PR specialist, before returning to the fold as a tech journalist once again.

He now operates as a freelance tech editor, writing for all manner of publications, including PC Gamer, Maximum PC, Techradar, Gamesradar, PCGamesN, and Trusted Reviews as well. If there’s something happening in the tech industry it’s highly likely Zak has a strong opinion on it.