This 4 TB NVMe SSD is the only one I've seen below $400 and going big is the best way to survive the memory chip crisis

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With SSD prices now rapidly ballooning, due to the dearth of supply caused by AI data centers swallowing up all of the memory chips, buying a new storage drive at the moment might seem like a silly idea. But with no end in sight to the RAMpocalypse, if you do have to get one, I strongly suggest that you go as big as you can afford.

And at a cent shy of $400 at Newegg, this Team Group T-Force G50 is an ideal purchase.

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Bigger SSDs last longer than smaller ones, hence why this particular model has a write endurance of 2,600 TBW. You'd have to completely fill the whole drive, every single day for nearly two years, to hit that limit, and even then, it will still carry on working after that.

So why is this drive so cheap compared to every other 4 TB SSD out there? There are two reasons: It's from Team Group, and it's not blisteringly fast, despite using a PCIe 4.0 interface.

In the case of the former, that company is one of the largest SSD makers around, so it has a reasonable supply of flash chips compared to others, hence why some models it makes are more affordable than the competition.

As for the speed, well, that's a non-issue, to be honest. You really won't notice those sequential read/write rates, either in gaming or just general use. It's only if you try to fling around enormous 4K videos that things will be a touch on the slow side. In every other scenario, this will be absolutely fine.

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Best SSD for gaming 2026

1. Best overall:
WD_Black SN7100

2. Best budget:
Biwin Black Opal NV7400

3. Best PCIe 5.0:
WD_Black SN8100

4. Best budget PCIe 5.0:
Crucial P510

5. Best 4 TB:
TeamGroup MP44

6. Best 8 TB:
WD_Black SN850X

7. Best M.2 2230:
Lexar Play 2230

8. Best for PS5:
Silicon Power XS70

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Nick, gaming, and computers all first met in the early 1980s. After leaving university, he became a physics and IT teacher and started writing about tech in the late 1990s. That resulted in him working with MadOnion to write the help files for 3DMark and PCMark. After a short stint working at Beyond3D.com, Nick joined Futuremark (MadOnion rebranded) full-time, as editor-in-chief for its PC gaming section, YouGamers. After the site shutdown, he became an engineering and computing lecturer for many years, but missed the writing bug. Cue four years at TechSpot.com covering everything and anything to do with tech and PCs. He freely admits to being far too obsessed with GPUs and open-world grindy RPGs, but who isn't these days?