Western Digital SN740 2TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2 2230 SSD US$97.89 (~A$149.52) Delivered @ Storage Choice Store AliExpress
If you’ve recently picked up a cheap Steam Deck or another handheld like the ASUS ROG Ally then here’s a good deal for upgrading the storage. Stack with 12% cashback at TopCashback and AliExpress coins for further savings.
This works with other devices that only accept 2230 sized SSDs including Surface Pro 9, X, Surface Laptop 3, 4, Laptop Go and more. Since this is a Gen4 SSD you shouldn’t use it with the Surface Pro 8 and Surface Pro 7+ due to stability issues. Both of these have no issues with Gen3 SSDs.
This one offers a sequential read up to 5150 MB/s, sequential write up to 4850 MB/s and uses Toshiba BiCS5 112l or SanDisk TLC flash. Unfortunately 2230 sized SSDs don’t have DRAM cache, but this one uses pSLC cache and HMB to make up for it so it’s perfectly fine for gaming. Especially when a lot of other similar SSDs are QLC.
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There’s 22 available at time of posting and the seller may restock later.
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