This 3.84TB Micron 5210 Ion is the cheapest large capacity SSD right now - TechRadar India, TechRadar

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The average price of solid state drives (SSD) have been slowly creeping up and yet there are bargains to be had – but perhaps not quite what you would expect them to be … A high-end, enterprise storage solid state drive occurs to be the cheapest large capacity SSD on the market. (The (Micron) (Ion is a 3.) TB solid state drive costs $ (around £ , AU $ 823) at PCNation (although you should be able to get it shipped globally) with a five year warranty. It’s significantly more affordable than the Samsung 2019 QVO for example and it comes with a caddy which can be easily unscrewed.

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(Its per TB cost) $ 317) is mightily close to that of the Team Group GX1 which, at $ is the current champion for value for money. But you’d need four of these to match the capacity of the Ion.

It may not be as good as 3. 99 TB Seagate Nytro SSD we highlighted in July but unless you have a time machine, you won’t be able to get the latter again for $ as prices have gone up significantly.

The high capacity of the Micron makes it perfect for archiving and warm storage. Just bear in mind that QLC NAND has lower write endurance on the order of 1, program / erase cycles, and lower write performance. So better use it as a hard disk replacement rather than a primary system disk.

This SATA drive has a rated read / write performance of (MBps and) (MBps respectively plus comes with AES) – bit encryption and secure firmware. It is still far more expensive than the equivalent 8TB internal hard disk drive with the cheapest on the market costing almost six times less. But if performance, resilience, volume, power consumption and weight are important then this Micron shouldn’t be overlooked.