Samsung 970 EVO Plus
Samsung did something incredible with the 970 EVO Plus, offering performance that matches (even supersedes) the 970 PRO but without the insane price tag. The 970 EVO Plus is based on Samsung s latest 96-layer V NAND memory, and with the series starting at an affordable price for the 256GB storage capacity, this is an extremely enticing SSD.
Read and write speeds are 3,500MB/s and 3,300MB/s, respectively. It s fast, but not quite as fast as PCIe 4.0 SSDs. We could have put Sabrent s Rocket 4 Plus here and called it a day, but Samsung offers rapid, yet affordable SSD performance with its 970 EVO Plus and it s more than enough for most PC builds to this day.