This $299 2TB MSI SSD is one of the least expensive PCIe 4.0 SSDs you can buy right now
- ID
- 27199
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 22 Sep 2026, 6:48 PM
- Fetched
- 22 Sep 2026, 10:32 PM
- Provider
- Tom's Hardware
- Category
- technology
- Original URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/this-usd299-2tb-msi-ssd-is-one-of-the-least-expensive-pcie-4-0-ssds-you-can-buy-right-now-just-10-cents-per-gb-yields-a-speedy-upgrade-for-your-internal-storage
- Source URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/feeds/all
Summary
- Score
- 2.0
- Created
- 22 Sep 2026, 10:36 PM
- Tags
- Audience
- developersai_ml_learners
What happened
Tom's Hardware highlights a 2TB MSI PCIe 4.0 SSD priced at $299 (roughly 10 cents per GB), positioning it as one of the cheapest PCIe 4.0 internal storage options currently available. The article body is mostly site navigation and membership boilerplate, with no further technical detail beyond the price and capacity.
Why it matters
For builders running local AI models or agent workloads that need fast local storage, sub-$0.10/GB PCIe 4.0 SSDs lower the cost of large local model caches and datasets. However, the article provides no benchmarks, endurance ratings, or real-world performance data, so there is no basis to decide on this specific drive over alternatives.
Discussion angle
Whether cheap PCIe 4.0 storage at ~$0.10/GB is now cheap enough to stop worrying about local disk capacity for local LLM model files and datasets, or if endurance and sustained-write performance still matter more than price-per-GB for AI workloads.