Remember the first SSDs, like the Intel X25-M. In the fog of 2008, the initial product offered only 80GB of storage. The price was only $595. Yes, the idea of an SSD for all storage needs seemed a long way off.

But not today, with the recent rise in flash memory prices, Newegg's Team Group MP44 offers a fast M.2 drive with 4TB capacity for $223.99.

Importantly, this is not a shoddy product using cheapo QLC flash memory, the type that looks good for sequential transfers of a few hundred gigs until the SLC cache runs out and the true horror of QLC flash's underlying performance is exposed.

Not so, the Team Group MP44 4TB has glorious, delicious TLC memory with 232-layer YMTC. Excellent!

The Maxio MAP1602 controller chip is not well known, but we have first-hand experience with this chip in the Lexar NM790 4TB. However, the specs on this SSD also look good. This is a PCie 4.0 drive, with a top speed of 7.4GB/s read and 6.9GB/s write. This is a DRAM-less drive, which may not be a big surprise given the punchy pricing. [But it has about 650K IOPS in both directions, plus 3,000TB of write endurance. The latter figure means that 1,643 GB of data can be written per day, every day, for five years. Not likely, is it?

In any case, the Team Group MP44 comes with a reassuring five-year warranty that should cover most needs; after five years, this kind of storage must come free with a box of cornflakes. Well, perhaps.

Until then, you can get 4TB worth of ultra-fast, low-latency, ultra-reliable storage. That's enough for a sizable Steam library, even taking into account that some of the newest titles require 100GB or more to install.

In any case, for most people, 4TB will be enough in most cases. So it's nice to know that you can get that for a pretty sensible price with one solid state solution.