Low price on this 2TB M.2 2230 sized SSD for those who are looking to upgrade storage in handhelds like the Steam Deck, ASUS ROG Ally (Original, not X), Lenovo Legion Go and similar. It's a good option for a small portable SSD in an M.2 2230 enclosure too. For even bigger savings stack with 13% cashback at TopCashback and a further 8% back as credit in the AliExpress cashback promotion by joining Team OzBargain.
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.
Featuring 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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I bought this exact 2TB to max out storage for my surface pro 8, and it kept restarting randomly due to the higher power draw. I only fixed it by doing 2x regedit hacks to activate extra power management settings in win11. If it happens to you, you can Google what to change. Hope that helps!