This is the cheapest 4TB SSD you can get — Acer FA200 Gen4 SSD costs $480, less than $0.12 per GB, 50% less than Samsung 990 Pro

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There's no question about it. The cheapest 4TB SSD you can get right now is the Acer FA200 4TB internal SSD is now $480 at Amazon, which I previously saw listed for $530. In the UK, the FA200 is priced at £430 for anyone who needs extra PC storage.

That makes it the cheapest SSD per TB since February this year, at less than $0.12 per GB. Of course, thanks to the component crisis, that's still a lot more expensive than it was a year ago - but unless you're willing to help me install a Flux Capacitor into my car, it's the best price for an SSD of this capacity and speed that I've seen.

Recent updates

Update October 8. I've checked the price and Acer's SSD is still $480 post-Prime Day. My other picks below are all significantly more expensive and costs have increased.

Acer FA200 4TB SSD
Acer FA200 4TB SSD: $479.99 at Amazon

Designed for professionals, creators, and gamers, the Acer FA200 is a Gen4 NVMe internal SSD capable of hitting speeds up to 7200 MB/s. Stock is getting low, but more units are available by clicking on "other sellers on Amazon" from as little as $479.

UK price: now £430

Why I recommend this deal

At this price, that works out at $120 per TB (or a little under 12cents per GB, if you prefer), which is the most affordable I've seen in the deals.

The drive is well-specced for both general computing, as well as heavy workloads like video editing, 3D rendering, and gaming. Connectivity-wise, it features a PCIe Gen4 with hitting read speeds of 7,200 MB/s and write speeds of 6,200 MB/s.

It compares very well to competing 4TB PCIe 4.0 SSDs like the Samsung SSD 990 Pro ($938.99), which costs almost twice the price for a marginally faster performance or the Western Digital 4TB SN5000 Blue, which costs the same but has a way slower performance.

The FA200 got a solid 60% from our sister publication, Tomshardware. The reviewer noted that it has an above average overall performance, is power efficient and runs cool but suffers from poor sustained write performance.

Western Digital WD Blue SN5000 4TB SSD
Western Digital WD Blue SN5000 4TB SSD: $499.99 at Amazon

The closest competitor to the FA200 in terms of price, but the speeds can't match it, reaching up to 5,500 MB/s.

Samsung 990 Pro 4TB SSD
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Samsung 990 Pro 4TB SSD: was $1,099.99 now $949 at Amazon

Still one of the best internal SSDs we've ever tested, but the price is astronomically high right now, especially compared to the Acer FA200.

Biwin Black Opal 2TB SSD
Biwin Black Opal 2TB SSD: $340.99 at Amazon

This deal is from Biwin, who manufacturer's the Acer SSD. It's for the 2TB model, so you could plug two in a RAID-0 to match the FA200's capacity.


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Desire Athow
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Désiré has been musing and writing about technology during a career spanning four decades. He dabbled in website builders and web hosting when DHTML and frames were in vogue and started narrating about the impact of technology on society just before the start of the Y2K hysteria at the turn of the last millennium.

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