You might not have heard of Biwin but it's made the best value PCIe 4.0 SSD we've tested in some time

I remember when prices collapsed for solid state drives. It started slow at first, but before we knew it, most PCIe 4.0 SSDs were tumbling into our shopping baskets with nary a second thought. Fond memories. Thankfully, any attempt to increase Gen4 SSD prices since then have largely failed, with drives like the Biwin Black Opal NV7400 making sure of that.

The NV7400 is powered by the same controller as our previous pick for the best budget SSD, Lexar's NM790 . This is MaxioTech's MAP1602A. The NV7400 pairs this with either Micron or YMTC 232-Layer TLC NAND, whereas the Lexar only uses the latter. Effectively, though, they're pretty similar. Though by virtue of the NV7400's recent release—the NM790 came out in 2023—Biwin is able to offer a price tag on it that's lower than Lexar's best sal