When picking up the best SSD for gaming, some of the budget options are getting seriously impressive nowadays - as we found in our WD Blue SN550 review. Intel isn't the first brand you'd usually think of for storage, but it's just announced (via PCWorld) its latest budget-oriented NVMe SSD, called the 670P. Intel's Rocket Lake-S lineup is launching on March 30 with PCIe 4.0 support, but this drive is still using the PCIe 3.0 standard, which is to be expected in the budget SSD market.
The drive uses a quad-level cell NAND, unlike the technically superior triple-level cell flash memory used in most rivalling SSDs. Despite this, the rated sequential read speed for the 670P is still 3500MB/s - maxing out the bandwidth of the PCIe 3.0 standard - and the sequential write speed is an equally respectable 2700MB/s.
This is almost double the sequential read speeds of its predecessor, the 660p, rated at 1800MB/s, and a 50% jump in sequential write speeds. Intel also claims that the 670p has 20% more endurance, which would give it around 480TBW (terabytes written) for the 2TB model, 240TBW for the 1TB capacity, and 120TBW for the 512GB model - although Intel has yet to confirm these figures, that would put the endurance a little lower than rival TLC drives.
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