SSD Teamgroup 1TB is now the cheapest on the planet.

SSD Teamgroup 1TB is now the cheapest on the planet.

Go to Newegg (instead of Amazon) to buy the world's cheapest 1TB SSD. The Team Group L5 3D Lite is just €76.99, a 21% drop from its non-sale price of €96.99. Delivery is free in the United States and you will not be able to buy it anywhere else at this price. This is a standard 2.5-inch SATA SSD with 3D NAND chips and a Phison S11 controller; it supports the Windows TRIM optimization command and SMART technology. Unlike some of its competitors, it actually packs 1TB instead of 960GB of storage. Starting at a height of 7mm, it fits some of the largest laptops on the market. Even if it's a non-DRAM model, it packs a powerful punch. Team Group says it will hit 500MB/480MB in sequential read/write performance, rising to 320/280MB/s in 4K random read/write. A nice surprise is that the drive comes with a three-year warranty and an MTBF (mean time to failure) of one million hours. $76.99 is a full $17 cheaper than what the Pioneer APS-SL3 sold for on Amazon last May. The price of the latter dropped to €88.99, then to €79.50 buy for 10. Internal hard drives are still much cheaper, but the gap is closing fast; Similar-sized 5,400-rpm hard drives cost around $40, while faster 7,200-rpm models sell for $50 or more.