Intel's SSD 660p marks the debut of QLC flash for the consumer market. The new flash brings SATA-like pricing to the NVMe segment.

Intel’s new SSD 600p NVMe SSD marks the arrival of the first consumer drive with QLC flash. The new flash technology brings along the promise of lower prices and more capacious storage devices in the future, but it already looks good today. The SSD 660p communicates over a fast PCIe 3.0 x4 link to deliver solid performance numbers of up to 1.8 GB/s of throughput and offers surprisingly good performance in random workloads. If that wasn’t enough, the 660P comes with a five-year warranty and an MSRP below $0.20-per-GB, which is cheaper than many budget SATA SSDs with three-year warranties.

We tested the 1TB model, which has an MSRP of $199, but the 512GB $99 model is all that’s available at launch, and what you’ll find in our buy buttons below.