The Toshiba RC100 240GB ushers in a new generation of budget NVMe solid state drives that delivers great performance for regular consumer workloads.

Although I am all for seizing the moment as mentioned in my Kingston UV500 240GB (M.2) review recently, my friend Zach is a whole different level. The sheer brilliance of him seizing the moment is that half of the time you cannot tell if he is trolling you or being genuinely sincere; the other half, he is being genuinely sincere while completely unaware he is trolling you. A few weeks ago, we were walking in downtown Calgary when a homeless man approached us. "Can you spare some change?" he asked. Zach took out his wallet and looked inside. "Would you like ten cents in Canadian Tire money? Sorry, this is all I got." I think people on the streets have probably seen almost everything under the sun, but even this guy did not know how to react to Zach's innocent face and his offer of Canadian Tire money. After the man walked off, Zach looked at me puzzled. "What? That is literally all I have." Recently, I got my hands on Toshiba's latest solid state drive, the RC100. Marketed as an affordable NVMe drive that is reasonably fast but sized in the ultra-compact M.2 2242 form factor, it is certainly does not look like it is something made to shatter any performance barriers. The RC100 may be small, but is it fast? Is Toshiba trolling us, or are they being serious? Or could they be doing both at the same time, like my friend Zach? Read on to find out!