Lowest price per gigabyte for PCI Express 4.0 SSDs yet ; Strong performance in PCMark 10 and Crystal DiskMark 4K runs ; Solid management software ; High write-durability rating ; Five-year warranty

Sequential speeds aren't the snappiest ; So-so PCMark 10 results in launching certain programs ; Hard-to-remove heatsink

If you've been waiting for a price drop to get your hands on a PCI Express 4.0 SSD, your long winter is over. The ADATA XPG S50 Lite delivers the best price-to-performance ratio we've seen for the spec yet.

Very good overall performance ; Excellent real-world performance ; Very affordable for a PCIe 4 NVMe SSD

Will slow down to 450MBps during very long copies

The XPG Gammix S50 Lite is the first PCIe 4 SSD we’ve tested that doesn’t carry a hefty next-gen surcharge. In the real world, you’d be hard-pressed to tell the difference between a system running it, and one running the far more expensive Samsung 980...