Corsair MP600 PRO LPX 2TB M.2 NVMe PCIe x4 Gen4 SSD, Optimised for PS5 - Up to 7,100MB/sec

Flash drive prices have been volatile lately due to that Chinese manufacturers became capable of making high performance NAND chips in the last a year or two

It's a combination of that, but more so the fact that most of the major NAND producers have been scaling back production in the last Month or so, resulting in an increase of the prices of the 'big brands' that use their NAND.

The initial price crash was down to overproduction and lack of demand at the time.
Micron and SK Hynix both posted losses of around $2.3 BILLION EACH in the 2nd quarter of 2023.
Now they're trying to scrape back some of those losses by reducing production, therefore creating a bigger demand.

YMTC (whose NAND goes into most of the smaller branded drives, the majority of which are produced by BiWin) have shown no sign of scaling back production (yet), which is why the price of the smaller brands (Netac/Silicon Power/fanxiang/Integral/ADATA/etc) haven't changed much (some have, but not as much as the big brands).

Oddly, Corsair uses Micron NAND but you can still pick up some of their drives (like this one) for fairly decent prices, though they have gone up since the rather nice MP600 Pro NH for £84 deal.
I think think one will jump back up in price fairly soon. (edited)

Maybe the same performance as the original NV7000, but not the one I got which sustained an average of 750MB/s sequential write. Quite unfortunate. I have a 2TB Corsair MP600 Pro XT which did a full write averaging 5.56GB/s. Task Manager reported 6GB/s the entire way through.

This is similar to what Guru3D found, but techpowerup found 3.6GB/s or so. Not sure why the huge difference but I see this a lot with SSD benchmarks. Maybe because some techpowerup reviews use older platforms. This MP600 Pro LPX I believe should perform the same as a Pro XT.

Also the NV7000 has a warranty void sticker covering one of the heatsink screws, which Corsair doesn't do. (edited)

What makes it not good value? £100 for a high-end 2TB SSD is a good price, considering that prices have been steadily increasing over the last month.

I found one of the main culprits for that on ebay, he has masses of 'no box' NVMe drives and CPU's and just happens to live in Walsall, right near an Amazon storage warehouse...

It's really not worth the extra over this, no difference in performance.

This is a cracker of a deal though -
hotukdeals.com/dea…893

Basically a slightly modified KC3000.

Also, I saw you mention the endurance of the 530 above. The TBW numbers actually have very little to do with the endurance of a drive, it's just the amount of wear a brand will let you reach for them to replace it under warranty.

Kingston switched the TBW of the 2TB 520 from 3600 to 1200 even though it still has the same NAND as before.

I had a 1TB Crucial MX500 that hit around doubled it's TBW before I replaced it (needed a bigger scratch drive).
I like to think it's still out there somewhere happily plodding along. (edited)