In all honesty, a good TLC drive from a reputable brand will likely last you longer than your laptop. I've seen plently of good ones like the Samsung 980, Sk Hynix Gold, and various WD Blacks fall below $50 for 1TB. As a sidenote, given you are looking at NVMe drives, I would say more budget drives without DRAM (like the 980 non-pro) are no longer as much an issue, given most will now have HMB. In the old days of SATA drives, it was common advice to always get drives with DRAM, as DRAMless drives were just absolute dogshit for SSDs since once they ran out of cache, they would become slow as shit. Nowadays, many NVMe drives, if they lack DRAM cache on the drive itself, can use system ram as a cache, and really, unless you are autistic about benchmarks, this is completely fine for ordinary use.