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I'm in NZ but saw the Sabrent 2TB Rocket Q4 (QLC) NVMe PCIe 4.0 M.2 2280 Internal SSD Maximum Performance Solid State Drive R/W 4800/3600 MB/s (SB-RKTQ4-2TB) sold by Amazon Australia has come down in price to $267.01 as it's on my CamelCamelCamel watch list.
This is basically the same drive1 as the Corsair MP600 CORE 2TB here https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/684978 but lacks the heatsink and obviously Sabrent branded/support/warranty/etc. It's slightly cheaper and since the Corsair heatsink evidentially doesn't really work with the PS5, thought it might be of interest. To be clear, as this is gen 4 it will work on the PS5. It's unlikely to meet the recommended read speed, but so far that's never been an issue.
Note although a generation 4 SSD, this has QLC NAND (Micron's 96L) so has all the QLC disadvantages. It has Phison's E16 so does have DRAM cache. Personally I don't feel this is a good deal for most people, better to spend the extra to get the 2TB 970 EVO Plus which is one of the best TLC generation 3 SSDs. Alternatively if performance matters, spend a bit more and get a high end generation 4. Sequential speeds only tend to give you a small benefit for most purposes compared to 4k random etc. So with the QLC + weak Phison E16 controller, even within the SLC cache region, you tend to get better performance with a good gen 3 drive in real world use. And with a QLC, you really don't want to be writing before the SLC cache has recovered.
It also has a lowish warrantied 0.1 DWPD or 450TB over 5 years although IMO that tends to be overblown. For most consumer purposes. at that level you're unlikely to ever reach it.
Some reviews: (again the MP600 Core 2TB is basically interchangeable)
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/sabrent-rocket-q4-2-tb/
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16577/qlc-pcie-40
(look at the MP600 Core not the Sabrent Q4 since that's a 4TB and 4TBs can perform different due to more dies or denser NAND)
https://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/9725/corsair-mp600-core-2t…
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You can ignore any differences in what their marketing department decided to put for maximum read and writes. Look at discussion in reviews or the https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1B27_j9NDPU3cNlj2HKcr… SSD spreadsheet ↩
Nice write up covering pros and cons, have my +1