Now’s a Great Time to Pick up an SSD for Some of the Lowest Prices Ever: Real Deals
Prices have dropped on these SSD storage solutions
If you want some more storage capacity for your computer, then now is a great time to pick up extra storage with one of these best SSDs. With all variety of capacities taking a price drop, you can now pick up a Gen 4 SSD from 1TB to 2TB for less than $170, and this includes all the best brands and top performers.
One of our favorite SSDs, the SK hynix Platinum P41 2TB is now just $169 at Amazon. This drive offers blistering speeds and reliable performance. See our review of the Platinum P41 for more stats and performance notes, and see why it was an easy pick for an Editors Choice award.
Another Editor's Choice award winner, the WD Black SN850X 2TB is $159 on Amazon. Also a superfast drive, the WD Black SN850X offers impressively fast read/write speeds of up to 7300/6600 MB/s and can help to load games quickly in either a PC or as an officially recognized upgrade SSD for the PlayStation 5 games console. See our review of the WD Black SN850X for more details on this Solid State Drive.
A slightly slower entry than our previous two picks, the Solidigm P41 Plus 2TB for only $99 is superb value for a 2TB drive and can still perform well as a secondary storage drive for storing your games library. Have a look at our review of the Solidigm P41 Plus 2TB for more information on this excellent value drive.
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TL;DR — Today’s Best Deals
- 2TB SK hynix Platinum P41 PCIe 4.0 SSD: now $169 at Amazon (was $259)
- 2TB WD Black SN850X SSD: now $159 at Amazon (was $289)
- 2TB Solidigm P41 Plus PCIe 4.0 SSD: now $99 at Newegg (was $169)
- 1TB Samsung SSD 980 M.2 SSD: now $64 at Amazon (was $129)
- 2TB Crucial P3 Plus M.2 PCIe 4.0 SSD: now $112 at Best Buy (was $189)
Today’s best deals in detail
SK hynix Platinum P41 2TB PCIe 4.0 SSD: now $169 at Amazon (was $259)
One of the fastest SSDs on the market, the SK hynix Platinum P41 promises sequential read and write speeds of 7,000 and 6,500 MBps along with 1.4 and 1.3 million read / write IOPS.
WD Black SN850X 2TB SSD: now $159 at Amazon (was $289)
This PCIe Gen 4 NVMe M.2 SSD offers impressively fast read/write speeds of up to 7300/6600 MB/s, a minimal design, and a comprehensive WD Black software dashboard for keeping it running at its best.
Solidigm P41 Plus 2TB PCIe 4.0 SSD: now $99 at Newegg (was $169)
With sequential read/write speeds of 4125/3325 MBps, this 2TB drive is great value and performance in one small package. We reviewed the P41 Plus and found it a modest SSD, but at this price, it's a good choice for a second storage or games library drive.
1TB Samsung SSD 980 M.2: now $64 at Amazon (was $129)
Samsung has a great reputation for quality SSDs, and the Samsung 980 SSD continues that legacy. It lacks DRAM but packs extremely fast NAND and generally outpaces similarly priced budget SSDs. The 980 delivers sequential speeds of 3,500MB/s read and 3,000MB/s write.
2TB Crucial P3 Plus M.2 PCIe 4.0 SSD: now $112 at Best Buy (was $189)
Crucial’s P3 Plus isn’t the best-performing drive by any measure, as we saw in our review. But it’s a PCIe 4.0 model rated to top 5,000 MB/s sequential reads and 4,200 MB/s writes, with a good 5-year warranty.
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Stewart Bendle is a deals and coupon writer at Tom's Hardware. A firm believer in “Bang for the buck” Stewart likes to research the best prices and coupon codes for hardware and build PCs that have a great price for performance ratio.