2TB WD Black Drives Drop as Low as $112 Each in Two-Pack Sale

By Andrew E. Freedman
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Western Digital drops prices to new lows, as long as you're willing to double up on drives.

Combined photo of WD Black SN770 and WD Black SN850X.
(Image credit: Tom's Hardware)

Western Digital is trying to entice PC builders to add more storage by lowering prices, but you'll get the best offers if you're willing to buy two of the same drives. The WD SN770 and WD SN850X are both being offered in two-packs at a number of different sizes. They're the latest in a series of the best SSD deals we've been seeing among a series of falling prices.

The deals are all on 1TB or higher drives (sorry for those looking for a dirt cheap 250GB or 512GB WD Black SN770).

Here are the deals we're seeing:

The drives all appear on sale, but the best prices show up when you add two to the cart. If you only add one, a message will appear promising special offers if you double down. It seems that you can only have one of each deal in your cart at a time and that you can't mix and match capacities.

Among Tom's Hardware staffers, the standout deal is the 2TB SN770, a pretty great drive that's selling for $225 for a pair, or $112.50 per drive. (If you just want one, it's $199.99).

At the 1TB capacity, the SN770 is on sale for $59.99, with no need to buy two. A pair of 1TB SN850X drives are $89.99 per drive, while adding a heatsink brings it to $109.99 per SSD.

At 2TB, beyond the aforementioned SN770, the SN850X is $139.99 per drive for two drives, while the heatsink version is $149.99 each for two drives.

The only 4TB drive is the SN850X without a heatsink, which is $344.99 per SSD when you get a pair.

On the WD Blue side, we're seeing both SATA drives (M.2 and 2.5-inch) seeing slight sales at the 1TB capacity. The WD Blue SN570 is on sale at both 1TB and 2TB, and we're not seeing any need to buy two drives to get the sales. These don't offer the same performance as the Black series, but they're affordable and, in our reviews, usually dependable.

For 24/7 usage, the WD Red is SN700 one sale at 1TB, 2TB and 4TB. The larger capacities are showing the biggest bargains, with $60 off each drive at 2TB and $80 off each drive at 4TB, as long as you buy a pair.

We've been seeing WD's site occasionally hit 503 errors, possibly due to the fact that this sale is being shared around. We've had that fixed with a refresh, so if you hit a snag, keep trying.

Andrew E. Freedman
Andrew E. Freedman

Andrew E. Freedman is a senior editor at Tom's Hardware focusing on laptops, desktops and gaming. He also keeps up with the latest news. A lover of all things gaming and tech, his previous work has shown up in Tom's Guide, Laptop Mag, Kotaku, PCMag and Complex, among others. Follow him on Twitter: @FreedmanAE

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  • PlaneInTheSky
    WD trying 2 for 1 deals. AMD desperately bundling memory and mobo with free games to get stuff out the door. Nvidia with giant stocks of 4000 series.

    This is getting pathetic. Cut your prices in half if you want to sell stuff. The crypto and pandemic boom is over.
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  • helper800
    PlaneInTheSky said:
    WD trying 2 for 1 deals. AMD desperately bundling memory and mobo with free games to get stuff out the door. Nvidia with giant stocks of 4000 series.

    This is getting pathetic. Cut your prices in half if you want to sell stuff. The crypto and pandemic boom is over.
    This we agree on wholeheartedly!
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  • LastStanding
    Any 1TB drive today is not only almost useless (1 game, 1 musical instrument package, etc. could easily be over 200GiB+) but these OEMSs asking for over $40+ for that thing just seems dumb today.
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  • atomicWAR
    PlaneInTheSky said:
    WD trying 2 for 1 deals. AMD desperately bundling memory and mobo with free games to get stuff out the door. Nvidia with giant stocks of 4000 series.

    This is getting pathetic. Cut your prices in half if you want to sell stuff. The crypto and pandemic boom is over.

    100% They need to start cutting pricing at this point. The whole 4000 series pricing is a joke, I would know I got a 4090 ONLY because Nvidia miraculously priced it so well compared to its other cards performance wise, especially high refresh rate 4K gamers like myself upgrading from RTX 2080 Ti (or any higher end 2000 series card). And I upgraded my whole CPU platform as well to a 7950X though I did get the holiday pricing to be fair. Which I also plan to replace tomorrow 7950X3D and drop my old 7950X in my home server. If I wasn't in a rush to build/finish these computers I would certainly be waiting for more price drops. Hopefully by may or june when I am building my wife's rig things will have course corrected.

    LastStanding said:
    Any 1TB drive today is not only almost useless (1 game, 1 musical instrument package, etc. could easily be over 200GiB+) but these OEMSs asking for over $40+ for that thing just seems dumb today.

    Yeah I'd like to see the cost come down faster myself as I agree with your assessment on drive usage. I run 10TB (3x 2TB 1x 4TB) of NVMe storage myself aimed mostly at games. That said I do understand the it takes time for these chips to cheapen up. I do hope within two years time you can grab a 4TB SSD for under 180 bucks....
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  • MASOUTH
    Among Tom's Hardware staffers, the standout deal is the 2TB SN770, a pretty great drive that's selling for $225 for a pair, or $112.50 per drive. (If you just want one, it's $199.99).

    a bit of a typo there. Should be $119.00, not $199.99
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  • Fates_Demise
    PlaneInTheSky said:
    WD trying 2 for 1 deals. AMD desperately bundling memory and mobo with free games to get stuff out the door. Nvidia with giant stocks of 4000 series.

    This is getting pathetic. Cut your prices in half if you want to sell stuff. The crypto and pandemic boom is over.
    Yea they arnt gonna take a loss on material and development costs. If stuff doesn't sell they will just drag out launching next gen until it does
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