Best Amazon Prime Day Deals: SSDs and HDDs
Amazon’s Prime Day sales event is back again this year with countless deals on just about everything money can buy. Included in this are some excellent deals on SSDs and storage devices. After carefully sorting through the available deals, we’ve compiled this list of the best storage deals going on right now.
Adata XPG SX8200 Pro 512GB M.2 NVMe SSD (R/W: 3,500/3,000MB/s)
Adata has made quite a name for itself in the SSD market by offering affordable high-performance SSDs. This model of the company’s popular XPG SX8200 Pro product line has 512GB of storage space and it’s one of the fastest NVMe SSDs on the market with a read speed of 3,500MB/s. Right now this SSD is marked down from $129.99 to $74.99, and it drops an additional 6% with a clickable coupon on the store page that drops its final price to $70.49.
Regular Price: $129.99
Price From Amazon: $70.49
Western Digital Black 500GB M.2 NVMe SSD (R/W: 3,400/2,800MB/s)
Western Digital got a late start into the SSD market but has since become a force to be reckoned with. This WD Black drive can hold 500GB of data and it features a fast read speed of 3,400MB/s. The drive is also marked 47 percent off, which drops its price from $149.99 to $79.99.
Regular Price: $149.99
Price From Amazon: $79.99
Intel 660p Series 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD (R/W: 1,800/1,800MB/s)
Intel’s 660p isn’t the fastest NVMe SSD on the market and its read/write speeds are both capped at 1,800MB/s. It features a 1TB capacity, however, and it’s one of the least expensive NVMe SSDs of this size available.
Regular Price: $149.99
Price From Amazon: $79.99
Samsung 860 QVO 1TB 2.5-Inch SATA-III SSD (R/W: 550/520MB/s)
Large 2.5-inch SSDs like this one are slowly heading off the market as they are being replaced by smaller and faster M.2 NVMe drives. If your PC doesn’t support an M.2 slot, however, getting a 2.5-inch SATA-III SSD like this one will provide a significant performance boost over an HDD.
Regular Price: $129.99
Price From Amazon: $99.99
Adata XPG SX8200 Pro 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD (R/W: 3,500/3,000MB/s)
This model of Adata’s XPG SX8200 Pro offers just as much performance as the 512GB version, but with twice as much storage space. It also offers more gigs per buck compared to its less expensive counterpart. It’s marked down from $219.99 to $149.99 after a 32 percent discount, and it drops to $134.99 after applying a coupon that knocks off an additional 10 percent.
Regular Price: $219.99
Price From Amazon: $134.99
Samsung 970 Evo 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD (R/W: 3,500/2,500MB/s)
Reading data at 3,500MB/s, this SSD hits the limits of what the M.2 interface is capable of when connected using PCI-E 3.0 lanes. The drive was built using Samsung’s V-NAND 3-bit MLC NAND, which offers excellent performance. The drive is also rated to last for up to 1.5 million hours before failing.
Regular Price: $299.99
Price From Amazon: $169.99
Western Digital Blue 3D Nand 4TB SATA-III SSD (R/W: 560/530MB/s)
If you need a large and fast storage device, then this SSD will be perfect for you. Its enormous 4TB capacity can hold more data than the average person will use for several years. It’s also one of the fastest SATA-III SSDs and it can write data at a speed of up to 560MB/s. During Amazon’s Prime Day sales event you can get this drive marked down from $549.99 to $429.99.
Regular Price: $549.99
Price From Amazon: $429.99
Seagate BarraCuda 4TB 3.5-Inch SATA-III HDD (R/W: 190MB/s)
If that 4TB SSD is out of your price range but you still need large amounts of storage space, then a traditional 3.5-inch HDD like this one is a sensible alternative. Its read and write performance are significantly slower at 190MB/s, but it’s also significantly less expensive at just $79.99. This drive also comes with a large 256MB cache that helps to accelerate file navigation.
Regular Price: $99.99
Price From Amazon: $79.99
SanDisk 1TB Extreme Portable External USB3.1 Type-C SSD (R/W: 550/500MB/s)
This compact external SSD easily fits in your pocket, which makes it easy for you to take large amounts of data with you anywhere you go. The drive was also designed to be durable and water-resistant with an IP55 rating.
Regular Price: $549.99
Price From Amazon: $429.99
Seagate FireCuda 2TB SSHD (R/W: 210MB/s)
Seagate’s FireCuda SSHD offers a balanced compromise between an HDD and an SSD. It packs in a large 2TB capacity with an 8GB SSD NAND chip. It’s read/write performance can’t compete with an SSD and lags behind at 210MB/s, but frequently accessed files get transferred to the SSD chip and will load significantly faster as a result.
Regular Price: $94.99
Price From Amazon: $59.99
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