It’s not a great time to upgrade the storage in your PC. Prices are high and there’s little new to be excited about. Though we can’t do without storage—it’s a need, not a want for PC gaming—so if you’re in the market, here are the best value SSDs I could find this Prime Day.
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I’ve focused on one key metric here: price per gigabyte. To find out which are best in this regard, I’ve added all of the SSDs in our best Prime Day SSD deals page into a spreadsheet, totalled the price and capacity, and come up with a final figure. It’s a bit rough and ready but here’s the result:
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So, what can we glean from this? Higher capacity means lower cost-per-gigabyte. That all stands to reason. We can also spot the better value drives here, and none of them are one terabyte in capacity.
While a 4 TB drive may be out of budget for many, it’s the lower-priced 2 TB drives that make the most sense. Especially as the cheapest of the lot, the Acer Predator GM7 at $246, is actually pretty fast.
Looking to the deals below, the cheapest drive per gigabyte is the T-Force G50 from Teamgroup at $400. That’s just $0.10/GB, which is untouchable in my estimations. I’ve not seen anything get close to that. Though it’s slower storage than the others. At $0.12/GB, the GM7 in 2 TB and 4 TB flavour is a valid choice with more performance on offer.
The Crucial P310 and P510 are outliers. The P510 is $0.16/GB, which doesn’t seem great, but this is a PCIe 5.0 drive. Faster than PCIe 4.0 by some margin, while usually out of the question for gamers at today’s prices, this one doesn’t have that price premium. Though much like the P310, the catch is it comes from Amazon Germany. There’s a risk of a long delivery window or some extra fees on import.
There’s no easy fix for the memory crisis. Supply is outstripping demand (thanks, AI) and our bank accounts are bearing the brunt of it. What that means for prices for the rest of the year is anyone’s guess. It’s tough to say with any confidence. It’s unlikely we’ll see a dramatic shift in pricing, as the supply of chips isn’t budging in the near-term.
Prime Day SSD deals – best value
$0.12/GB
Acer
Predator GM7 | 2 TB
$0.12/GB
Crucial
P310 | 2 TB
$0.10/GB
Team Group
T-Force G50 | 4 TB
$0.12/GB
Acer
Predator GM7 | 4 TB
$0.16/GB
Crucial
P510 | 1 TB
The full details
For this capacity at this price point, this drive is worth considering. If only because it’s pretty fast, pretty reliable, and pretty good value—at a time when all of those things are tough to find together.
Key specs: NVMe | PCIe 4.0 | 7,400 MB/s read | 6,500 MB/s writeView Deal
This drive uses QLC memory and comes without DRAM cache, but it’s still an impressively quick drive for the money, with strong sequential performance.
Key specs: PCIe 4.0 | Up to 7,100 MB/s read | up to 6,000 MB/s write
Price check: Newegg $274.99View Deal
It’ll be a long time before SSDs drop back to early 2025 prices, so buying the largest amount of storage you can afford will help to keep your gaming PC going through the memory crisis. Use promo code SDSSF787 to get the full discount.
Key specs: M.2 2280 | Up to 5,000 MB/s read | Up to 4,500 MB/s write | DRAM-lessView Deal
Though not as fast nor always as cheap as Biwin’s offerings, this drive does happen to be supported by the Biwin Intelligence performance management software. That’s some consolation, right? For this capacity at this price point, it’s definitely worth considering all the same.
Key specs: NVMe | PCIe 4.0 | 7,400 MB/s read | 6,500 MB/s writeView Deal
Though left in the dust by fellow PCIe 5.0 drive, the WD Black SN8100, Crucial still can’t be beat when it comes to balancing price against performance. Though not the speediest internal SSD, the P510 still offers proper Gen 5 performance for the cost of a Gen 4 drive—check out our full review.
Key specs: NVMe | PCIe 5.0 | 11,000 MB/s read | 9,500 MB/s write
Price check: Newegg $209.95View Deal
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