Cyber Monday SSD and HDD Deals Live: Best Sales on Internal and External Drives

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Cyber Monday SSD and HDD Deals Live: Best Sales on Internal and External Drives

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2024-12-01T22:34:34.888Z

Bulk storage: 2TB SSD now just 3.9 cents per GB

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If you are adding a secondary drive to your desktop, you can save money by using a 2.5-inch SATA drive. If you’re using the drive primarily for data and not for apps / games, the speed doesn’t have to be blinding in order to matter.

Right now,

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has a 2TB SATA drive from Silicon Power, the A55, for

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. That’s a rate of 3.9 cents per GB, which is pretty impressive. We wouldn’t expect read or write speeds much above 550 MB/s but considering the price, that’s fine.

2024-12-01T22:33:28.565Z

Out of M.2 slots? Convert one of your spare PCIe x4/8/16 slots for just $14

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If you’re someone like me who can’t have enough internal storage, there’s a good chance you are running out of M.2 SSD slots. And if your board has Wi-Fi and you don’t need any specialty hardware, you probably also have a spare PCIe slot (or two or three) that aren’t being used.

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basically converts that spare slot into a PCIe 4.0 M.2 housing, complete with a heatsink. And it’s currently on ***** for just $13.99 at

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One thing to keep in mind when using a device like this, is that motherboards have a limited amount of PCIe lanes. And plugging in extra devices into slots often halves the bandwidth of other cards. While it depends on the chipset and other hardware on the motherboard, plugging a this card into the second x16 slot will often halve the bandwidth to your graphics card.

That sounds bad, and it certainly can be if you have an older PCIe 3.0 motherboard. But so long as your board has a PCIe 5.0 or 4.0 slot for your graphics card, those slots are so fast that even halving the bandwidth shouldn’t significantly affect your gaming performance. But adding extra cards can also sometimes turn off M.2 slots. As always, check your motherboard manual before buying, to see how plugging in an extra PCIe device will affect the rest of the ports and slots in your PC.

2024-12-01T22:31:36.715Z

Juggling M.2 SSDs? You can now pick up an NVMe / SATA dock for $20

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It’s hard to believe, but the M.2 SSD format has been around for over a decade. And if you’re an enthusiast / data hoarder like me, there’s a very good chance you have a few older drives in a drawer somewhere that could contain data you want, or might just be ready to be wiped and used in an SSD enclosure. The easiest way to know for sure is to plug the drive into an M.2 SSD dock, and this model from Fideco is

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This isn’t the fastest dock, topping out at 10 Gbps, but that’s plenty fast for basic tasks and even drive cloning if you patient. Since the drives just plug vertically into the M.2 slot on top, all drive lengths are supported. All NVMe M.2 drives will work with this dock and some SATA drives will. Just note that B Key SATA drives with a single notch in their connector do not work with this dock.

2024-12-01T21:49:17.515Z

The capacious 4TB Samsung 990 EVO Plus is selling for an all-time low $249

The drumbeat of good SSD deals continues into Cyber Monday, with the

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, which is ~$100 off its standard MSRP. This bulky slab of 4TB of flash goodness is actually selling at all-time low pricing, but we expect that, like many of the other deals on 4TB SSDs that we’ve seen, the deal won’t last long. This drive is single-sided, so it’s just as good for laptops as it is for desktop PCs and the PS5.

The Samsung 990 Evo Plus corrected many of the flaws of its predecessor, and as you can read about in our full review, the drive’s only drawback was high pricing — a flaw that is obviously rectified with today’s all-time low pricing.

The drive delivers 7,250 / 6,300 MB/s of sequential read/write throughput and a blistering 1.4 / 1.05 million random write/read IOPS over the PCIe 4.0 interface. The drive comes with a stout 2,400 TB of write data guarantee over its solid 5-year warranty *******, meaning it can more than take the beating of a typical desktop PC. It also supports hardware encryption, too, so you won’t lose any performance from keeping your files and data secure.

2024-12-01T20:54:56.724Z

You can grab the best Steam Deck SSD for $139

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Crucial’s P310 is our favorite 2TB QLC M.2 2230 SSD thanks to its strong all-around performance and power-efficiency, and while it seems to be sold out around the web at its all-time low price of $139.99, you can still grab it at a pretty solid discount

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(was $214.99). The 1TB version is also on ***** for $69.99, down from $114.99.

The P310 is QLC-based, which means it’s not quite as fast or consistent as it could be, but it’s more power-efficient than the TLC-based WD ****** SN770M and has more throughput. It features 7,100 MB/s read speeds and 6,000 MB/s write speeds and can be extended up to M.2 2280 if needed. It’s the fastest M.2 2230 SSD we’ve tested — and its 1TB variation is currently the same price as the Corsair MP600 Mini, so it’s a great alternative.

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Read our full review here: Crucial P310

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