WD Black SN850X | 2TB | NVMe | PCIe 4.0 | 7,300MB/s read | 6,600MB/s write | $199.99$89.99 at NeweggOur favorite SSD for gaming but in a 2TB package. There's a premium to pay for the speed the SN850X offers, but it's worth it if you are chasing performance.Price check: Western Digital $143 | Amazon $143
I recently bought a 1TB SSD for the first time the other day. After stubbornly treading water for far too long and getting rid of games to stay afloat, the fear of ever bloating installation sizes and updates finally got to me, and I cracked and splurged for lots of extra space. If I'd known that Prime Day was going to have so many cheap 2TB SSDs on offer, I would've been a little more patient.
You can currently get our favorite SSD—the WD Black SN850X—for the low price of $60. If you're willing to spend a little extra, you can grab the 2TB version instead for $90, which is a serious upgrade. As Dave, our hardware lead says: a decent SSD is «an essential PC gaming upgrade» and it'll only become ever more vital with big upcoming games like Starfield requiring one for you to play.
With excellent all around performance and speed, the SN850X is a great place to start if you don't already have an SSD.
If you're looking for something a little cheaper, the Crucial P3 Plus is also on offer for $75. It might not be quite as fast as the above, but storage is still storage, and it'll give you that 2TB while not requiring you to shell out quite as much. One of disadvantages that we highlighted in our review of the Crucial P3 Plus last year was that its price wasn't quite good enough despite its capacity, so grabbing one while it's cheap is a smart move.
Crucial P3 Plus| 2TB | NVMe | PCIe 4.0 | 5,000MB/s read | 4,200MB/s write | $124
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