This is the essential Prime Day PC gaming upgrade I'd make today and it's just $60
WD Black SN850X | 1TB | NVMe | PCIe 4.0 | 7,300MB/s read | 6,300MB/s write | $79.99$59.99 at Newegg (save $20) This is our favorite SSD for gaming right now. Unlike the cheaper SN770, the SN850X encapsulates the best that PCIe 4.0 offers in terms of performance (see our review). That makes it a great fit for a boot drive with space to spare for your game library, and at this price, we're happy to pay the premium for its higher speed.Price check: Amazon $59.99 | Western Digital $59.99 | Best Buy $59.99
There's no getting away from it. If you're still hanging on to your beloved spinning platter hard drive because you cannot bear to move on from the anachronistic digital/mechanical hybrid, you're going to be in trouble as a PC gamer going forward. Starfield, one of the most hotly anticipated games of the year is making an SSD a solid minimum requirement.
An SSD is essential for your PC gaming future.
The WD Black SN850X is PC Gamer's pick as the best SSD for gaming right now, and you can grab the 1TB version for just $60 at Newegg today. Interestingly, that's the same price as Starfield.
It's as fast a PCIe 4.0 SSD as you could want, and if you were wondering whether to hold out for PCIe 5.0… well, my advice is don't.
Those drives are unbelievably hot, and while they post supreme synthetic transfer speeds, that means nothing in a real world scenario unless you're going from one PCIe 5.0 drive to another. In Windows and general gaming usage they're about the same speed as a good PCIe 4.0 drive like the WD Black SN850X up there.
Most of us already have an SSD in our system, likely as a boot drive, and maybe even with some older hard drives holding some ancient scrolls for posterity on our PCs. But you can always benefit
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