Feast your eyes on this set of solid SSD deals
One for you, and for you, and for you!
Alright, step right up, step right up... let's have some more SSD deals for you. Today I've got a selection of three featuring some great value options in a range of formats.
First up is this excellent deal from Amazon on the Samsung T7 which is largely regarded as a solid portable SSD, and one I've had my eye on to replace an aging WD My Passport Ultra portable hard drive I've had for nearly ten years. In terms of its speeds, while it isn't going to be up there with the best gaming SSDs in the world, this isn't what this drive isn't designed for. Speeds of up to 1050 MB/s or 1000 MB/s are still plenty respectable for a drive powered by USB 3.2 Gen.2 and your choice of either USB-A or USB-C connectivity - Samsung bundles both in the box so you can have the choice, which is handy.
That choice of connectivity also makes this a drive suitable for use in a wide range of devices, be it on PCs or laptops, Windows or MacOS, or plugged into your TV for accessing media, as well as in a games console. For consoles though, the extent to which you can use the T7 will depend on which generation of console you're using. For current-gen offerings like the PS5 and Xbox Series S/X, you'll only be able to store games on the T7 as it isn't as quick as the internal SSD, while for last-gen consoles like the Xbox One and PS4, you'll be perfectly fine installing games to the drive and playing them off of it. On the point of this, 2TB is also a decent bit of capacity for storing everything from games to media on, and more besides.
Up next is this excellent value Western Digital Green SN350 NVMe SSD, which you can nab for £27 - a good deal for a 480GB unit. For what really is peanuts when it comes to solid state storage, the SN350 is a perfectly respectable drive for adding more storage to a new system on the cheap, or perhaps more usefully, speeding up an older system. WD rates the SN350 to offer speeds of up to 2400MB/s reads and 1650MB/s writes, which are going to provide a significant boost relative to an older mechcanical hard drive you may be upgrading from. As this is DRAM-less chances are that you may not be able to use it as a boot drive, but it can still be used for accessig any files you have speedily. 480GB of storage is also pretty decent for giving you a good amount of space.
And last, but by no means least is this Amazon deal on the Crucial BX500 - a SATA SSD that's become a fan favourite alongside the likes of the Kingston A400 for being an affordable and reliable choice for speeding up an older system.
This particular BX500 is a 480GB model, which should provide you with enough space for installing Windows, for instance, as well as for general use, too. Moreover, as this is a SATA SSD, it'll also be handy for upgrading older systems that may not have a spare M.2 slot for you to plug in a drive. The move back to SATA means this BX500 isn't as fast as an NVMe drive, with speeds of up to 540MB/s, but the fact is that it'll still be a fair bit faster than the mechanical hard drive that you're potentially upgrading from.
I'll be surprised if you don't find a use for at least one of these SSDs, given there are choices here for SATA or NVMe, or external or internal drives. What's more, they're all pretty affordable, so even if you pick one up to use down the line, it's still worth a gander.