There’s little reason to skimp on storage these days, not when you can score big discounts on big and fast models from Samsung, SK hynix, XPG, and others.
There’s little reason to skimp on storage these days, even when it comes to outfitting your PC with a fast solid state drive (SSD). Why is that? Well, there’s been a steady decline in SSD prices over the past year due in part to a continued oversupply of NAND flash memory chips. Combine that with the fact that cutting-edge PCIe 5.0 SSDs are starting to trickle into the marketplace and you have a recipe for discounted PCIe 4.0 storage that’s incredibly fast for most tasks, and now cheaper than ever to boot. With that in mind, we’ve rounded up some top performers that are on sale.We’ll start with the 1TB XPG Gammix S70 Blade—it’s marked down to $54.99 on Amazon (save $75). This is the lowest price it’s ever been, and if you would have purchased this a year ago, it would have set you back nearly $130. That actually wasn’t a terrible price at the time.Check out our 1TB XPG Gammix S70 Blade SSD review for a litany of benchmarks and analysis. The short version is that this drive pairs Micron’s 176-layer triple-level cell (TLC) NAND flash memory with Innogrit’s IG5236 controller to deliver rated sequential read and write speeds of up to 7,400MB/s (6,100MB/s in the PS5) and 6,800MB/s, respectively. In our testing, this thing was a beast.Other capacities are on sale too, if you need more (or less) storage.
