If you're running out of storage, then now might be the best time to treat yourself to a storage upgrade with this gaming SSD deal from Crucial. The Crucial T500 gaming SSD with a heatsink now costs just $79.99 on Amazon, a good price for a drive that delivers a decent amount of performance, and one that saves you a whopping 49% on the MSRP.
It can be hard to pick out the Samsung 990 Pro, our top PCIe 4.0 drive recommendation, and all for less than $80.
When you're looking at an SSD, especially a PCIe 4.0 NVMe drive, your drive speeds are one of the biggest factors to consider. With this Crucial T500, you'd be getting sequential read and write speeds of 7,300MB/s and 6,800MB/s respectively.
To get anything significantly faster than that, you'd need a more expensive PCIe 5.0 drive such as the Crucial T750, an SSD that's currently double the price on Amazon. This drive is (almost) as fast as it gets, but with a price tag that remains much more affordable than a PCIe 5.0 upgrade.
The Crucial T500 comes in a variety of storage options, from 500GB to 4TB, but only the 1TB and 2TB drives are in stock on Amazon right now. If 1TB isn't enough, then the discount on the 2TB drive isn't too bad, either – you can grab it for $132.99, down from $209.99, and save 37%. Only the model with the heatsink is worth it at these prices, too, as the model without has a higher price for both capacity options currently in stock.
These prices won't stick around forever, so grab yourself the 1TB drive from Amazon using this link here while you can, or take advantage of the deal on the 2TB drive using this link instead.
If you're unsure how to go about installing new internal storage, you can check out our best external SSD for gaming shortlist, where we take you through a number of USB storage alternatives across a range of budgets.
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