In a phrase, sure. You can save a big sum of money (generally tons of of {dollars} on a excessive capability drive) in the course of the large Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale interval. The trick is to know what’s a very good deal, and what’s not. That’s the place we are available: We’ve scoured respected on-line retailers, in search of demonstrably good {hardware} at legitimately good reductions.

Prices depend upon the same old road or retail value of the SSD mannequin—so sort of drive, its capability, and its velocity are all components. Generally, count on to pay about $45 to $50 for a very good 1TB SATA or NVMe Gen 3 drive, and $75 to $80 for a 1TB NVMe Gen 4 drive. But the simpler guideline to simply search for reductions of no less than 20 % or extra, particularly in the event you’re in search of high-capacity exhausting disk drives.

Nope! Unlike different merchandise, storage distributors don’t produce particular fashions on the market durations like Black Friday/Cyber Monday. These are the identical fashions you’d discover on a retail shelf or accessible on a web site all through the remainder of the 12 months.

The finest Black Friday offers drop costs on SSDs and HDDs from dependable manufacturers. A great low cost begins round 15 to twenty %—and an excellent deal can be 30 % or extra. Typically, the larger bargains are higher-capacity SSDs (4TB or increased).

For the particular manufacturers to observe, persist with recognized names like Samsung, Crucial, Corsair, SK Hynix, Western Digital, Kingston, and Sabrent. Solidigm, TeamGroup, and PNY are additionally choices. The additional afield you go, the extra probably you’ll find yourself with underperforming (aka sluggish) drives.

Pay consideration to the mannequin, as properly. You can usually discover a number of drives from a single vendor on sale. The ordinary candy spots are reductions on high-performing drives not often on sale and steep value cuts on price range fashions. This 12 months we’re lastly seeing sizable reductions on high-capacity drives (4TB and up), too.

This is the large query. If you’re on a price range, and have a laptop computer or a PC that has house for a 2.5-inch drive, a humble SATA SSD will already really feel like a lightning-fast improve from a spinning-platter (HDD) boot drive. (SATA SSDs additionally exist within the gumstick M.2 dimension, however this 12 months’s finest gross sales for that kind issue are the quicker NVMe SSDs.)

For these attempting to determine between NVMe Gen 3 and NVMe Gen 4 drives, most individuals should buy a Gen 3 drive with a lightweight coronary heart. Unless you’re doing frequent massive file transfers (suppose many GB at a time), you’ll get a notable enhance in efficiency over a SATA drive with out spending a ton of additional money. If you’re constructing a system or shopping for for the very lengthy haul, although, a Gen 4 drive is an effective funding. File sizes will solely climb over time for sport installs, movies, and photographs. If you’re in want of absolute blistering speeds for heavy workloads and transfers, then an NVMe Gen 5 drive could also be finest for you. But that gained’t be most individuals.

Still having bother deciding? You can take a look at our guide on choosing an SSD for extra particulars about every sort of solid-state drive.

PCWorld checks and evaluations new SSDs each month, so in the event you’re trying to see what we suggest with out regard to deal costs, test our rankings of the best SSDs of 2023. But it’s not an both/or scenario: Some of our high picks are on sale proper now!