In a phrase, sure. You can save a major amount of cash (typically a whole lot 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 great deal, and what’s not. That’s the place we are available in: We’ve scoured respected on-line retailers, on the lookout for demonstrably good {hardware} at legitimately good reductions.

Prices rely upon the same old road or retail value of the SSD mannequin—so kind of drive, its capability, and its pace are all elements. Generally, anticipate to pay about $45 to $50 for a great 1TB SATA or NVMe Gen 3 drive, and $75 to $80 for a 1TB NVMe Gen 4 drive. But the better guideline to simply search for reductions of at the very least 20 % or extra, particularly in the event you’re on the lookout for high-capacity laborious 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 out there on an internet site all through the remainder of the 12 months.

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

For the particular manufacturers to observe, follow 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 typically discover a number of drives from a single vendor on sale. The common candy spots are reductions on high-performing drives not often on sale and steep value cuts on finances 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 finances, 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 type 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 light-weight coronary heart. Unless you’re doing frequent giant file transfers (assume many GB at a time), you’ll get a notable increase 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 try our guide on choosing an SSD for extra particulars about every kind of solid-state drive.

PCWorld exams and opinions new SSDs each month, so in the event you’re seeking to see what we advocate with out regard to deal costs, examine our rankings of the best SSDs of 2023. But it’s not an both/or state of affairs: Some of our prime picks are on sale proper now!