Absolutely sure. You can save a major amount of cash (typically tons of of {dollars} on a excessive capability drive) throughout the huge Black Friday sale interval. The trick is to know what’s a superb deal, and what’s not. That’s the place we are available in: We’ve scoured respected on-line retailers, in search of demonstrably good {hardware} at legitimately good reductions.

Prices depend upon the same old avenue or retail value of the SSD mannequin—so kind of drive, its capability, and its velocity are all elements. Generally, anticipate to pay about $70 for a superb 1TB SATA or NVMe Gen 3 drive, and $100 for a 1TB NVMe Gen 4 drive. But the better guideline to only search for reductions of no less than 20 p.c or extra.

Nope! Unlike different merchandise, SSD distributors don’t produce particular fashions on the market intervals like Black Friday. These are the identical fashions you’d discover on a retail shelf or accessible on an internet site all through the remainder of the 12 months.

The finest Black Friday offers drop costs on SSDs from dependable manufacturers. A superb low cost begins round 15 to twenty p.c—and an important deal will probably be 30 p.c or extra. Typically, the larger bargains are higher-capacity SSDs (2TB or larger).

For the precise manufacturers to look at, follow identified names like Samsung, Crucial, SK Hynix, Western Digital, Kingston, and Sabrent. TeamGroup and PNY are additionally choices. The additional afield you go, the extra doubtless 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 ordinary candy spots are reductions on high-performing drives hardly ever on sale and steep value cuts on funds fashions. This 12 months we must always lastly see sizable reductions on high-capacity drives (2TB and up), too.

This is the large query. If you’re on a funds, 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 quick 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 sooner NVMe SSDs.)

For these attempting to resolve between NVMe Gen 3 and NVMe Gen 4 drives, most individuals can purchase a Gen 3 drive with a light-weight 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 pictures.

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

PCWorld assessments and evaluations new SSDs each month, so should you’re trying to see what we advocate with out regard to deal costs, examine our rankings of the best SSDs of 2022. But it’s not an both/or scenario: Some of our prime picks are on sale proper now!