For anyone who needs extra storage and doesn’t mind having a song in their head all day long, here’s a chance to save a few bucks on what’s already an aggressively priced SSD, the WD Blue 2. To. It is listed for $ 169.99 on eBay, with promo code IMBLUEDABADEE drop $ 5 at checkout.
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WD Blue 2TB SSD | $ 189.99 $ 164.99 on eBay (save $ 25)
This would make a great secondary player for your games, videos, and anything else that quickly fills up your primary player. It would also suffice as a primary drive, if you don’t need the extra speed of NVMe. If it does not apply automatically, use the promo code IMBLUEDABADEE at checkout for full discount.
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Western Digital lists this drive for $ 189.99 in its online store, up from $ 239.99. The reduced price is closer to what it is actually worth nowadays. So this deal isn’t a huge discount, but it’s a great price for 2TB of SSD storage, from a branded manufacturer, nothing less.
The caveat is that this is a 2.5 inch form factor SATA based SSD. You won’t get the same speed as an NVMe drive, especially the newer PCIe 4.0 models that push reads into 7,000MB / s territory, or the convenience of the M.2 form factor. But you get a lot of storage for the money.
Its specs are similar to Crucial’s MX500, which graces our list of the best SSDs for gaming, as a secondary drive. Western Digital rates sequential read and write speeds at 560MB / s and 530MB / s, respectively. These are near the upper limits of SATA-based SSDs.
While not up to par with NVMe SSDs, SATA-based models will make your system run faster and respond much faster than a hard drive, if you always use one of these as primary storage. Even for games, NVMe doesn’t yet deliver much tangible performance improvement over SATA, although that may change when developers start taking advantage of Microsoft’s DirectStorage API.
You will have to decide for yourself whether the SATA route makes sense. If the answer is yes, this is one of the best values for an SSD that straddles the row as mass storage.
