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The original 1TB WD Black SN850 is now nearly the same price as the 2TB WD Black SN850.

 The original 1TB WD Black SN850 is now nearly the same price as the 2TB WD Black SN850.

It's one of the best PCIe 4.0 SSDs available, and the price of this 2TB drive demonstrates how well the storage market is doing.

A 2TB SSD for $250 isn't a bad deal when it's a fairly standard solid state drive. But when it's one of the best PCIe 4.0 SSDs available—the WD Black SN850(opens in new tab)—it's a steal. The 2TB version is available on Amazon for $262(opens in new tab), but Newegg is currently offering the SN850 2TB for $250(opens in new tab) with the 93XST63 promo code.

This is almost as low as the 2TB version has ever been, with a single day back in March when it dropped temporarily to $244, making this one to definitely snag if you're in the market for more speedy storage space.

This is almost as low as the 2TB version has ever been, with a single day back in March when it dropped temporarily to $244, so if you're looking for more speedy storage space, this is a must-buy. Aren't we all, at the end of the day?

Prices for SSDs have dropped significantly in the last year, particularly for these first-generation PCIe 4.0 drives. However, while faster SSDs are now available on the market, owing largely to the latest Phison controller, the SN850's rated read/write speeds remain competitive.

Whereas we used to recommend that you use a low capacity, fast SSD as your primary boot drive, with a standard hard drive or SATA SSD as your high capacity storage, we're finally at the point where even the fastest PCIe drives are as cheap as old SATA SSDs.

It's also worth noting that the 1TB version of the SN850 had an MSRP of $229.99, so the fact that you can now get twice the capacity for just $20 more shows what a great state the storage market is in right now.

So, while it may still be prohibitively expensive to purchase a GPU capable of handling the most recent games, it is no longer prohibitively expensive to find the space to house these colossal storage hogs (opens in new tab).

Dave has been playing video games since the days of Zaxxon and Lady Bug on the Colecovision, as well as code books for the Commodore Vic 20 (Death Race 2000!). He built his first gaming PC when he was 16 and finished bug-fixing the Cyrix-based system a year later. When he threw it out the window. Many decades ago, he began writing for Official PlayStation Magazine and Xbox World, then moved on to PC Format full-time, followed by PC Gamer, TechRadar, and T3, among others. He's back, writing about the nightmare graphics card market, CPUs with more cores than sense, gaming laptops hotter than the sun, and SSDs bigger than a Cybertruck.
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