Today Amazon is offering a 2TB WD Black SN850X PCIe M.2 NVMe SSD for only $99.99. That's the best price we've seen since Amazon Prime Day. This SSD would make an exceptional (if not overkill) storage expansion drive for your PS5 console or as a blazing fast boot drive for your next gaming rig.
WD Black SN850X 2TB PCIe Gen4 M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD for $99.99
The SN850X is the latest generation of WD's flagship Black series M.2 SSDs. It's easily one of the fastest SSDs on the market and other similar performing SSDs currently sell for about $150. The SN850X's upgrades over the SN850 include newer flash chips (BiCS5 vs BiCS4) and an updated firmware, both of which offer improved sequential and random read/write speeds
What this all means is that the SN850X will perform exceedingly well as a boot drive for a gaming PC. For PC gamers, there's also an updated Game Mode 2.0 utility that's designed to tune the SSD for better performance during gaming sessions. The 2TB capacity means you won't have to worry as much about overfilling your drive full of games and apps. Save your large capacity traditional hard drives for storage.
The SN850X also makes for an excellent PS5 SSD. It is identical to the SN850P, which is the only officially licensed PS5 SSD. It fulfills almost all of Sony's requirements, like a minimum read speed of 5,500MB/s and a PCI-Express Gen4x4 interface. The only caveat is that this particular model doesn't include a built-in heatsink. That is easily remedied by picking up a cheap PS5 heatsink off Amazon for under $10.
If you're looking for more SSD storage upgrade options for your PS5 console, check out our best PS5 SSD deals of 2023. There are even less expensive options if you're not married to any brand.
