Save $100 on this huge 4TB WD SN5000 NVMe SSD from Amazon USA
A seriously excellent value option.
WD's SN5000 is a drive we rate quite highly from a price to performance standpoint, as it sits as one of the best value drives around for PC use that provides snappy reads and writes. From Amazon USA at the moment, we've seen this drive in its large 4TB flavour drop $100 to $200, giving you speedy storage for a lot less - it works out to just $50 per TB, in doing some quick maths.
The fact is that getting 4TB of storage is enough bulk storage for a particularly large Steam library, lots of local media files, apps and even more besides. Of course, if you're dealing with lots of high-res video capture at 4K, then it can fill up quite quickly. Nonetheless, it's good to know you've got so much storage to play around with if you do need it.
As well as offering a decent bit of space, the SN5000 is also quite a brisk SSD. We tested it this past Black Friday, and found its speeds to match its specs, with a tested read and write speed of 5456MB/s and 4151MB/s respectively. That's ever-so close to Sony's min-specs for PS5 drives, and you can technically use this drive in a PS5 without much of a performance penalty, as we've found in previous testing with much slower drives, although to use it in a PS5, you will need a heatsink. Luckily, these can be had rather affordably these days - we've recommended this $9 option for years.
Random performance, a better marker of actual load times, are decent too, with WD rating this drive for up to 690K IOPS for reads and a higher 900K IOPS for writes. This translates to zippy load times, as we found when loading to a late-game save in Baldur's Gate 3. Here, the 21 seconds to get to the main menu and 53 seconds to get into a save game are only a second off Samsung's 990 Evo Plus.
If you want to grab a snappy and capacious drive for PC or PS5 use for less, look no further than this large Amazon price cut on the 4TB WD SN5000.