Best SSD and Storage Deals for Black Friday 2026

The headline deal of this guide, and the one with the cleanest corroboration. A live aggregator check on October 25 put the 9100 PRO 2TB at $399, 41% off its $679.97 list, and the same figure was still showing on the October 27 check — while Best Buy lists the same drive at $419.99, so state the retailer with the price and confirm at checkout. The drive itself is Samsung's Gen5 flagship: 14,700 MB/s sequential reads, a heatsink version available, and the strongest sustained-write performance in Samsung's consumer line. The caveat is the list price: $679.97 is high, so frame this as the best current Gen5 price, not a historic low. You also need a PCIe 5.0 M.2 slot and a board that can cool it — on a Gen4-only machine, the 990 PRO below is the better buy.

The most important card in this guide, because it is the one other pages get wrong. The 990 PRO 2TB is not $389.99, and it is certainly not the $169.99 that several "tested" roundups still print. Four independent readings from October 22–26 — a deals roundup updated October 23, a retailer roundup updated October 12, a price-history record for October 25, and a review-page price stamped October 26, 18:45 UTC — all agree on $409.99, down from $639.99. The $389.99 figure comes from a single aggregator page that still showed it on October 27 and has not updated since the price moved. Do not pull this price from that aggregator. The drive itself needs no introduction: 7,450 MB/s reads, 2,400 TBW endurance at 2TB in Samsung's rating class, and the default recommendation in virtually every Gen4 roundup. It is also the sensible PS5 drive in heatsink form — see the PS5 box below.

Separately reported on October 22 as a real Amazon cut, the 990 PRO 4TB at $799.90 works out to about 20 cents per GB — the best $/GB in the internal-drive set — with the same 7,450 MB/s reads as the 2TB model and single-sided construction that fits laptops and compact builds. This is the card for the "install everything" gamer: modern titles routinely exceed 150GB, and a 4TB drive holds a whole library without the uninstall shuffle. The discount is a genuine 27% off the $1,099.99 list, not a list-price trick, and the October 22 report is corroborated by the same aggregator set as the 2TB model. One watch-out: 4TB drives are the first to sell out in a sale wave, so if this is your pick, do not wait for November 20 hoping for a deeper cut in a rising market.

The cheapest 2TB internal drive in this guide at $366.50, 37% off its $579.99 list, confirmed holding across the October 25 and 27 aggregator checks. The EVO Plus sits one tier below the 990 PRO: still a Gen4 NVMe drive with strong everyday and gaming performance, but without the PRO's sustained-write headroom, so heavy video editors and capture-card users should spend the extra $43 on the 990 PRO 2TB. For gaming and general use, the difference is invisible — load times are governed by random-read performance and the game engine, not by peak sequential writes. This is the value pick of the Samsung set, and the card to send to anyone who asks "just tell me which 2TB drive to buy" without a PS5 or workstation caveat.

The portable pick of the guide, and the best $/TB in the portable set: the X10 Pro 1TB at $145.99 on Best Buy, unchanged across the October 25, 26 and 27 checks, with the 4TB version at $524.99 in the same tracker set. It reads at up to 2,100 MB/s over USB-C, which is fast enough to run games directly from the drive on a laptop or handheld, and it is small and rugged enough to live in a pocket. The $/TB comparison is what sells it: roughly $146/TB against the Samsung T9's roughly $232–$288/TB in the same mid-October tracker snapshot. Note the retailer: $145.99 is a Best Buy figure, so the Amazon search link here is the route to the matching listing, not a guarantee of the same price — confirm at checkout.

The budget Gen4 entry of the set at $156.99, 27% off its $215.99 list on the October 25 aggregator check. The NV3 is Kingston's value Gen4 drive: it delivers the Gen4 experience — fast boots, fast game loads, fast file copies — at a price that undercuts every Samsung in this guide at 1TB, but it does so with a lower endurance rating and a DRAM-less design that shows under sustained heavy writes. For a gaming laptop upgrade or a second PC, neither limitation matters in practice. For a workstation drive that ingests video all day, spend more. The honest framing: this is a good drive at a fair current price, not a steal — and in a rising market, a fair current price on a budget drive is still worth acting on.

This card carries a warning, and it is the reason it is in the guide rather than the watchlist. The aggregator listed the Crucial T500 1TB (no heatsink) at $102.99 on October 25 — a strong price for a well-reviewed Gen4 drive with a heatsink version that is a known PS5 fit. But a separate tracker page listed a third-party $299.99 offer for the same SKU on the same day. That is a price conflict, not a typo, and it means the $102.99 figure depends on which seller and which variant the listing shows. Before you buy: confirm the seller is the one offering $102.99, confirm whether the heatsink version is the one you need (for PS5, it is), and do not pay $299.99 for a drive that sells at $102.99 elsewhere. If the listing does not resolve cleanly, the NV3 above is the safer budget buy.

Flagged clearly, because the flag is the point: this is a Renewed drive, not a new one. The aggregator listed the WD_BLACK SN770 2TB (Renewed) at $249.98, 43% off its $440 list, on October 25. A renewed drive has been returned, inspected and resold; it is not the same product as a new SN770, and its $249.98 should be compared with other renewed prices, never with new-drive prices. That said, the SN770 is a well-regarded Gen4 drive, and $249.98 for 2TB renewed is genuinely cheaper than any new 2TB drive in this guide. The buyer for this card is someone with a second PC, a media machine or a backup rig — not someone buying the one drive their main gaming PC depends on. Check the renewed seller's return policy before checkout, and run a full health check (SMART data, terabytes written) on arrival.

The console pick of the guide. The WD_BLACK D30 Game Drive 2TB is a portable SSD built for game libraries — rugged casing, USB-C, and speeds that make it a genuine game drive rather than a cold-storage archive. The price is a range, not a point, and that is honest: aggregator pages in mid-October showed $192.00–$223.96 across different sellers and dates, so the deal here is "around $200 for a 2TB game drive", not a single figure. Verify the seller before checkout, and remember the console rule: on PS5, an external drive stores PS4 games and archives PS5 games but cannot run PS5 games from external storage — for that you need an internal Gen4 drive with a heatsink, as in the PS5 box below. On Xbox, external drives play Xbox One and older titles directly and store Series X|S titles for transfer.

The big portable pick, with a model warning attached: the $427.49–$449.99 range across aggregator pages is for the older SanDisk Extreme Portable model, not the current one, and the price reflects that. At roughly $107–$112/TB, it undercuts the X10 Pro's $/TB at 4TB scale and gives you a whole media library in a pocket-sized, rugged drive. The range, again, is across sellers and dates — verify the seller and confirm you are looking at the older model before checkout, because the current model at the same capacity costs more. For photographers and videographers carrying RAW libraries and 4K projects, this is the card; for gamers, the X10 Pro 1TB or the D30 above are the better-shaped picks.

Included deliberately, and labelled honestly: $769 is not a deal. The aggregator listed the SN850X 4TB with heatsink at $769 on October 25 with no discount shown, and that figure is the current-market anchor for the flagship WD drive — the price every other 4TB flagship price should be judged against. It is here for two reasons. First, it kills the $229 trap: the same trackers that list the SN850X 1TB at around $235 put this 4TB heatsink model at $769, so a 4TB flagship at $229 is implausible on its face. Second, it is the honest "wait" card: if you want a WD flagship rather than a Samsung one, $769 today versus a probable November cut is a genuine decision, and this guide's advice is to wait unless you need the drive now. The drive itself is excellent — 7,300 MB/s reads, a heatsink that makes it PS5-ready out of the box, and WD's Game Mode — but excellence at full price is not a deal, and this guide does not pretend otherwise.

The bulk pick of the guide, and the card that most needs its warning read. A mid-October price index recorded the My Passport 4TB at $129.99 as a 90-day low — but that reading is from October 13, and no fresh confirmation of $129.99 has appeared since. The October 26–27 checks instead found conflicting variant prices: the black model (WDBPKJ0040BBK-WESN) recorded at $180 on Amazon US on October 26, with the Mac navy variant at $229–$239 and a marketplace listing at $264.99. This guide therefore does NOT print $129.99 as a current price. The honest statement is: the black 4TB model was $180 on October 26, variants differ by $50 or more, and you must confirm the exact model on the listing before checkout. As a product, the My Passport remains the best-selling portable drive for a reason — 4TB of pocket storage for archives, backups and game libraries you do not play daily — but it is a hard drive, with hard-drive speeds, and it belongs in the archive role, not the active-game role.