{"id":263402,"date":"2025-10-08T06:12:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T06:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2155653"},"modified":"2025-10-08T06:12:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T06:12:40","slug":"the-best-prime-day-ssd-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-best-prime-day-ssd-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"The best Prime Day SSD deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/the-best-prime-day-ssd-deals.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s another strong selection of Prime Day SSD deals this year, but an old favourite is the best of the lot.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/digitalfoundry-best-ssd-for-gaming-7012\">Digital Foundry approved<\/a> Crucial MX500 is an excellent value SATA SSD &#8211; and it&#8217;s just got even better over Prime Day as both the 1TB and 2TB models have fallen to their lowest prices ever.<\/p>\n<p>Great for PC thanks to excellent random read and write performance, with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Sabrent-Custodia-Ottimizzato-Supporto-EC-UASP\/dp\/B00OJ3UJ2S?tag=eurgam-prime-21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">enclosure<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Sabrent-2-5-Inch-Adapter-Optimized-EC-SSHD-USB-3-0-SSD-SATA-2-5\/dp\/B011M8YACM?tag=eurgam-prime-21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SATA to USB cable<\/a> both of these can also be used with your games consoles. Of course, it&#8217;s important to point out that these can&#8217;t be used to play current-gen games on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/ps5-stock-where-to-buy-playstation-5\">PS5<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/xbox-series-x-s-stock-where-to-buy\">Xbox Series X<\/a>. They can be used for game storage, though, which should be a lot quicker than deleting and redownloading any games when you need to make space. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/prime-day-ssd-deals\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/prime-day-ssd-deals\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s another strong selection of Prime Day SSD deals this year, but an old favourite is the best of the lot. The Digital Foundry approved Crucial MX500 is an excellent value SATA SSD &#8211; and it&#8217;s just got even better over Prime Day as both the 1TB and 2TB models have fallen to their lowest prices ever. Great for PC thanks to excellent random read and write performance, with an enclosure or SATA to USB cable both of these can also be used with your games consoles. Of course, it&#8217;s important to point out that these can&#8217;t be used to play current-gen games on PS5 or Xbox Series X. They can be used for game storage, though, which should be a lot quicker than deleting&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-best-prime-day-ssd-deals\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":263403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The best Prime Day SSD deals | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There&#039;s another strong selection of Prime Day SSD deals this year, but an old favourite is the best of the lot.The Digital Foundry approved Crucial MX500\" \/>\n<meta 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