Samsung 8TB 2.5" SATA SSD | $750 | Amazon
It’s time to replace all your tiny, piecemeal storage with the weighty girth of the Costco of SSDs: the 8TB Samsung 870 QVO SATA III 2.5" SSD. Did you say eight terabytes? Yes, I did say that. And it’s in an SSD. That is a lot of storage even for a consumer hard drive, and this bad boy is going to get you faster reads and writes: up to 560MB/s in sequential reads and 530MB/s in sequential writes, in point of fact. For context, that would be between roughly three and five times as fast as your average 7200 RPM hard drive.
Just imagine what you could do with this thing! You could store around 1,600 5GB 1080p movies, for one thing. Or 150 days of FLAC music. Or just millions and millions of pictures of puppies. Listen, it’s your call, I’m just here to tell you that if you want a crazy big SSD, you can have one right now.
But okay, maybe you don’t want to spend all that; I get it! Or perhaps you just don’t have a need for that much storage or you just want a faster SSD. Well, for you, I picked out this Samsung 980 Pro 2TB PCIe NVMe SSD, which is currently discounted by $150 and will give you super fast storage—it may not be the fat bucket of data that 8TB drive is, but it will beat it in read/write speeds, with sequential reads up to a bonkers 7,000MB/s and sequential writes at 5,100MB/s, making this SSD perfect for gamers or people who just move massive amounts of data around frequently.
This article was originally published by Wes Davis on 11/24/2021, and was updated on 03/09/2022.