Crucial has slashed the price of its high capacity 2TB solid state drive, the BX500, to a mere £134.29 for Amazon Prime Day.
That’s a saving of £50.50 (or 27%), but what's most important here is the fact that this is the cheapest SSD per capacity we’ve ever seen.
At just over £67 per TB, it is outrageously cheap for a flash-based storage device - just over twice the price per TB of an equivalent hard disk drive.
The drive is a DRAMless model, uses Micron’s 96L TLC NAND chip and a Silicon Motion SM2259XT controller, and also ships with a three-year warranty.
However, bear in mind there are some caveats when buying an SSD at the lower end of the market.
This is a SATA drive, so will be useful for desktop PCs, workstations and larger laptops that have a free 2.5-inch bay available. It is not an M.2 SSD, so don’t expect to use it in thin and light laptops, and its performance (about 500MBps/540MBps in write/read speeds) is slow compared to a modern SSD.
As always, it is advisable to secure your data by backing it up to an offsite cloud storage service, even if the drive does offer award-winning True Image software.
TechRadar is rounding up all the top deals over the Prime Day sales period, and we’ve put all the best Prime Day deals in an easy-to-navigate article to help you find the bargains you’re looking for.
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