We thought we’d seen the last of the mind-blowing SSD deals for a bit after the Black Friday SSD bonanza, but we’ve just spotted another bargain if you’re looking to expand your gaming PC storage to install more games. This Samsung 980 Pro gaming SSD deal enables you to pick up a 2TB PCIe 4.0 drive for just $119.99, from both Best Buy, saving you $50 over the usual price.
I’ve been using this PCIe 4.0 Samsung drive for several years in my gaming PC now, and I’ve found it to be plenty fast enough for my needs, plus this 2TB drive will give you lots of capacity for the latest super-size game installs as well. We gave it a score of 8/10 in our Samsung 980 Pro review, thanks to its superb performance for the money, earning it a place on our guide to the best gaming SSD, and it’s now even cheaper.
In our tests, the Samsung 980 Pro managed a sequential read speed of 6,866MB/s, making it nearly twice as fast as the best PCIe 3.0 drives, including the basic Samsung 980. It’s not as fast as the flagship, as we found in our Samsung 990 Pro review, but there’s not much in it. The write speed isn’t quite so quick, at 4,913MB/s, but this is still well in front of any PCIe 3.0 drive. Neither result is as fast as the latest PCIe 5.0 drives, of course, but you can’t complain when you’re getting 2TB of storage space for just $119.99.
We found this drive gets quite hot when it’s running at full load, but it’s also quite easy to keep in check with a standard heatsink. I’ve just been using a standard PCIe 4.0 SSD heatsink on my motherboard to keep my 980 Pro cool, and it does the job fine.
To take advantage of this deal, click on this link here to buy it from Best Buy, or on this link here to buy it from the Samsung web store, where it’s the same price. Weirdly, Best Buy describes the deal as a $100 discount, while Samsung says it’s only a $10 discount, but I’d take both figures with a grain of salt.
The 2TB Samsung 980 Pro first launched with a huge price of $429.99 in 2021, and it still cost over $250 until the middle of this year, and has been hovering around the $170 point since (it currently costs $169 on Amazon). Either way, $119.99 is a great price for this 2TB PCIe 4.0 SSD.
You’ll need a 4x PCIe 4.0 or PCIe 5.0 M.2 slot on your motherboard to run this drive at full speed, and while it will also run in a PCIe 3.0 M.2 slot, it will be slower as a result as it won’t have enough bandwidth at its disposal. If you’ve never upgraded your storage before, check out our guide on how to install an SSD, where we take you through the whole process step by step