The Best SSD for Gaming Is on Sale for Prime Day, But the Price Goes Up After Tonight

For the final hours of October Prime Day, Amazon is offering an excellent deal on the best gaming SSD. Right now you can get the blazing fast Samsung 990 Pro 2TB PCIe 4.0 M.2 solid state drive (SSD) for only $139.99. This is the lowest price we've seen this year, but you better jump on this deal soon because we expect it to expire at midnight PT tonight. 4TB and 1TB models are also on sale. The 990 Pro is one of the fastest PCIe 4.0 SSDs on the market. It's compatible with the PlayStation 5 console and it comes preinstalled with a low-profile heatsink.

Prime Day Deal: Samsung 990 Pro PS5 SSD with Heatsink

The 990 Pro is Samsung's fastest PCIe 4.0 M.2 solid state drive. Compared to the 980 Pro that it replaces, the 990 Pro has been updated with Samsung's newest Pascal controller and 7th gen TLC NAND flash chips which are manufactured in-house. It boasts sequential speeds of 7,450MB/s read and 6,900MB/s write and random speeds of 1400K read and 1550K IOPS write, which is up to 50% faster per watt than the 980 Pro. The 990 Pro will be one of your best options as a boot drive for your gaming PC, and the 2TB model is currently the best compromise between capacity and price point.

For console gamers, the Samsung 990 Pro also happens to be one of the best SSDs for the PlayStation 5. In fact, performance-wise, it's overkill since the stock PS5 SSD only has speeds of up to 5,600MB/s. This 990 Pro comes pre-equipped with a low-profile aluminum heatsink that's guaranteed to fit in both the PS5 and PS5 Slim consoles. It's also backed by a 5 year warranty; by the time your warranty runs out, you might have already moved onto the PS6.

If you want to compare this deal with other PlayStation 5 compatible options, here's a list of our favorite PS5 SSDs. If you're looking for deals on other PS5 accessories, check out the best Prime Day PS5 deals going on right now. If you don't yet own a PS5 console, you're in luck. The PS5 Slim is currently on sale for Prime Day, and Sony recently announced a more powerful PS5 Pro that is currently up for preorder and ships out next month. For all other deals, head over to our Prime Day megapost to see our cherry-picked list of the best deals we've found. You better hurry, though, because we expect most of these deals to go back up in price after midnight.

Are October Prime Day Deals as good as Black Friday?

Although Black Friday is still the overall best time to buy just about anything every year, October Prime Day is just as good as Black Friday for many different items. Amazon's own devices that are currently on sale likely won't go much lower in price. The same goes for most of the deals we've featured on this list, which are at some of their lowest prices of the year so far. If you are unsure whether or not you're getting a good deal on anything, you can reference specific products on the CamelCamelCamel website to see historical Amazon pricing.

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Eric Song is the IGN commerce manager in charge of finding the best gaming and tech deals every day. When Eric isn't hunting for deals for other people at work, he's hunting for deals for himself during his free time.