You might not know, but March 31 is World Backup and Storage Day. The quasi-holiday, invented by drive manufacturer Maxtor, aims to convince computer users to slow down and take a second to copy their important files to another drive, just in case the unthinkable happens. I've definitely been computing long enough to experience the horror of losing essential data due to a lost laptop or an unexpected power surge, so I'll be taking advantage this Sunday to run a complete archive of my drives.
Don't have the space? That's where the deals come in. We've scoured the major retailers for big discounts on internal and external HDDs and SSDs in a variety of sizes.
Let's lead off with a killer 50% price cut on a dependable and power-efficient internal SSD that's great for a budget laptop or desktop setup. Crucial makes dependable midrange drives, and getting an internal drive with sequential reads/writes up to 7,300/6,800MB/s at this price is tremendous. Featuring Microsoft DirectStorage to optimize texture loading for games, they can load up to 16% faster. Crucial even throws in one month of the Adobe Creative Cloud All-Apps plan for free when you register the drive.
Crucial T500 1TB Internal SSD for $72.49 (list price $143.99)
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Samsung 870 EVO 500GB Internal SSD for $62.99 (list price $84.99)
SanDisk 4TB Extreme Portable SSD for $259.99 (list price $359.99)
Seagate Starfield Special Edition 8TB External HDD for $189.99 (list price $239.99)
Western Digital 1TB P40 Game Drive SSD for $119.99 (list price $139.99)
Samsung T7 Shield External SSD for $179.99 (list price $249.99)
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