Best Buy is currently running a sale featuring some deep discounts on SSDs for gaming. This is useful because, and it's common knowledge now for most, but as games continue to become more demanding; they, in turn, require much more space. It's common now for some titles to take up 70GB, and that's when installing from the disc - and that's just on console!
PC gamers have long since adapted to having an all-digital library - thanks to the market dominance of Steam in the early 2000s, and the trends in recent years like Uplay and Epic Store. Even so, high-speed SSDs are needed now more than ever to keep up with current PC hardware. For a deeper dive, check out the best SSDs for gaming for more.
Unfortunately, there's no current way of installing an internal SSD into the PS5 or Xbox Series X, but there are, thankfully, a whole host of suitable external options on the market to keep your consoles ticking over. If the deals below aren't to your taste for the new consoles, then we have a full guide for the best PS5 SSDs which can help narrow your search. Bear in mind on PS5 and Series X you can play last-gen games straight from the external drives below and store new-gen titles before moving them back to the console to play them, which is much quicker than redownloading them.
- Check out the full SSD sale at Best Buy
It could be that you've decided none of these are for you or instead of thinking about PC-specific gear over stuff for the current generation of games consoles. We've made things easy, in that case, with our best gaming PC round-up. Keen to get some savings in on portable power? Check out our top picks for early Prime Day laptop deals.
