This early 4th of July PS5 deal bags you one of our favorite SSDs for a record low price

Crucial X8 SSD — (Image credit: Crucial)

This early 4th of July PS5 deal is a sure-fire way to solve any storage concerns you have in one fell swoop - and do it for a lowest ever price.

Right now, you can grab the Crucial X8 2TB external PS5 SSD for $189.99 at Amazon (was $220). This equals the drive's lowest ever price that we've only ever seen three times since the product launched back in 2020, and so represents the best possible opportunity to pick it up and store all your PS5 games, and store and play your PS4 games. For full disclosure, the drive has hung around at this price for a bit, but it was only back in late March that it was nearly $200, and in February that it was at its full price.

Given the size and remaining relevance - and attraction, of course - of that latter library, a PS5 external hard drive is the perfect solution to having multiple games within arms reach, while also having a safe place to store the PS5 games you want to be able to play when you're ready to.

While it might not match the performance of those internal drives vying to be the best PS5 SSD money can buy, a drive like the Crucial X8 is one of the closest solutions you can get, offering speeds of around the 1,000MB/s mark.

Today's best early 4th of July PS5 SSD deal

More of today's best internal PS5 SSD deals

On the lookout for a PS5 SSD deal that's for the inside of the machine? Then check out the latest prices below which represent the lowest prices available on some of the top dogs wherever you are in the world.

If you're scoping out the best means to enhance your PS5 setup, then don't forget to check out the best TVs for PS5, best PS5 headsets, and best monitors for PS5 too.

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Rob is the Managing Editor of sister site, TechRadar Gaming, and has been in the games and tech industry for nearly a decade. Prior to a stint as Gaming Editor at WePC in 2023, Rob was the Commissioning Editor for Hardware at GamesRadar+ for two years, and was on the hardware team for more than four years, since its inception in late 2018. He is also a writer on games and has had work published over the last nine years or so at the likes of Eurogamer, RockPaperShotgun, PCGN, and more. He is also a keen golfer and reviewer of golf watches and tech, and a qualified landscape and garden designer, the latter enabling him to be an expert on the virtual landscapes and environments of games.