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Solid state drives have gotten a lot cheaper in recent years, and you can now often find super-speedy PCIe NVMe drives in relatively affordable notebooks.
Portable SSD prices have also been dropping — right now you can pick up a 500GB portable SSD for around $90 or a 1TB version for $167.
But you know what’s even cheaper? Hard drives. If you don’t care if your backup device is slower and less durable than an SSD, you can pick up a Seagate 5TB portable hard drive from Staples for just $80 when you use the coupon 74883 at checkout.
Here are some of the day’s best deals.
Storage
- SanDisk 500GB USB 3.1 portable SSD for $90 – Amazon
- SanDisk 1TB USB 3.1 portable SSD for $167 – Amazon
- Samsung T5 500GB USB 3.1 portable SSD for $90 – Amazon
- Samsung T5 1TB USB 3.1 portable SSD for $170 – Amazon
- Seagate 5TB USB 3.0 portable hard drive for $80 – Staples (w/coupon: 74883)
- Seagate 6TB USB 3.0 external desktop hard drive for $100 – Newegg
Computers
- Refurb MSI gaming PCs for $660 and up – Woot
- Asus ZenBook UX490 14″ laptop w/Core i7-8550U/16GB/512GB/Win10 Pro for $899 – Asus (via eBay)
Docking stations
Staples let me go through the entire checkout process before telling me the 5TB seagate harddrive for $80 was out of stock. Curious if anyone else has better luck.