Today might be a good day to upgrade your desktop or laptop with fast solid state storage, as Amazon has discounted two top-tier Crucial drives to their lowest ever prices for today only. The Crucial BX500 is a 2.5-inch SATA drive that works well in desktops and older laptops, and at £40 for a 480GB model it offers excellent overall value. Meanwhile, the Crucial P1 is a faster NVMe M.2 SSD, ideal for newer machines, that’s been reduced £55 for a 500GB drive. These are cracking prices, so if you’re in the market they’re definitely worth a look.
Here’s a little bit about each one to give you some more context, based on our own testing of these drives and the current state of the industry.
The BX500 is a long-time Digital Foundry favourite that actually serves as the basis of some of our test rigs, thanks to its decent performance and very cheap asking price. While the BX500 isn’t the fastest SATA SSD on the market, it’s still way faster than mechanical hard drives thanks to read speeds up to 500MB/s and write speeds up to 550MB/s. This drive is ideal for making Windows start up super fast or adding more game storage space to your system, and can be used on almost any modern PC thanks to its 2.5-inch form factor and SATA connectors.
Source: Eurogamer Upgrade your PC with these discounted SATA and NVMe Crucial SSDs