A 2TB Western Digital SN850x, a near top of the line SSD, is $99 at Best Buy.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-black-sn850x-2tb-internal-ss...

Lots of <100 2TB ssds on Samsung / Intel / Micron / etc. products.

https://slickdeals.net/newsearch.php?q=2tb&searcharea=deals&...

> Intel

Note: Intel is literally obsolete in terms of Flash. Intel sold all of their SSDs to SK Hynix, who is now selling those SSD-designs under the name of "Solidigm"

So if you want a "modern Intel" SSD, look for Solidigm. Intel got out of this race in December 2021, so no "new" SSD (2022 or 2023 era) is from "Intel" branding, only "Solidigm".

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I'm more of a Crucial / Micron fan myself, but Samsung, Crucial, and WD (aka: Sandisk was bought out by WD) are all 2TB for under $100.

But yes, I'm talking about the big-names, with high-performance (7000MBps+ suitable for PS5). The good stuff. GPUs, CPUs, HDDs, and Motherboards have also come down in price. Its entirely across the board though the SSD market is where its most obvious.

I have an ADATA 2TB in a PS5 and my work machine. These aren't fly by nights.

They can be had for sub $100. Even the much lauded Samsung 980 Pro is dipping close enough to the same.

Assembling a new home PC, picked up a 2tb Samsung 980 Pro with a heatsink recently for $129 (I think it was $113 without the heatsink at that moment).

DDR5 ram is finally starting to get price reasonable as well.

I got a 2TB 980 pro with heat sink from Bestbuy last week for $99. I was astounded. No brainer upgrade for the PS5

be sure to upgrade the firmware, 980 pros are known to die after a while.

dunno why people keep paying this premium for them, there's other better options for less money, like HP FX900 or Team Cardea these days. And those companies have a track record of reliability and not... whatever Samsung is doing for the last 10 years.

Like honestly these days Samsung rates below stuff like Sabrent Rocket for me. You're better off picking a random other product from a big-name brand with equivalent specs as long as it's not a Samsung... the "SSD monty hall problem" if you will. Simply by switching, you improve your odds.

I picked up a 2TB 980Pro and installed it into an external USB-C chassis from SSK. I now have extremely fast external storage to edit from on the go without filling my internal system drive with crap media footage. At ~$100, that enough to have one per project and avoids the "which drive" question. It's now, get the ProjectX drive, or get the ProjectY drive. It's the happiest I've been as a mobile editor.