Samsung 870 EVO 2TB SSD Is 52% Off, Slice This Deal Any Way You Like and You’re Still Saving Hundreds

This article features deals sourced directly by Gizmodo and produced independently of the editorial team. We may earn a commission when you buy through links on the site. This latest Amazon deal is a great reminder to not stare a gift horse in the mouth. Amazon’s selling the Samsung 870 EVO 2TB SATA SSD for $495, which is a strong deal considering what the prices of memory and storage have been through lately. Now, is the discount the 52% as shown by Amazon against a list price of $1,040? Or is it a somewhat more modest markdown from the $880 price for the 870 EVO as listed on Samsung’s site? Answer — it doesn’t matter, because $495 for a quick and reliable internal drive is a great price regardless. The 870 EVO maxes out the SATA III interface at 560 MB/s sequential read and 530 MB/s sequential write. Those numbers represent the ceiling for the SATA protocol, so this isn’t a drive you’d buy for a new build that supports PCIe NVMe — it would bottleneck storage performance significantly. It makes more sense in machines that lack an M.2 slot, NAS arrays that run SATA drives in RAID configurations, or as a secondary storage volume in a desktop that already has an NVMe boot drive. The