Best Buy and Amazon have rolled out steep Memorial Day discounts on high-capacity and high-performance solid — state drives, offering unusually large markdowns that could lower upgrade costs for builders and power users. A roundup by Taylor Clemons, published May 25, 2026 at 8:22 a.m. PT, highlights headline examples: a SanDisk Desk Drive 8TB marked to $740 (62% off from $1,920) and a WD Black SN850X 4TB listed at $600 (65% off from $1,725).
The SanDisk Desk Drive 8TB is presented as a compact external SSD that connects over USB‑C, with quoted read/write performance up to 1,000 MB/s and plug‑and‑play compatibility for Windows and macOS. At its sale price the drive targets users who need a large — capacity portable archive or fast external scratch disk without changing an internal build.
The WD Black SN850X 4TB is an internal NVMe drive whose listing advertises up to 7,300 MB/s read and 6,600 MB/s write performance and an endurance rating up to 2,400 TB. Those figures place it in the high end for sustained — performance NVMe drives and make it a different — class option from USB‑C externals for gaming, workstation workloads and heavy write tasks.
Other notable discounts cited in the roundup include a Samsung T7 2TB offered at $385 (30% off from $550) and a Samsung 990 Pro 2TB with a $250 price reduction. Clemons describes these and similar listings across the two retailers as some of the steepest SSD price drops seen in months, with both external and internal categories affected.
The sales come against a backdrop of elevated component pricing tied to demand for AI, gaming and workstation builds; the roundup frames the Memorial Day cuts as partial relief for buyers who have faced higher costs for SSDs, RAM and GPUs. For shoppers deciding between options, the article stresses practical tradeoffs: interface (USB‑C vs NVMe), quoted sequential speeds and endurance ratings should be matched to whether you need portable capacity, maximum throughput, or long-term write durability.
Clemons’ roundup also warns that Memorial Day promotions can be short‑lived and recommends checking retailer pages promptly if you plan to buy; it points readers to related holiday deals across TVs, Apple products and laptops. The article’s timestamp is May 25, 2026 at 8:22 a.m. PT, and the listings cited show how price drops on both external 8TB drives and multi‑gig NVMe modules can meaningfully change upgrade budgets this season.
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