Cheapest SSDs per Terabyte

SSD pricing moves week to week, so the ranked table on this page is the answer — it pulls live Amazon US listings and sorts purely by price per TB. As a structural note: 1–2 TB drives typically hold the best price-per-TB position; 500 GB models carry a per-TB premium, and 4 TB+ drives are still slightly above the 2 TB sweet spot on a per-TB basis. Check the table rather than relying on a figure from this text.

NVMe and SATA have converged to near-parity at 1–2 TB. The gap depends on the specific drives and the week. Because NVMe is 3–5× faster and the price difference is small, NVMe is the better default unless your system lacks an M.2 slot. The ranking on this page shows both interfaces side by side so you can see the current spread.

QLC (4 bits per cell) is cheaper per TB than TLC (3 bits per cell) but has lower endurance and slower sustained write speeds — because it writes quickly to a small SLC cache, then slows considerably when that cache fills. For a secondary storage drive used mostly for reads (game storage, media archive, secondary data), QLC is fine. For a boot drive handling constant OS writes, prefer TLC for more consistent performance.

Established brands (Samsung, WD, Crucial, Kingston, SK Hynix) have consistent firmware quality and honor warranty claims reliably. No-name brands at extreme discounts can be fine, but RMA experiences vary. For a drive storing irreplaceable data, the warranty support of a known brand is worth the small premium. For a secondary game storage drive, the risk calculus is different.