Samsung’s 1TB 860 Evo is Amazon’s Black Friday SSD deal of the day, now simply £95

29.11.2019

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If you’ve been holding out for a very nice Black Friday SSD deal this week, then your endurance is about to repay. For the following 14-odd hours, the 1TB Samsung 860 Evo is right down to a record-low £95 within the UK, which is a saving of round £40 in comparison with its value for the final six months.

The Samsung 860 Evo has been our best gaming SSD advice for completely ages, and is well the quickest and greatest 2.5in SATA SSD in its class. It’s additionally the primary correct deal I’ve seen on the 1TB model this week. Over the final couple of days, it’s primarily been the 500GB mannequin that’s had a Black Friday deal on it, which continues to be at an all-time low of £59 at time of writing. However, given right this moment’s large saving on the 1TB mannequin, the 500GB mannequin isn’t fairly as attractive because it as soon as was.

That mentioned, I also needs to level out that the 1TB Samsung 860 Qvo has additionally been £95 over at Overclockers UK for the entire of this week. This SSD truly produced quicker random write speeds than the 860 Evo once I had it in for testing, and was solely a fraction behind its Evo sibling in my random learn velocity take a look at. However, it’s additionally price mentioning that the 860 Evo has a a lot increased endurance ranking than the Qvo, coming in at 600 terabytes written versus simply 360 terabytes written on the Qvo, which in all probability nearly swings it within the Evo’s favour by way of general worth.

Either method, they’re each improbable SSDs and each will in all probability serve you completely effective no matter which one you would possibly determine to go along with.

Meanwhile, over within the US, the 1TB 860 Evo continues to be $110, which it has been for almost all of the week. That’s nonetheless an all-time low value, I would add, so it’s nonetheless price choosing up in case your PC’s in want of a storage improve. That mentioned, the 500GB 860 Evo is a extra tempting $58 proper now, placing it slightly below its UK counterpart.

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