In normal times, it would be hard to describe this WD Blue SN5000 SSD offer on Amazon as a good deal, but £369.99 is a surprisingly reasonable price for a 4TB drive in the current crisis. You’ll need to be quick, though, as this deal is only available for a limited time, and Amazon says it’s sold 41% of the stock already.
WD Blue SN5000 4TB
£448.99 / £369.99
“The WD Blue SN5000 NVMe SSD is next-generation storage designed for creators and professionals.” – SanDisk
When it first launched, a 4TB WD Blue SN5000 cost £275.99, but its official MSRP on SanDisk’s website is now £448.99, thanks to AI datacentres hoovering up all the manufacturing capacity for memory and SSDs. As such, £369.99 is a respectable middle ground in these tough times, knocking over 17% off the price.
Given that a 2TB Samsung 990 is set to cost £412, £369.99 for a 4TB drive doesn’t seem too bad. What’s more, the SN5000 same PCIe Gen 4.0 interface as the new Samsung drive. Originally designed to be a budget-friendly driver, the WD Blue SN5000 offers comparatively modest peak sequential read and write speeds of 5,500MB/s and 5,000MB/s respectively.
That’s a fair way behind the pace of top-end Gen 4 drives, which go well over 7,000MB/s, but you only really see these speeds in large-scale file transfers. When it comes to everyday use, the WD Blue SN5000 is fast enough for most people’s needs, especially at this price.
At £369.99, you’re looking at a cost of £92.50 per terabyte, and that’s not to be sniffed at. After all, even a 1TB WD Blue SN5000 currently goes for £179.25 on Amazon right now, so you’re saving a big chunk of money buying this 4TB drive at today’s prices.
We all wish SSDs weren’t ridiculously expensive at the moment, but if you want a large drive for a half-reasonable price, this is as good as it gets at the moment. Grab one now before they’re all gone.
