Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days just discounted SSDs, microSD cards, and hard drives by as much as $250 - a rare bright spot in a year when storage prices have mostly gone up.
The October 6-7 sale includes Samsung's 990 PRO 2TB PCIe 4.0 SSD for $389.99, down from $639.99, with sequential speeds up to 7,450 MB/s. SanDisk's 1TB Extreme Portable SSD drops to $245.99, a $54 savings, and Samsung's 2TB T7 Portable SSD falls to $379.99, a $170 cut. MicroSD buyers get a break too: SanDisk's 512GB microSD Express card for the Nintendo Switch 2 is $159.99, $40 off list. Dozens of smaller discounts cover hard drives from Seagate and WD, plus additional microSD and portable SSD options.
These discounts land in the middle of what's been dubbed 'RAMageddon,' a supply crunch where enterprise demand for memory chips has been squeezing consumer supply and pushing storage and RAM prices up across the board. That makes a two-day sale with real markdowns, rather than inflated 'was' prices, more useful than usual if you've been putting off a storage upgrade.
Treat it as a window, not a trend: the shortage pushing prices up everywhere else doesn't go away once the sale ends.