A Samsung 990 EVO Plus 2TB sold for $129 on Amazon in October 2025. On October 27, 2026, Amazon sold the same drive for $365.99, which is $183 per terabyte, and that’s roughly where SSD prices sit right now across the board. If you’re deciding whether to buy an SSD this month or hold out, the picture is mixed: NVMe prices have roughly levelled off but haven’t come down, while SATA drives are still getting more expensive.
We track the cost per TB of 41 new SSD listings on Amazon US: Gen5 and Gen4 NVMe, 2.5-inch and M.2 SATA, at 1TB, 2TB and 4TB. Each drive gets a verdict against the cheapest drive in its class, and the history table compares today’s prices with the November 2025 and March 2026 figures GamersNexus published. It is the storage sibling of our GPU price tracker and the RAM price outlook. Prices and stock below were checked on October 27, 2026, and the page is updated monthly.
Best SSD buys right now
Three drives stand out today, and Amazon.com sells and ships each one itself, so you are not paying a marketplace reseller’s shortage premium. Start with the class your machine takes: SATA for a 2.5-inch bay, Gen4 for almost every M.2 slot, Gen5 only if your board has a Gen5 slot. Then take the pick below.
Cheapest per terabyte: PNY CS900 2TB
At $234.99 from Amazon.com, the PNY CS900 2TB works out to $117.50 per TB. Only the Silicon Power A55 beats it, by two cents on the whole drive. It is a plain 2.5-inch SATA III drive rated up to 550 MB/s reads, so it will not feel fast to you next to NVMe, but in an old laptop, a mini PC with a 2.5-inch bay or a NAS cache slot that ceiling doesn’t matter much. GamersNexus tracked it at $153 in November 2025 and $220 in March, so it has risen less than any other drive in our history table.
Skip it if your machine has a free M.2 NVMe slot, because $94 more buys a Gen4 drive rated at about 13 times the sequential read speed. The Silicon Power A55 2TB was $234.97 from the brand’s own store on Amazon, a fallback if the PNY sells out.
Cheapest Gen4 NVMe sold by Amazon: WD_BLACK SN7100 2TB
Amazon sold the WD_BLACK SN7100 2TB for $329.00, $164.50 per TB, which makes it the cheapest Gen4 NVMe drive Amazon sold directly. WD rates it at up to 7,250 MB/s reads on PCIe 4.0, the same tier as the Samsung 990 EVO Plus and 990 PRO, which cost $37 and $81 more here. Amazon flagged the listing as low stock on the day we checked, so if you want it, do not wait long.
You will find three cheaper Gen4 listings in the table: the ADATA Legend 860 at $269.99, the Kingston NV3 at $288.00 and the WD Blue SN5000 at $299.99. All three came from third-party sellers, so your returns and warranty handling depend on who shipped the drive. For a Proxmox boot or VM drive, the SN7100 is the one we’d buy at this price.
Gen5 for less than a 990 PRO: Samsung 9100 PRO 2TB
You can get the Samsung 9100 PRO 2TB for $409.00 from Amazon.com, $204.50 per TB. That is $0.99 less than the Gen4 Samsung 990 PRO 2TB at $409.99, so if you were about to buy a 990 PRO for a board with a PCIe 5.0 M.2 slot, the newer drive costs the same. Samsung rates it at up to 14,700 MB/s reads, about twice the 990 PRO.
In a Gen4 slot it runs at Gen4 speed, so there is no reason for you to pay Gen5 money for an older board. Our earlier reads put it at $399.99 on October 10 and $399.00 on October 19, so it has crept up about $10 this month. The Lexar NM1090 PRO 2TB was the cheapest Gen5 drive at $359.99, also sold by Amazon, and it rates Good on price. We still lead with the Samsung because it is the better-known drive at the same per-TB tier as the 990 PRO you were probably shopping for.
SSD prices per TB: 2TB NVMe and SATA
2TB is the capacity nearly every drive family sells, so it is the fairest one to compare across brands. The table sorts by cost per TB within each class. The verdict tells you how far a price sits from the best in its class: Good is within 10% of the cheapest drive in its class, Fair is 10% to 25% over it, and Overpriced is anything above that. The cheapest 2TB drive in each class set the bar at $117.48 per TB for SATA, $135.00 for Gen4 and $180.00 for Gen5.
| Drive (2TB) | Interface | Price | Per TB | Sold by | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silicon Power A55 | SATA 2.5in | $234.97 | $117.48 | Silicon Power (brand store) | Good |
| PNY CS900 | SATA 2.5in | $234.99 | $117.50 | Amazon.com | Good |
| Crucial BX500 | SATA 2.5in | $269 | $134.50 | Amazon.com | Fair |
| WD Blue SA510 (M.2 SATA) | SATA M.2 | $277.23 | $138.62 | Amazon.com | Fair |
| SanDisk SSD Plus | SATA 2.5in | $299 | $149.50 | electrolert | Overpriced |
| Samsung 870 EVO | SATA 2.5in | $497.11 | $248.56 | Choice Electronics | Overpriced |
| Samsung 870 QVO | SATA 2.5in | $509 | $254.50 | SiliconValleySeller | Overpriced |
| ADATA Legend 860 | PCIe 4.0 | $269.99 | $135.00 | Issaquah Highlands | Good |
| Kingston NV3 | PCIe 4.0 | $288 | $144.00 | Perfect Stock | Good |
| WD Blue SN5000 | PCIe 4.0 | $299.99 | $150.00 | AMAZING WAREHOUSE | Fair |
| Crucial P310 | PCIe 4.0 | $308.99 | $154.50 | Vaya Components | Fair |
| WD_BLACK SN7100 | PCIe 4.0 | $329 | $164.50 | Amazon.com | Fair |
| Samsung 990 EVO Plus | PCIe 4.0 | $365.99 | $183.00 | Amazon.com | Overpriced |
| Samsung 990 | PCIe 4.0 | $369.99 | $185.00 | Amazon.com | Overpriced |
| Samsung 990 PRO | PCIe 4.0 | $409.99 | $205.00 | Amazon.com | Overpriced |
| WD_BLACK SN850X | PCIe 4.0 | $417.70 | $208.85 | DealX | Overpriced |
| Crucial T500 | PCIe 4.0 | $498.77 | $249.38 | SiliconValleySeller | Overpriced |
| Kingston FURY Renegade | PCIe 4.0 | $499.99 | $250.00 | electrolert | Overpriced |
| Lexar NM1090 PRO | PCIe 5.0 | $359.99 | $180.00 | Amazon.com | Good |
| Crucial T705 | PCIe 5.0 | $399 | $199.50 | Platinum Micro | Fair |
| Samsung 9100 PRO | PCIe 5.0 | $409 | $204.50 | Amazon.com | Fair |
| Kingston FURY Renegade G5 | PCIe 5.0 | $426 | $213.00 | PrimeFindPalace | Fair |
| Crucial T710 | PCIe 5.0 | $449 | $224.50 | SiliconValleySeller | Fair |
| WD_BLACK SN8100 | PCIe 5.0 | $479.99 | $240.00 | Newegg Business | Overpriced |
At the median, a 2TB drive cost $138.62 per TB on SATA, $183.00 on Gen4 and $208.75 on Gen5. So Gen4 NVMe carries a premium of about $44 per TB over SATA at the median, and Gen5 adds only about $26 more. That small Gen5 step exists because the premium Gen4 drives (990 PRO, SN850X, T500) now cost as much as the cheaper Gen5 drives, so the top of the Gen4 table is the worst value in it.
Samsung’s 870 EVO is the worst number on the page. Amazon wasn’t selling the 2TB itself, and the buy box seller asked $497.11, more than a 990 PRO and more than twice the PNY CS900. Unless you need it to match drives already in an array, buy a different SATA drive.
1TB and 4TB SSD prices
If you shop at 1TB, you pay noticeably more per terabyte than at 2TB, while 4TB NVMe drives cost about the same per terabyte as 2TB or a little less. 4TB SATA is the exception and costs more. The same Amazon pull, at 1TB and 4TB:
| Drive | Size | Interface | Price | Per TB | Sold by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PNY CS900 | 1TB | SATA | $129.99 | $129.99 | Amazon.com |
| Kingston A400 (960GB) | 0.96TB | SATA | $156.95 | $163.49 | STOCKYFY |
| Kingston NV3 | 1TB | PCIe 4.0 | $156.77 | $156.77 | i77e |
| Samsung 990 | 1TB | PCIe 4.0 | $189.99 | $189.99 | Amazon.com |
| WD_BLACK SN7100 | 1TB | PCIe 4.0 | $214.70 | $214.70 | Digital Provisions |
| Samsung 990 EVO Plus | 1TB | PCIe 4.0 | $237 | $237.00 | MobileMonster |
| Samsung 990 PRO | 1TB | PCIe 4.0 | $259.99 | $259.99 | Amazon.com |
| WD_BLACK SN8100 | 1TB | PCIe 5.0 | $269.99 | $269.99 | Amazon.com |
| Samsung 870 EVO | 1TB | SATA | $332.89 | $332.89 | Choice Electronics |
| WD Blue SN5000 | 4TB | PCIe 4.0 | $499.99 | $125.00 | Platinum Micro |
| Kingston NV3 | 4TB | PCIe 4.0 | $579.99 | $145.00 | MobileMonster |
| Crucial BX500 | 4TB | SATA | $599.99 | $150.00 | Amazon.com |
| WD_BLACK SN7100 | 4TB | PCIe 4.0 | $609.99 | $152.50 | Newegg Business |
| Crucial T705 | 4TB | PCIe 5.0 | $633.77 | $158.44 | SiliconValleySeller |
| Samsung 990 EVO Plus | 4TB | PCIe 4.0 | $699 | $174.75 | SiliconValleySeller |
| Samsung 990 PRO | 4TB | PCIe 4.0 | $799.90 | $199.97 | Amazon.com |
| Samsung 870 EVO | 4TB | SATA | $1,046.98 | $261.75 | Amazon.com |
Three things in that table change what you should buy:
- You need 1TB on a budget: the PNY CS900 1TB at $129.99 and the Samsung 990 1TB at $189.99 are the only 1TB drives in our table that Amazon sold itself for under $200. The $60 gap buys NVMe speed, which is worth it on any machine with an M.2 slot.
- You need 4TB from Amazon directly: the Crucial BX500 4TB at $599.99 ($150 per TB) was the cheapest. Micron’s Crucial consumer shipments ended in February 2026, so what you will find is old stock.
- You need 4TB of NVMe: the WD Blue SN5000 4TB at $499.99 was the lowest cost per TB of any NVMe drive on the page, $125, but it came from a third-party seller. The Samsung 990 PRO 4TB at $799.90 is the Amazon-sold option.
Yes, the 4TB SATA Samsung 870 EVO really was $1,046.98. If you need bulk storage at that capacity, hard drives for a NAS still cost a fraction per terabyte, even after their own price rise.
How SSD prices moved since November 2025
GamersNexus pulled Newegg price histories for seven common drives on November 12, 2025 and March 12, 2026. We put today’s Amazon prices next to them so you can see the trend. The stores differ, so you should treat a few dollars either way as noise, but the direction is clear.
| Drive | Interface | Nov 2025 | Mar 2026 | Oct 27, 2026 | Since Nov | Since Mar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Samsung 990 PRO 2TB | PCIe 4.0 | $190 | $400 | $409.99 | +116% | +2% |
| WD_BLACK SN850X 2TB | PCIe 4.0 | $190 | $350 | $417.70 | +120% | +19% |
| Kingston NV3 2TB | PCIe 4.0 | $150 | $380 | $288 | +92% | -24% |
| Crucial P310 2TB | PCIe 4.0 | $145 | $300 | $308.99 | +113% | +3% |
| Samsung 870 EVO 2TB | SATA | $190 | $360 | $497.11 | +162% | +38% |
| Crucial BX500 2TB | SATA | $130 | $230 | $269 | +107% | +17% |
| PNY CS900 2TB | SATA | $153 | $220 | $234.99 | +54% | +7% |
Across the four NVMe drives, the average was $357.50 in March and $356.17 today, so NVMe prices have been flat for seven months at roughly double their November level. The three SATA drives went the other way: they averaged $270.00 in March and $333.70 now, up 24%. That average leans on a $497.11 marketplace 870 EVO, but the two drives Amazon sells itself rose too: the BX500 by 17% and the CS900 by 7%. SATA was late to the shortage and is still catching up, which is why the gap between a cheap SATA drive and a cheap NVMe drive is smaller than it used to be. The Kingston NV3 is the one drive that got cheaper, falling from $380 to $288.
Year over year, it looks worse. Tom’s Guide listed these Samsung sale prices on Amazon on October 8, 2025, with the “was” price beside each one. You are looking at the same drives in the same store, one year apart:
| Drive | List (was) price, Oct 2025 | Sale price, Oct 8, 2025 | Oct 27, 2026 | vs usual price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Samsung 990 EVO Plus 1TB | $104 | $59 | $237 (MobileMonster) | 2.3x |
| Samsung 990 PRO 1TB | $127 | $89 | $259.99 | 2.0x |
| Samsung 990 EVO Plus 2TB | $176 | $129 | $365.99 | 2.1x |
| Samsung 990 EVO Plus 4TB | $327 | $199 | $699 (SiliconValleySeller) | 2.1x |
Against those 2025 list prices, these drives cost 2 to 2.3 times as much today. Against the sale prices, it’s about 2.8 to 4 times, and the 990 EVO Plus 1TB costs four times its 2025 deal. You should not expect to see those 2025 sale prices again before supply catches up.
Should you buy an SSD now or wait?
Buy now if you need the drive in the next few months. Contract prices are still rising, our own reads show Amazon prices drifting up through October, and the forecasts do not point to relief before the second half of 2027. Waiting for Black Friday is a gamble with a small payoff, because a 10% discount on a drive that costs double last year’s price is still a bad price. How we’d decide:
- Your current drive is failing or full: buy now. Take one of the picks above, or any Good or Fair drive Amazon.com sells itself.
- You’re building a new PC this year: buy the boot drive now and add bulk storage later, because a 1TB or 2TB drive is a small bill next to a full build and you cannot boot without it.
- You want more space but nothing is urgent: wait. If NAND supply eases in late 2027 as forecast, you’ll save more than any sale this year will.
- You only have a 2.5-inch bay: buy SATA soon. SATA prices are still rising faster than NVMe.
- You were eyeing a 990 PRO: check whether your board has a Gen5 M.2 slot first. If it does, the 9100 PRO costs the same.
Whatever you buy, do not pay a marketplace seller’s shortage premium for a drive Amazon sells for less, and don’t chase heatsink versions unless your board lacks an M.2 cover. The heatsink 990 PRO 2TB was $556.47 against $409.99 for the bare drive.
Why SSD prices are still high
Enterprise SSDs for AI servers are taking the NAND that used to end up in the drive you buy. Counterpoint Research put enterprise SSDs at 48% of all NAND bits shipped in the second quarter of 2026. At the same time, ChosunBiz reported (citing Omdia) that Samsung planned to cut its NAND wafer output from 4.9 million wafers in 2025 to 4.68 million in 2026, with SK hynix expected to go from about 1.9 million to 1.7 million. More demand plus less output is the whole story, and our explainer on why RAM and storage prices increased covers the DRAM side too.
Contract prices show how fast it moved, and that it has not stopped:
- Q2 2026: NAND contract prices rose 55% to 60% quarter over quarter, per TrendForce’s revised figures.
- Q3 2026: TrendForce raised its forecast to an 18% to 23% increase.
- Q4 2026: TrendForce expects another 15% to 20%, with client SSD increases more restrained than enterprise ones.
- Late 2027: TrendForce expects NAND supply to loosen in the second half of 2027.
TrendForce published the fourth-quarter outlook in TrendForce’s September 30 release. Micron also exited the Crucial consumer business, with consumer shipments ending in February 2026, which explains why most Crucial NVMe listings in our tables now come from third-party sellers at prices well above the BX500 Amazon still stocks.
Where these prices fall short
Every price you see here came from the Amazon product API for the US store on October 27, 2026. We tracked 41 listings of new drives, in stock or low stock, and left out heatsink versions, renewed drives, bundles, preorders and portable SSDs. The API returns the buy box offer, so a cheaper offer from another seller can sit on the same page. Third-party sellers stay in the tables and are named, but only drives Amazon.com sells itself get a buy link.
Keep these limits in mind when you compare our numbers with other trackers:
- One store: Newegg, B&H or Micro Center can be cheaper on any given day, and the history table mixes Newegg (past) with Amazon (now).
- One day: Amazon prices change hourly. Our three October reads of the 990 PRO 2TB were $389.99, $386.56 and $409.99.
- Price, not performance: a Good verdict says the price is low for its class. For which drive suits a workload, see our Gen4 and Gen5 NVMe picks or the used U.2 drives for a homelab, which beat consumer drives per TB.
We keep every monthly snapshot in the page data files, so next month’s update will show you which of these prices moved and whether the SATA climb has finally stopped.
