There was a time when you would almost never have to pay full whack for a portable SSD. The eye-watering list prices were treated as almost a fiction because there would be discounts of up to 50% off almost every other week.
Alas, the tech giants' furor for AI has ramped up global demand for both RAM and long-term data storage. With major players like Samsung, SanDisk and Crucial focusing on supplying the data centre market, consumer prices have gone through the roof. List prices are higher, and there are fewer discounts.
Fortunately, occasional portable SSD deals still comes up, and they're worth grabbing when they do. That's definitely the case with Amazon's current discount of 24% off the Samsung T7 1TB, reduced from $287.99 to $219.99.
These are today's highlights in the US and UK, both of them on SSDs that we've tested and highly rate.
