There are a bunch of deals on consoles and video games for Black Friday. But even if you buy physical copies, current-gen consoles require that games be fully installed onto internal storage to minimize loading times.

During the current Black Friday sale, you can get the Samsung T7 Shield 2TB Portable SSD at just $149.99, which is a 47% off on its regular price. If you want to backup your game files to make space on the console,

Nextorage's 2TB and 1TB NVMe SSDs are compatible with PS5 and available at less than half of their original price on Newegg.

Right now, the Samsung 900 Pro M.2 SSD is on sale for $159, which is $90 off the regular listed price of $249, with an Amazon Black Friday deal. If you've got a PC made in the last few years then chances are good that you can equip it with a super-fast M.2 SSD drive. And these drives don't get much faster than the 2 TB Samsung 990 Pro M.2 SSD

If you're running an old HDD, there's no better time to upgrade than this Black Friday. Here are some of the best Black Friday SSD deals.

Samsung has the 990 Pro SSD with and without a heatsink on sale for Black Friday—available as either 1TB, 2TB, or 4TB.

The WD Black SN770 is a solid PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD for use with a powerful gaming rig, and you can get it in 2TB form for a rather low price from Scan Computers.

The 2TB variant of the WD Black SN770 PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSD is now available for $179 $119, which is its all-time low price. The 1TB variant is available for $99 $75 whereas the 500GB costs $84 $44 .

You may think you have to wait for Black Friday to find a good deal on an external SSD, but that’s not the case. The Portable SSD T5 EVO is on sale at Samsung right now. The 2TB version is exempt from the sale,