Upgrade Your PC With a 1TB SSD for Just $68 Today

Solid state drives have become cheaper and better over the past decade, and now it’s almost a no-brainer to use SSDs in all your PCs. Now you can pick up a Crucial MX500 SSD for the lowest price yet.

The MX500 is a SATA-based SSD that has been around for a few years. Crucial promises sequential read speeds of 560 MB/s, and sequential writes of around 510 MB/s, which is close to the physical limit of the SATA 3 connector. For comparison, a normal hard drive is usually around 80-160 MB/s, while more advanced NVMe SSDs are pushing 3,500MB/s read speeds or higher.

This drive isn’t as fast as some of the best internal SSDs, especially any NVMe models, but it is much faster and more reliable than any spinning hard disk. The drive is especially a great choice for upgrading old desktops and laptops, especially ones that don’t support M2 or NVMe at all. If a computer’s primary drive is still a spinning hard drive, replacing it with an SSD can easily breathe new life into the PC — speeding up everything from Windows bootup times to app responsiveness.

The Crucial MX500 1TB is on sale for $67.99 at Amazon right now, which is the lowest recorded price yet at a major retailer. Best Buy also has it on sale, though the discount isn’t as steep there, at $72.