Why You Can Trust CNET World Backup Day Deals: 44 Storage Deals You Can Still Shop
The event is over, but you can still snag great deals on flash drives, hard drives, microSD cards, cloud storage and more so you won't be worried about losing your data.
World Backup Day is always a great time to backup your most important files or invest in new storage for your data. The event happened Sunday, but if you missed the big sales happening at various retailers, don't fret. There are a number of deals still up for grabs, helping you nab extra storage to back up your files without paying full price.
Keeping your data backed up is important, especially because you never know when something could go wrong, which is why the 3-2-1 rule of data storage exists. That means you should ideally have three copies of your data on at least two types of storage and at least one of those should be off-site. As such, you should absolutely take advantage of these deals while you still can to ensure redundancy for your data. You'll thank us later.
To that end, we've gathered deals on options ranging from flash drives and microSD cards to internal solid state drives, huge NAS systems and even cloud storage. However, now that the event is over, these deals could end any minute, so we recommend making your selection soon to avoid disappointment.
The best World Backup Day sales still available
- Amazon: Save on SanDisk, WD, PNY and more.
- Best Buy: Deals on storage from WD, PNY, Crucial and SanDisk.
- Newegg: Hundreds of deals on internal and external storage.
- B&H: Shop personal and professional storage products.
- Samsung: Save on flash drives, microSD cards, SSDs and more.
- Western Digital: Direct savings on WD and SanDisk products.
Below are highlights of some of the best deals you can still get your hands on, but prices are subject to change any time as deals expire. World Backup Day occurs every year on March 31.
External hard drive and SSD deals
If you need a ton of storage, this plug and play model may be a good choice. It's discounted by 31% right now and will definitely allow you to free up your internal drive.
Score this capacious and rugged portable SSD with up to 2-meter drop protection and IP55 water and dust resistance to protect its contents, along with speeds of up to 2,000MB/s.
More external hard drive and SSD deals:
- Samsung 8TB T5 EVO portable SSD: $600 (save $180)
- Crucial 500GB X6 portable SSD: $50 (save $5)
- Crucial 2TB X9 portable SSD: $136 (save $24)
- WD 5TB Easystore portable hard drive: $125 (save $10)
- WD 14TB Easystore desktop external hard drive: $270 (save $40)
- SanDisk Professional 7.68TB G-Drive Pro Studio SSD: $938 (save $812)
- Seagate Grogu Drive SE FireCuda external USB hard drive: $70 (save $30)
Flash drive deals
You can fit a surprising amount of data on a flash drive like this 1TB model from PNY. If you need ultimate portability for a large amount of data, this is an ideal pick.
With most new computers and tablets having switched to USB-C inputs, World Backup Day is a great opportunity to switch over your portable storage, and you can score this Samsung USB-C flash drive for under $30 right now.
While you can't put a microSD card in your iPhone, it does have support for external storage devices like the SanDisk iXpand flash drive with its integrated Lightning connector. This device is ideal for getting a bunch of photos or files off your iPhone and onto a computer with its dual-port design.
More flash drive deals:
- Transcend 256GB Jetflash 790 flash drive: $22 (save $5)
- SanDisk 256GB Ultra Fit USB 3.1: $20 (save $60)
- Lexar 128GB JumpDrive V100 USB flash drive (2-pack): $20 (save $6)
- PNY 512GB Pro Elite V2 USB flash drive: $63 (save $37)
- SanDisk 256GB iXpand Phone Drive Luxe Lightning and Type-C: $66 (save 33)
- SanDisk 1TB Ultra Dual Drive Luxe USB 3.1: $80 (save $110)
SD and microSD card deals
This memory card has a 128GB capacity with read speeds of 300MB/s and write speeds of 260MB/s, and is durable against magnets, shock, water, X-rays and temperature.
More SD and microSD card deals:
- SanDisk 64GB Extreme Pro SD card: $16 (save $3)
- SanDisk 256GB High Endurance Video microSDXC Card: $23 (save $37)
- SanDisk 32GB Extreme UHS-I microSDHC Memory Card (3-pack): $28 (save $5)
- PNY 512GB Pro Elite microSD card: $35 (save $15)
- Amazon Basics 64GB microSD (2-pack): $12 (save $7)
NAS deals
If you want to organize your media collection in one place and have it be accessible from anywhere, this high-performance NAS solution can do it. And you can save $160 on one at Amazon right now.
More NAS deals:
- Buffalo TeraStation Essentials 4-Bay Desktop NAS with HDD: $660 (save $300)
- Asustor Drivestor 2 Pro AS3302T 2-Bay NAS (Diskless): $219 (save $30)
- Synology 16TB + 4-Bay NAS Enclosure Kit with Seagate NAS Drives (4 x 4TB): $920 (save $100)
Internal storage deals
If you want a speedy SSD for gaming, the Samsung 980 Pro is a great choice. This model features a built-in heatsink (which saves you from adding one yourself), to help it stay cool under intense usage.
While 500GB may not seem like a lot in this day and age, a smaller SSD actually makes a lot of sense. Since all drives work with a limited bandwidth speed, having your operating system and utility apps split into a different SSD makes sense. That means when running a game, Photoshop or any other heavy-duty app, the OS and your antivirus aren't taking cycles away from running and loading content when gaming or editing. This 500GB Samsung SSD is perfect for that since it can hit read speeds up to 560 MB/s and write speeds of up to 530 MB/s
More internal storage deals:
- WD 10TB Red Pro NAS internal hard drive: $263 (save $87)
- Seagate 4TB BarraCuda internal hard drive: $85 (save $8)
- Crucial 1TB P3 M.2 internal SSD: $69 (save $21)
- Samsung 2TB 870 Evo 2.5-inch SATA internal SSD: $155 (save $100 with coupon)
- Samsung 2TB 990 Pro M.2 internal SSD: $180 (save $70)
- WD Black 2TB SN850X Internal SSD: $170 (save $30)
- Samsung 4TB 990 PRO M.2 Internal SSD: $320 (save $145)
- Seagate 22TB IronWolf Pro 7,200 rpm SATA III 3.5-inch Internal NAS HDD (CMR): $400 (save $100)
Cloud backup deals
If you're in the market for cloud storage and a VPN, a joint offering from ExpressVPN and Backblaze saves you $99 by bundling both services. You also get three extra months of VPN access for free with this deal.
Store up to 20TB of your files in the cloud with this heavily discounted Prism Drive subscription. This deal saves you hundreds compared to the usual monthly subscription cost, and you'll only be billed once for lifetime access.
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