The WD Blue 500GB SSD offers a lot of speed and storage at one of its best prices ever

The WD Blue 500GB solid state drive drops to $56.99 at Newegg when you enter promo code EMCTDWT22 during checkout. This deal is $1 above the best price we've ever seen, which was back in July. Currently both the SATA and M.2 versions of this drive go for around $65 at Newegg and Amazon.

WD Blue 500GB solid state drive

WD Blue 500GB solid state drive

The SSD only dropped below $100 for the first time last September. Now it's nearly half that.

The deal given is no longer valid and we do not have a better one. However, we have found some similar deals

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WD easystore 14TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive

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WD Easystore 16GB external desktop hard drive

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WD My Passport 500GB external USB-C portable solid state drive

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These are 3D NAND drives that draw 25% less power than previous generations of the WD Blue. They have read/write speeds of 560 MB/s and 530 MB/s respectively. Users give them 4.7 stars based on 1,893 reviews.

John Levite
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J.D. Levite has been in the deals game since 2012. He has posted daily deals at Gizmodo, The Wirecutter, The Sweethome, and now covers deals for Android Central, iMore, and Windows Central. He was there for the first Prime Day and has braved the full force of Black Friday. If you cut him, he bleeds savings. But don't try it for real. That's a metaphor.