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Get Elden Ring free with a Crucial SSD: SATA, NVMe or USB optionsNew storage and one of the best recent games to fill it up.
New storage and one of the best recent games to fill it up.
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco
Elden Ringis one of the best PC games of the year -one of the RPS Bestest Bests, in fact - and right now you can get it for free with the purchase of a Crucial SSD. At Ebuyer, there are nine different drives available under the promotion - including the super-fast P5 Plus NVMe drive, the reliable MX500 SATA drive and the great value Crucial P2 budget NVMe.Get a Crucial SSD with free Elden Ring (via GamesPlanet voucher)So first, let’s look at the deal. The way it works is that you get a voucher for Elden Ring at Gamesplanet, where you can get a key for the game on Steam. Some of the drives in the promotionalsocome with a free copy ofGuild Wars 2, which is nice.Now, onto the choice of drives. Here’s the full list of options:Crucial P5 Plus (6600MB/s):1TB/2TBCrucial P2 NVMe (2400MB/s):2TBCrucial MX500 (560MB/s):2TB/4TBCrucial X8 (1050MB/s USB):1TB/2TBCrucial X6 (540MB/s USB):2TB/4TBThe P5 Plus is a great shout for PC and PS5, offering bleeding-edge PCIe 4.0 speeds. This NVMe drive is a great choice for gaming or content creation workloads, and for taking full advantage of future DirectStorage titles. If value is more of your focus, then the P2 NVMe drive offers about half the sequential speeds and slightly worse sustained performance at a considerably lower price. The MX500 is a SATA drive, so it’s slower again, but may be the only choice for laptops or desktops with no free NVMe-capable M.2 slots.Finally, the portable options: the X6 and X8. Both connect via full-size USB or USB-C, offering SSD speeds in a compact form factor. I use one of these drives for transferring video footage from computer to computer (or computer to TV), but they’re great for portable game storage too. The X8 is about twice as fast as the X6, 1050MB/s to 540MB/s, which you’ll definitely notice for copying large files, but probably won’t for game load times.I reckon all of these drives are good, and at prices that are quite competitive with the cheapest UK retailers (eg Amazon), so do consider picking one up with one of our favourite games of 2022!
Elden Ringis one of the best PC games of the year -one of the RPS Bestest Bests, in fact - and right now you can get it for free with the purchase of a Crucial SSD. At Ebuyer, there are nine different drives available under the promotion - including the super-fast P5 Plus NVMe drive, the reliable MX500 SATA drive and the great value Crucial P2 budget NVMe.Get a Crucial SSD with free Elden Ring (via GamesPlanet voucher)So first, let’s look at the deal. The way it works is that you get a voucher for Elden Ring at Gamesplanet, where you can get a key for the game on Steam. Some of the drives in the promotionalsocome with a free copy ofGuild Wars 2, which is nice.Now, onto the choice of drives. Here’s the full list of options:Crucial P5 Plus (6600MB/s):1TB/2TBCrucial P2 NVMe (2400MB/s):2TBCrucial MX500 (560MB/s):2TB/4TBCrucial X8 (1050MB/s USB):1TB/2TBCrucial X6 (540MB/s USB):2TB/4TBThe P5 Plus is a great shout for PC and PS5, offering bleeding-edge PCIe 4.0 speeds. This NVMe drive is a great choice for gaming or content creation workloads, and for taking full advantage of future DirectStorage titles. If value is more of your focus, then the P2 NVMe drive offers about half the sequential speeds and slightly worse sustained performance at a considerably lower price. The MX500 is a SATA drive, so it’s slower again, but may be the only choice for laptops or desktops with no free NVMe-capable M.2 slots.Finally, the portable options: the X6 and X8. Both connect via full-size USB or USB-C, offering SSD speeds in a compact form factor. I use one of these drives for transferring video footage from computer to computer (or computer to TV), but they’re great for portable game storage too. The X8 is about twice as fast as the X6, 1050MB/s to 540MB/s, which you’ll definitely notice for copying large files, but probably won’t for game load times.I reckon all of these drives are good, and at prices that are quite competitive with the cheapest UK retailers (eg Amazon), so do consider picking one up with one of our favourite games of 2022!
Elden Ringis one of the best PC games of the year -one of the RPS Bestest Bests, in fact - and right now you can get it for free with the purchase of a Crucial SSD. At Ebuyer, there are nine different drives available under the promotion - including the super-fast P5 Plus NVMe drive, the reliable MX500 SATA drive and the great value Crucial P2 budget NVMe.
Get a Crucial SSD with free Elden Ring (via GamesPlanet voucher)
So first, let’s look at the deal. The way it works is that you get a voucher for Elden Ring at Gamesplanet, where you can get a key for the game on Steam. Some of the drives in the promotionalsocome with a free copy ofGuild Wars 2, which is nice.
Now, onto the choice of drives. Here’s the full list of options:
The P5 Plus is a great shout for PC and PS5, offering bleeding-edge PCIe 4.0 speeds. This NVMe drive is a great choice for gaming or content creation workloads, and for taking full advantage of future DirectStorage titles. If value is more of your focus, then the P2 NVMe drive offers about half the sequential speeds and slightly worse sustained performance at a considerably lower price. The MX500 is a SATA drive, so it’s slower again, but may be the only choice for laptops or desktops with no free NVMe-capable M.2 slots.
Finally, the portable options: the X6 and X8. Both connect via full-size USB or USB-C, offering SSD speeds in a compact form factor. I use one of these drives for transferring video footage from computer to computer (or computer to TV), but they’re great for portable game storage too. The X8 is about twice as fast as the X6, 1050MB/s to 540MB/s, which you’ll definitely notice for copying large files, but probably won’t for game load times.
I reckon all of these drives are good, and at prices that are quite competitive with the cheapest UK retailers (eg Amazon), so do consider picking one up with one of our favourite games of 2022!
