With game sizes ever increasing, a 1 TB SSD is the very smallest capacity ... you can still find a great deal on a SATA SSD. These are slower than NVMe drives but they're still a huge improvement ...

giving the Crucial X9 a slight edge. But it appears the Beetle X31 might be nearing the end of its production life because we are seeing it at a significant savings — as low as $85 for 1TB.