Published Apr 24, 2026, 2:01 PM EDT After a 7-year corporate stint, Tanveer found his love for writing and tech too much to resist. An MBA in Marketing and the owner of a PC building business, he writes on PC hardware, technology, and Windows. When not scouring the web for ideas, he can be found building PCs, watching anime, or playing Smash Karts on his RTX 3080 (sigh). Running out of storage seems like a never-ending problem. Unless you're super stingy with your data, your PC will need a new drive sooner or later. In a sane world, you could buy a secondary 2TB Gen4 SSD for around $100 and call it a day. The world we're living in right now, however, is far from that. SSD prices in 2026 have crossed all limits of sanity, reaching highs of around $500 for 2TB Gen5 drives. We saw a correction in recent weeks, but you're still forced to pay over $300 for a decent 2TB Gen4 or Gen5 model.…