If you only read one paragraph: our pick for most people is the Samsung 870 EVO 250GB, priced from ₱3,590 at the retailers we checked on 28 September 2026. It is the best-known, best-supported brand on this list with a 5-year warranty, and it is the drive we would put in a friend's PC without a second thought. If you have a newer laptop or desktop with a free M.2 NVMe slot instead of a 2.5-inch SATA bay, jump to the Lexar NM620 1TB pick further down, which is 4 to 7 times faster for a similar price band.
We checked every price on this page against live Shopee Philippines, Lazada Philippines and BigGo Philippines listings on 28 September 2026, not carried over from an old draft. One thing worth knowing before you buy: the Philippines, like every market, is in the middle of a 2026 NAND flash shortage as Samsung and SK Hynix divert manufacturing capacity to AI memory chips. We explain what that means for what you will actually pay in the "Why SSD prices look different right now" section below.
Contents
- Best for PlayStation: Western Digital WD Green 480GB
- Best for fast transfers: Kingston A400 240GB
- Best overall: Samsung 870 EVO 250GB
- Best for heavy daily use: Crucial MX500 250GB
- Best for desktop upgrade: Patriot P210 256GB
- Best for laptops: TeamGroup GX2 512GB
- Best for backup storage: ADATA SU630 240GB
- Best budget 240GB SSD: Hikvision HS-SSD-C100
- Best compact NVMe SSD: PNY CS1031 256GB
- Best NVMe upgrade: Lexar NM620 1TB
- How the 10 picks compare
- Why SSD prices look different right now
- Two brands we chose not to recommend
- Frequently asked questions
- How we chose
- Related guides
Western Digital WD Green 480GB₱2,999Lazada
Kingston A400 240GB₱3,840Lazada
Samsung 870 EVO 250GB₱3,590Lazada
Crucial MX500 250GB₱6,993Lazada
Patriot P210 256GB₱3,999Lazada
TeamGroup GX2 512GB₱5,969Lazada
ADATA SU630 240GB₱1,655Lazada
Hikvision HS-SSD-C100₱1,659Lazada
PNY CS1031 256GB₱4,199Lazada
Lexar NM620 1TB₱4,495Lazada
Best for PlayStation: Western Digital WD Green 480GB
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WD Green is Western Digital's entry SATA line, and the 480GB capacity is a popular, well-documented choice for a PS4 or PS5 storage upgrade thanks to its straightforward 2.5-inch form factor. It is not the fastest drive here, but it is a known-reliable name for a simple console or older-laptop swap.
Best for fast transfers: Kingston A400 240GB
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Kingston's A400 is one of the most widely stocked budget SATA drives in the Philippines, rated at up to 10 times a 7,200RPM hard drive's speed. The 240GB capacity suits a Windows boot drive or a laptop that only has room for one internal storage bay.
Best overall: Samsung 870 EVO 250GB
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Samsung backs the 870 EVO with a 5-year warranty, the longest of any SATA drive on this list, and it remains the drive we would recommend without reservation to someone who just wants a dependable upgrade and does not want to think about SSDs again for years.
Best for heavy daily use: Crucial MX500 250GB
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Crucial (Micron's consumer brand) builds the MX500 with a wider dynamic write cache than most budget SATA drives, which keeps performance more consistent under sustained, heavy day-to-day use like video editing scratch disks or a busy multi-tasking desktop.
Best for desktop upgrade: Patriot P210 256GB
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The Patriot P210 is a no-frills 2.5-inch SATA drive that supports TRIM and S.M.A.R.T health monitoring, aimed squarely at a desktop tower with a spare drive bay rather than a space-constrained laptop.
Best for laptops: TeamGroup GX2 512GB
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TeamGroup’s GX2 is a compact 7mm 2.5-inch SATA drive built to fit the thinner drive bays common in laptops, backed by a 3-year warranty, and a straightforward way to replace a slow spinning hard drive.
Best for backup storage: ADATA SU630 240GB
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ADATA's SU630 trades a little peak performance for a low cost per gigabyte and a shockproof, vibration-resistant build, which suits a secondary backup drive more than a primary boot drive.
Best budget 240GB SSD: Hikvision HS-SSD-C100
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Hikvision is better known for CCTV hardware, but its HS-SSD-C100 is a real, specified 3D NAND SATA drive at one of the lowest prices on this list for the 240GB capacity, a fair trade for a reader who just needs affordable extra space.
Best compact NVMe SSD: PNY CS1031 256GB
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The PNY CS1031 packs NVMe speeds (up to 1,500MB/s read) into the compact M.2 2280 form factor at one of the lower NVMe entry prices here, a good match for a slim laptop or small-form-factor PC with only an M.2 slot free.
Best NVMe upgrade: Lexar NM620 1TB
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The Lexar NM620 is a current, widely stocked PCIe Gen3 NVMe drive rated up to 3,300MB/s read, 4 to 7 times a SATA drive's throughput, and at 1TB it holds roughly double or quadruple the capacity of most SATA picks here for a similar price band, backed by a 5-year warranty.
How the 10 picks compare
| SSD | Capacity | Interface | From price | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Western Digital WD Green | 480GB | SATA III | ₱2,999 | PlayStation upgrade |
| Kingston A400 | 240GB | SATA III | ₱3,840 | Fast transfers |
| Samsung 870 EVO | 250GB | SATA III | ₱3,590 | Overall pick |
| Crucial MX500 | 250GB | SATA III | ₱6,993 | Heavy daily use |
| Patriot P210 | 256GB | SATA III | ₱3,999 | Desktop upgrade |
| TeamGroup GX2 | 512GB | SATA III | ₱5,969 | Laptops |
| ADATA SU630 | 240GB | SATA III | ₱1,655 | Backup storage |
| Hikvision HS-SSD-C100 | 240GB | SATA III | ₱1,659 | Budget 240GB |
| PNY CS1031 | 256GB | M.2 NVMe | ₱4,199 | Compact NVMe |
| Lexar NM620 | 1TB | M.2 NVMe | ₱4,495 | NVMe upgrade |
Why SSD prices look different right now
If you compared these prices against an old price-tracking site or a screenshot from a friend, you may notice the numbers here run higher than you would expect for drives this old. That is not a markup on our part: 2026 is a genuine global NAND flash shortage, driven by Samsung and SK Hynix redirecting manufacturing capacity toward the memory chips that power AI data centres. We found the clearest evidence of it directly in the Philippine market while researching this page: several big-box retailers (DataBlitz, EasyPC, PC Express) still list 2024-era catalog prices for these exact drives, but mark them "Sold out" at that price. The real "can you buy it today" price on Shopee and Lazada right now runs 1.5 to 4 times higher for some capacities, especially NVMe drives, which are taking the heavier hit. We priced every pick above at what you would actually pay today, not the stale catalog number, and we will revise this page again once the shortage eases.
Two brands we chose not to recommend
Two SSDs from our previous list, sold under the names Walram and RAMSTA, are gone from this update. Both are generic drives with no listing on any major Philippine computer retailer (DataBlitz, EasyPC, PC Express, Bermorzone, iTech, Game One) and inconsistent pricing across unrelated Shopee resellers, the usual signature of unauthorised or grey-market stock rather than a real distributor. A drive that fails without warning is worse than paying a little more for a name with an actual warranty behind it, so we would not put either in front of a reader again.
Frequently asked questions
Which brand SSD is the best?
For most buyers in the Philippines, Samsung and Crucial (made by Micron) carry the strongest reputation for long-term reliability and honour their warranties consistently. Western Digital and Kingston are close behind for everyday use. We would not build a system around an unbranded drive with no local distributor, however cheap it looks.
What is the best SSD to buy right now?
For a typical laptop or desktop upgrade, the Samsung 870 EVO 250GB is our overall pick. If your machine supports M.2 NVMe, the Lexar NM620 1TB gives you far more speed and roughly 4 times the capacity for a similar price today.
How much is a 2TB SSD in the Philippines?
Checked 28 September 2026: a 2TB Crucial MX500 (2.5-inch SATA) from Crucial's own official Lazada and Shopee stores runs from around ₱22,999 to ₱23,400, reflecting the current shortage. Prices from unofficial resellers vary widely and are not a reliable guide.
How much is a 256GB SSD in the Philippines?
Our two 240 to 256GB SATA picks, the ADATA SU630 and the Hikvision HS-SSD-C100, both start from around ₱1,655 to ₱1,659 as of 28 September 2026. A 256GB M.2 NVMe drive like the PNY CS1031 costs more, from ₱4,199, for the faster interface.
What is the best and most affordable SSD in the Philippines?
The ADATA SU630 240GB, from ₱1,655, is the cheapest drive on this list from a real, warrantied brand. It is meant for a straightforward hard-drive replacement or backup storage, not heavy daily writing.
What is the lifespan of an SSD?
Manufacturers typically rate these drives for 3 to 5 years of warranty coverage and hundreds of terabytes of total writes (TBW), which is far more than a typical home or office user will write in that time. In practice, an SSD from a reputable brand kept in a normal desktop or laptop commonly lasts well beyond its warranty period; sudden failure without warning is the real risk with unbranded drives, which is why we dropped the two generic picks above.
How we chose
We started from the 10 drives already on this page from our last update and re-verified every one against live Shopee Philippines and Lazada Philippines listings plus BigGo Philippines price aggregation on 28 September 2026, rather than assuming last update's prices still held. Three picks (a Gigabyte 120GB drive, and the Walram and RAMSTA generic drives) were dropped: the Gigabyte had no listing on any major Philippine computer retailer, and Walram and RAMSTA showed the grey-market pattern described above. We added the Lexar NM620 1TB as a current, well-stocked NVMe option after confirming its price matched independently across two separate retailers (DataBlitz and Itech Philippines). We corrected one real mismatch: the drive photographed and sold as a "Team Elite GX2" on this page for years was in fact priced and linked as a completely different Team Group SATA model (the MS30 M.2), so we re-sourced the correct GX2 product, image and links to match what a buyer actually receives. Every price above is what we found buyable today, not a manufacturer's list price.
We did not physically test these drives ourselves; this is a buying guide built from verified current pricing, availability and manufacturer specifications, not a hands-on lab review.
Related guides
- Best laptops in the Philippines, if you are choosing a machine to put this SSD in rather than upgrading one you already own.
- Best monitors in the Philippines, for the rest of a desktop upgrade alongside a new SSD.
- Best keyboards in the Philippines, another easy desktop upgrade that pairs well with a storage refresh.
- Best tablets in the Philippines, if portable storage rather than a fixed upgrade is what you actually need.
Last updated 28 September 2026: replaced 3 drives with no legitimate Philippine retailer (Gigabyte 120GB, Walram, RAMSTA) with a current Lexar NM620 1TB NVMe pick; corrected a Team Group product that was photographed and linked as the wrong SKU; refreshed every remaining price against live Shopee, Lazada and BigGo Philippines listings.
