World Backup Day Deals: 44 Storage Deals You Can Still Shop – CNET

World Backup Day is always a great time to backup your most important files or invest in new storage for your data. The event happened Sunday, but if you missed the big sales happening at various retailers, don’t fret. There are a number of deals still up for grabs, helping you nab extra storage to back up your files without paying full price. 

Keeping your data backed up is important, especially because you never know when something could go wrong, which is why the 3-2-1 rule of data storage exists. That means you should ideally have three copies of your data on at least two types of storage and at least one of those should be off-site. As such, you should absolutely take advantage of these deals while you still can to ensure redundancy for your data. You’ll thank us later.

To that end, we’ve gathered deals on options ranging from flash drives and microSD cards to internal solid state drives, huge NAS systems and even cloud storage. However, now that the event is over, these deals could end any minute, so we recommend making your selection soon to avoid disappointment. 

The best World Backup Day sales still available

  • Amazon: Save on SanDisk, WD, PNY and more.
  • Best Buy: Deals on storage from WD, PNY, Crucial and SanDisk.
  • Newegg: Hundreds of deals on internal and external storage.
  • B&H: Shop personal and professional storage products.
  • Samsung: Save on flash drives, microSD cards, SSDs and more.
  • Western Digital: Direct savings on WD and SanDisk products.

Below are highlights of some of the best deals you can still get your hands on, but prices are subject to change any time as deals expire. World Backup Day occurs every year on March 31.

External hard drive and SSD deals

Score this capacious and rugged portable SSD with up to 2-meter drop protection and IP55 water and dust resistance to protect its contents, along with speeds of up to 2,000MB/s. 

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Flash drive deals

With most new computers and tablets having switched to USB-C inputs, World Backup Day is a great opportunity to switch over your portable storage, and you can score this Samsung USB-C flash drive for under $30 right now.

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This memory card has a 128GB capacity with read speeds of 300MB/s and write speeds of 260MB/s, and is durable against magnets, shock, water, X-rays and temperature. 

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NAS deals

If you want a speedy SSD for gaming, the Samsung 980 Pro is a great choice. This model features a built-in heatsink (which saves you from adding one yourself), to help it stay cool under intense usage. 

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If you’re in the market for cloud storage and a VPN, a joint offering from ExpressVPN and Backblaze saves you $99 by bundling both services. You also get three extra months of VPN access for free with this deal. 

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