Used listings consistently post the lowest price per terabyte on this site. They also carry real risks that a price table cannot show you. Both are covered below, with 5 used drives tracked and priced daily. Updated November 13, 2026.
Cheapest used drive: Samsung 970 Evo Plus 2TB — $299.99 ($150.00/TB)
Versus new: about -26% cheaper per TB than the cheapest new NVMe drive we track ($118.74/TB)
The catch: little or no warranty, and unknown write wear — check the drive's SMART data on arrival
Amazon US prices as of November 13, 2026, 06:00 UTC; refreshed every day. $/TB is the listing price divided by raw capacity. Full methodology.
| $/TB | $/GB | Price | Capacity | Interface | Gen | Read | Write | NAND | Warranty | Cond. | Product |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $150.00BEST | $0.150 | $299.99 | 2 TB | M.2 NVMe | Gen 3 | 3,500 MB/s | 3,300 MB/s | TLC | — | Used | Samsung 970 Evo Plus 2TB· 3rd-partyAmazon ↗ |
| $160.00 | $0.160 | $319.99 | 2 TB | M.2 NVMe | Gen 3 | 3,500 MB/s | 2,700 MB/s | QLC | — | Used | Intel 670p 2TB· 3rd-partyAmazon ↗ |
| $175.00 | $0.175 | $349.99 | 2 TB | M.2 NVMe | Gen 4 | 5,000 MB/s | 4,200 MB/s | QLC | — | Used | Crucial P3 Plus 2TB· ships laterAmazon ↗ |
| $190.00 | $0.190 | $379.99 | 2 TB | M.2 NVMe | Gen 4 | 7,000 MB/s | 5,100 MB/s | TLC | — | Used | Samsung 980 Pro 2TB· 3rd-partyAmazon ↗ |
| $197.50 | $0.198 | $395.00 | 2 TB | M.2 NVMe | Gen 4 | 5,150 MB/s | 4,850 MB/s | TLC | — | Used | WD Black SN770 2TB· 3rd-partyAmazon ↗ |
There is no published index of used SSD prices, so the honest way to judge a second-hand listing is against the new price of the same model. Our rule of thumb: a used drive with a clean SMART report and most of its warranty left is fairly priced at 60–75% of the current new street price; one with heavy writes or no warranty at 40–55%. Below 40% is either an exceptional bargain or a problem drive.
In numbers: the dated street sample on our SSD Price Index runs $133–$250 per terabyte new (16 Oct 2026), with a median of $185/TB. A fair used price for a mainstream 1–2TB drive is therefore roughly $111–$139/TB, and a used 1TB drive should land around $111–$139. Divide any listing by its capacity in terabytes and check it with the price per TB calculator; a used drive that scores “in line with the street sample” is priced like a new one and is not a deal.
One shortage-era twist: because, on TrendForce’s quarterly forecasts, NAND contract prices are about 5.5× their 2023 trough and retail prices have followed, drives bought new in 2023–24 are being resold for more than their owners paid. That does not make them bad buys, but it means “half of what it cost new” sellers’ claims usually refer to today’s price, not the original one.
Used drives make sense for secondary storage where a failure costs you time rather than data: a game library that can be re-downloaded, a scratch disk for video work, or a second drive in a machine that already backs up somewhere else. In those roles the saving over a new drive is close to free money.
They make much less sense as a boot drive, as the only copy of anything you care about, or in a NAS where a rebuild depends on the drive holding up. The failure mode of a worn SSD is often abrupt: controllers can drop to read-only or disappear from the system entirely, with little of the gradual warning a failing hard drive gives.
“Used” on Amazon covers everything from an open-box return that was never installed to a drive pulled from a machine after three years of daily writes. The listing condition notes are worth reading closely — “Used — Like New” and “Used — Acceptable” can describe very different amounts of remaining life.
Manufacturer warranties on SSDs are usually tied to the original purchase date and often are not transferable, so assume you have the retailer's return window and nothing more. That window is exactly when you should be checking the drive.
Install CrystalDiskInfo on Windows, or run smartctl -a /dev/nvme0 on Linux, and look at three values: total bytes written, power-on hours, and the percentage-used or remaining-life indicator.
Rough guide: a consumer TLC drive is rated for roughly 600 TBW per terabyte of capacity, so a 2TB drive showing 50TB written has used a few percent of its rated endurance and is effectively fresh. One showing 800TB written on a 2TB drive is well into its second half. If the numbers look bad, return it inside the window rather than hoping.
Also confirm the drive reports the right model and capacity, and that its percentage-used counter is not already near 100. Counterfeit and re-labelled drives are rarer than on marketplaces like eBay, but the check costs two minutes.
The honest comparison is not used-versus-new in the abstract, it is this used drive against the cheapest new drive at the same capacity. At the moment that is $150.00/TB used against $118.74/TB new. When the gap narrows below roughly 25%, a new drive with a full warranty is usually the better decision; when it is wide, used wins for non-critical storage.
It is also worth checking what the used drive actually is. Several of the used listings we compare are former flagship drives — TLC NAND, DRAM cache, strong sustained writes — which can be a materially better drive than a new budget QLC model at the same price.