Elden Ring is one of the best PC games of the year – one of the RPS Bestest Bests, in fact – and right now you can get it for free with the purchase of a Crucial SSD. At Ebuyer, nine different drives are available as part of the promotion, including the super-fast P5 Plus NVMe drive, the reliable MX500 SATA drive, and the great value Crucial P2 economical NVMe drive.

So first, let’s look at the case. The way it works is that you get a voucher for Elden Ring on Gamesplanet, where you can get a key for the game on Steam. Some of the promotion readers also come with a free copy of Guild Wars 2, which is fine.

Now let’s move on to readers’ choice. Here is the full list of options:

• Crucial P5 Plus (6600MB/s): 1TB / 2TB
• Crucial P2 NVMe (2400 MB/s): 2 TB
• Crucial MX500 (560MB/s): 2TB / 4TB
• Crucial X8 (USB 1050 MB/s): 1 TB / 2 TB
• Crucial X6 (USB 540MB/s): 2TB / 4TB

The P5 Plus is a great shoutout for PC and PS5, delivering state-of-the-art PCIe 4.0 speeds. This NVMe drive is an excellent choice for gaming or content creation workloads, and to take full advantage of future DirectStorage titles. If you focus more on value, the P2 NVMe drive offers about half the sequential speeds and slightly lower sustained performance at a considerably lower price. The MX500 is a SATA drive, so it’s again slower, but may be the only choice for laptops or desktops without free NVMe-capable M.2 slots.

Finally, the portable options: the X6 and X8. Both connect via full-size USB or USB-C, delivering SSD speeds in a compact form factor. I use one of these drives to transfer video footage from computer to computer (or computer to TV), but they’re also great for portable game storage. The X8 is about twice as fast as the X6, at 1050MB/s to 540MB/s, which you’ll definitely notice for copying large files, but probably not for game load times.

I think all of these discs are good and fairly competitively priced against cheaper UK retailers (eg Amazon), so consider picking one up with one of our favorite games of 2022!