Western Digital SN850X PCIe 4.0 SSD

With a brave new era of PCIe Gen 5 SSDs for gaming just around the corner, for the PC at least, the new WD Black SN850X 1TB represents the last gasp for high-end Gen 4 SSDs. Unsurprisingly, then, this isn't a radical new design. Instead, it's a revision...

With what I call the second generation of Gen4 NVMe solid state drives we've had a lot of entries in the space already and it does seem that Western Digital is a little late to the party with the WD Black SN850X, but if you haven't picked up a Gen4...

Delivering over a million IOPS, speed at or near 7000MB/s read and 6300MB/s write, the WD_Black SN850X is a quantum leap over the competition. Now sporting a whopping 24GB of Cache, and Sony's PS5 endorsement, it makes this drive the one to get,...

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Western Digital touts the WD Black SN850X as a high-end PCIe 4.0 SSD for gaming that has options for RGB lighting and a heatsink, making it ready for the PlayStation 5 (PS5) or your PC. The 4TB model is especially enticing as many drives, like the SK...

WD’s Black SN850X is an excellent, and slightly more affordable alternative to Seagate’s might FireCuda 530. It’s also especially adept at real-world transfers and random operations.

WD succeeds in its ambition to tempt PC gamers and enthusiasts away from other brands plying the premium consumer SSD space. Want a big-name, no-nonsense SSD that makes a mockery of most benchmarks? WD Black SN850X 2TB fits the bill nicely.

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