Testseek.com have collected 153 expert reviews of the Western Digital M.2 Black SN850 Series NVMe PCIe and the average rating is 90%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Western Digital M.2 Black SN850 Series NVMe PCIe.
December 2020
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Strong performance
Easy to install
Comes with heatsink for plug-and-play PS5 installation
Published: 2020-11-30, Author: Michael , review by: phoronix.com
Abstract: This month Western Digital introduced the WD_BLACK SN850 as the latest PCI Express 4.0 solid-state drive hitting the market. The WD_BLACK SN850 is a surprisingly strong performer if looking to upgrade to PCIe 4.0 solid-state storage, competing with the fa...
The WD Black SN850 is a fantastic NVMe SSD, proving itself a little to a lot faster writing large files than other drives. The Samsung 980 Pro is a faster reader and probably the better all-around performer, but by a rather slim margin. If you're looking...
Published: 2020-11-19, Author: Les , review by: thessdreview.com
The strength of the WD_Black SN850 Gen 4 NVMe SSD is a very welcome introduction to the SSD arena as it contains a WD/SanDisk proprietary 8-channel controller that nobody really expected to perform as it does. It is the poker hand that nobody saw coming...
It is great to see PCIe Gen4 drives to be hitting the storage market in force. It feels like we've been waiting forever for PCIe 4.0 drives to come! The initial performance of the WD_Black SN850 is impressive and the timing of its release is likely no acc...
Abstract: Western Digital is dialing up the performance with a few new SSDs aimed at enthusiasts. These include the WD_Black SN850, the WD_Black AN1500, and the WD_Black D50 Game Drive, which all take different approaches to delivering blistering data transfer spee...
Abstract: If you're upgrading or building a PC, the WD Black SN850 makes a superb system drive. It takes advantage of the huge bandwidth of the PCI Express Gen4 bus to offer performance rival SSDs can't match: in our tests it achieved a sequential read speed of alm...
Excellent performance, Up to 2TB, Competitive prices, Heatsink option
Can get warm without heatsink, No hardware encryption, Write speeds vary
All PCIe 4.0 drives I've tested so far have a weakness, often overheating. But in this case, it also doesn't have hardware encryption, and the heatsink model is outrageously overpriced.However, there are potential performance benefits available here if yo...
Couldn’t hit the maximum 4K figures under testing,
WD has been hard at work expanding its Black gaming and high-performance range of products. We recently looked at WD's AN1500 add-in-card (review here) which delivered PCIe Gen 4-like speeds but over the PCIe Gen-3 interface. Now, with the Black SN850, we...
