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
(90%)
153 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(96%)
171 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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Available in 500GB
1TB and 2TB capacities
PCIe 4.0 x4 interface with NVMe protocol
Equipped with 96-layer BiCS3 3D TLC NAND
Excellent sequential and random read and write speeds
Small M.2 2280 form factor
Large DRAM cache
Available with or without
Fastest drive we ever tested
PCI-Express 4.0 support
Large SLC cache
Good sustained write performance (for a TLC drive)
DRAM cache
Accurate temperature reporting
Five-year warranty
Compact form factor
Dominant results in PCMark 10 testing
Matched its rated read/write speeds
Available with or without heatsink
WD Black Dashboard software
RGB lighting
Extremely fast
Fastest 450GB write time to date
Competitive performance
Large dynamic SLC cache
Black PCB
Software package
5-year warranty
Excellent performance
Easy to use
Blistering PCIe 4.0 throughput
Excellent real
The editors didn't like
Write speed drops considerably when SLC cache is full
Can run hot under heavy workloads
Does not support hardware based encryption
Pricey
Expensive
No heatsink included (costs extra)
Largest capacity available is 2 TB
A touch pricey
Requires PCIe 4 compatible computer for best results
Published: 2021-12-19, Author: James , review by: impulsegamer.com
If you're looking to increase your hard drive space on your PS, then the WD_BLACK SN NVMe SSD is an affordable option but best of all, installation is easy and more importantly it burst the GB bubble of the stock PlayStation drive.Recommended!Official PS...
Published: 2021-06-12, Author: Michael , review by: cravingtech.com
Screams fast and probably the fastest PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSD on the planet at the momentProsMad read and write speed1M (million) IOPS random performanceHas RGB lightingComes with heatsink as an optionUp to 2TB capacityConsPriceDo you really need these extra s...
Published: 2021-01-31, Author: James , review by: impulsegamer.com
If you have the technology on your motherboard or looking to upgrade, the WD_BLACK SN NVMe is a super-sonic storage device that delivers excellent performance. While Windows booted quite fast, not to mention day to day activities such as accessing web pa...
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: 2020-11-25, Author: Jon , review by: tweaktown.com
We had no idea that Western Digital was cooking up an SSD that would prove to be the best performing consumer SSD to date. They have never done anything like that before. That's always been the realm of other big names. Well, not anymore, Western Digital...
Published: 2020-11-25, Author: Jon , review by: tweaktown.com
After testing the 1TB WD Black SN850 and witnessing its dominating performance, we were left wanting only one thing more, more of it. The 2TB model isn't quite as fast as the 1TB version, but the difference is minor, and we feel more than offset by its ex...
Published: 2021-04-19, Author: Darren , review by: futurefive.co.nz
Abstract: I've always said that you can never have enough storage. Now that our systems are filled with terabytes of storage the emphasis has turned to drive speed. Whilst traditional hard disk prices have tumbled, their speeds have, for the most part, plateaued. ...
Published: 2020-11-30, Author: Jon , review by: pcworld.co.nz
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...
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...
