Released in May 2022, the Western Digital WD Black SN850X SSD are the manufacturer’s proposal for storage solutions for the M.2 PCIe 4.0 SSD market. Since its arrival on the market, the company has been updating the higher capacity models to reach more and more Terabytes.
Right now, almost silently, Western DigitaHe has published it on his website a new version of the WD Black with no less than 8 TB of capacity. This joins the existing models, which currently have 1 TB, 2 TB and 4 TB. All of them made with the company’s TLC 3D NAND memory.
This new 8 TB variant will be available with or without a dedicated heatsink depending on whether we are going to use it in a laptop or computer without space for a heatsink (or with its own heatsink solution), or in a motherboard without its own heatsink.
In the 1 to 4 TB models we have up to 7,300 MB/s sequential read. Curiously, this 8 TB variant lowers its speed to 7,200 MB/s, a difference that is negligible. The sequential write speed will be the same, with 6.6 GB/s, while the random speed reaches 1,000 MB/s. 1.2 billion read/write IOPS.
The price will be $849.99 for the version without a heatsink, and $899.99 for the model with an integrated heatsink.
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Antonio Delgado
Computer Engineer by training, editor and hardware analyst at Geeknetic since 2011. I love to dissect everything that passes through my hands, especially the latest hardware that we receive here to do reviews. In my free time I tinker with 3D printers, drones and other gadgets. For anything you need, here I am.
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