WD Black SN850 1TB
Move over Samsung, there’s a new PCIe 4.0 storage king in town says Alan Dexter, as he reaches for the ermine-lined cloak.
The WD Black SN850 1TB drive is the fastest PCIe 4.0 NVMe solid-state drive you can buy right now. It may not top every test in every benchmark, but when it comes to real-world benchmarking, there’s nothing else that can touch it. Don’t get us wrong: it does well across the synthetic benchmarks, topping plenty of them, but there are a few places where the Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus (See LXF274) or the Samsung 980 Pro have the edge. Yet overall that doesn’t take away from the fact that this is the pinnacle of storage now.