Since 2022, Western Digital’s SN850X SSDs has been wowing us. We were particularly amused with a review of the 1TB NVMe SSD, calling it “face-meltingly fast.”
This is hardly surprising, as WD acquired SanDIsk in 2016. The company has now released an 8TB version of the WD_BLACK SN850X NVMe. it costs $849.99—with a heatsink, it’s $899.99.
According to Western Digital, the drive combines an in-house controller with KIOXIA-sourced 3D TLC NAND flash, and speeds of 7,200 MB/s sequential reads, up to 6,600 MB/s sequential writes, and 1.2 million IOPS 4K random reads/ writes. The new drive also comes with a five-year warranty. –CL