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Western Digital Red SN700
Capacity 500GB
Form Factor M.2 2280
Interface PCIe 3.0 x4
Read Speed 3,430 MB/s
Endurance 1000 TBW
55 Overall Score
No current retailer price
Snapshot
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Strong endurance (97th percentile) 97th
- Strong random (84th percentile) 84th
- Strong social proof (71st percentile) 71st
Cons
- Below average user sentiment (2nd percentile)
- Below average feature (14th percentile)
- Below average capacity (26th percentile)
What owners think
How owner sentiment changed over time
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25/100Our AI sentiment read
The proof
Performance
Specifications
Full Specifications
Drive
| Capacity | 500 |
| Form Factor | M.2 2280 |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x4 |
| Protocol | NVMe |
| PCIe Generation | 3 |
| External | No |
Performance
| Sequential Read (MB/s) | 3430 |
| Sequential Write (MB/s) | 2600 |
| Random Read (IOPS) | 420000 |
| Random Write (IOPS) | 380000 |
Reliability
| Endurance (TBW) | 1000 |
| MTBF (hours) | 1750000 |
vs Competition
| Spec | Western Digital Red SN700 | Samsung 9100 PRO | Crucial T500 | Kingston Fury Renegade SFYRDK/2000G | Seagate FireCuda 530R | SanDisk Western Digital WDS400T1X0M |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capacity | 500GB | 8TB | 2TB | 2TB | 4TB | 4TB |
| Form Factor | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x4 | PCIe 5.0 x4 | PCIe 4.0 x4 | PCIe 4.0 x4 | PCIe 4.0 x4 | PCIe 5.0 x4 |
| Seq Read | 3,430 MB/s | 14,800 MB/s | 7,400 MB/s | 7,300 MB/s | 7,400 MB/s | 14,900 MB/s |
| Nand Type | - | TLC | TLC | TLC | TLC | TLC |
| Dram Cache | - | true | true | true | false | true |
| Endurance | 1000 TBW | 4800 TBW | 1200 TBW | 2000 TBW | 5050 TBW | 2400 TBW |
| Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare |
| Product | Speed | Random | Feature | Capacity | User Sentiment | Endurance | Social Proof |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Western Digital Red SN700 | 58.9 | 84.1 | 14.1 | 25.9 | 1.5 | 96.5 | 70.6 |
| Samsung 9100 PRO Compare | 99 | 99.8 | 99.7 | 98.1 | 0 | 85.8 | 95.6 |
| Crucial T500 Compare | 93.8 | 96.4 | 99 | 78.2 | 79 | 82.9 | 95.6 |
| Kingston Fury Renegade SFYRDK/2000G Compare | 92.9 | 93.7 | 93.8 | 78.2 | 66.7 | 93.8 | 95.6 |
| Seagate FireCuda 530R Compare | 92.5 | 96.3 | 52.9 | 92.6 | 64.9 | 95.4 | 88.5 |
| SanDisk Western Digital WDS400T1X0M Compare | 97.5 | 99.1 | 97.5 | 92.6 | 0 | 80.9 | 0 |
Usage Scores
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