Western Digital BLACK SN850X

Western Digital BLACK SN850X

Western Digital
86 Overall Score
vs
ADATA SSD

ADATA SSD

ADATA
32 Overall Score

Scores

Workstation
Western Digital
86
ADATA
29
Budget
Western Digital
86
ADATA
40
Gaming
Western Digital
84
ADATA
20
Console
Western Digital
84
ADATA
10
Laptop
Western Digital
77
ADATA
31
Portable
Western Digital
22
ADATA
7

Specifications

Western Digital BLACK SN850XADATA SSD
Drive
Capacity
1,000
256
Form FactorM.2 22802.5"
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x4SATA III
ProtocolNVMeSATA
PCIe Generation4★—
External✗✗
Performance
Sequential Read (MB/s)
7,300
520
Sequential Write (MB/s)
6,350
450
Random Read (IOPS)
800,000
No data
Random Write (IOPS)
1,100,000
No data
Hardware
NANDTLCTLC
DRAM Cache✗✗
Reliability
Endurance (TBW)
600
No data
MTBF (hours)
1,750,000
2,000,000
Warranty (years)5★3
Features
Heatsink✗—
Hardware Encryption✗—

Pros & Cons

Western Digital BLACK SN850X

  • Strong social proof (96th percentile)96th %ile
  • Strong feature (94th percentile)94th %ile
  • Strong random (93rd percentile)93rd %ile
  • Strong endurance (88th percentile)88th %ile

ADATA SSD

  • Below average speed (17th percentile)17th %ile
  • Below average capacity (17th percentile)17th %ile
  • Below average random (22nd percentile)

Verdict

★ Winner: Western Digital BLACK SN850X

Scores 86 overall, wins 6 of 6 usage categories and 8 of 17 specs.

Western Digital BLACK SN850X Better at:

BudgetGamingLaptopConsolePortableWorkstation