Western Digital SSD

Western Digital SSD

Western Digital
50 Overall Score
vs
SanDisk SSD

SanDisk SSD

SanDisk
89 Overall Score

Scores

Laptop
Western Digital
57
SanDisk
93
Workstation
Western Digital
50
SanDisk
90
Gaming
Western Digital
45
SanDisk
87
Budget
Western Digital
51
SanDisk
86
Console
Western Digital
33
SanDisk
82
Portable
Western Digital
14
SanDisk
23

Specifications

Western Digital SSDSanDisk SSD
Drive
Capacity
512
1,000
Form FactorM.2 2280M.2 2280
InterfacePCIe 4.0PCIe 5.0 x4
ProtocolNVMeNVMe
PCIe Generation45★
External✗✗
Performance
Sequential Read (MB/s)
5,000
14,900
Sequential Write (MB/s)
4,000
11,000
Random Read (IOPS)
460,000
2,300,000
Random Write (IOPS)
800,000
2,300,000
Hardware
NAND—TLC★
DRAM Cache—✓★
Reliability
Endurance (TBW)No data
4,800
MTBF (hours)No data
1,750,000
Warranty (years)11
Features
Heatsink—✗
Hardware Encryption—✗

Pros & Cons

Western Digital SSD

  • Strong random (88th percentile)88th %ile
  • Strong speed (71st percentile)
  • Strong social proof (70th percentile)
  • Below average feature (14th percentile)14th %ile
  • Below average user sentiment (28th percentile)
  • Below average endurance (33rd percentile)
  • Below average capacity (34th percentile)

SanDisk SSD

  • Strong random (99th percentile)99th %ile
  • Strong endurance (99th percentile)99th %ile
  • Strong speed (98th percentile)98th %ile
  • Strong social proof (96th percentile)96th %ile

Verdict

★ Winner: SanDisk SSD

Scores 89 overall, wins 6 of 6 usage categories and 10 of 17 specs.

SanDisk SSD Better at:

BudgetGamingLaptopConsolePortableWorkstation