Western Digital BLACK SN850X

Western Digital BLACK SN850X

Western Digital
95 Overall Score
vs
ADATA SSD

ADATA SSD

ADATA
39 Overall Score

Scores

Laptop
Western Digital
100
ADATA
40
Budget
Western Digital
97
ADATA
53
Gaming
Western Digital
95
ADATA
25
Workstation
Western Digital
95
ADATA
34
Console
Western Digital
91
ADATA
13
Portable
Western Digital
26
ADATA
10

Specifications

Western Digital BLACK SN850XADATA SSD
Drive
Capacity
4,000
512
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)
6,600
450
Random Read (IOPS)
1,200,000
No data
Random Write (IOPS)
1,100,000
No data
Hardware
NANDTLCTLC
DRAM Cache✓★✗
ControllerWD 20-82-20035-B1—
Reliability
Endurance (TBW)
2,400
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 (100th percentile)100th %ile
  • Strong random (95th percentile)95th %ile
  • Strong capacity (93rd percentile)93rd %ile
  • Strong feature (89th percentile)89th %ile

ADATA SSD

  • Strong social proof (80th percentile)80th %ile
  • Below average speed (16th percentile)16th %ile
  • Below average random (22nd percentile)
  • Below average capacity (34th percentile)

Verdict

★ Winner: Western Digital BLACK SN850X

Scores 95 overall, wins 6 of 6 usage categories and 9 of 18 specs.

Western Digital BLACK SN850X Better at:

BudgetGamingLaptopConsolePortableWorkstation