Western Digital SSD

Western Digital SSD

Western Digital
78 Overall Score
vs
SanDisk SSD

SanDisk SSD

SanDisk
89 Overall Score

Scores

Laptop
Western Digital
70
SanDisk
93
Workstation
Western Digital
78
SanDisk
90
Gaming
Western Digital
78
SanDisk
87
Budget
Western Digital
78
SanDisk
86
Console
Western Digital
77
SanDisk
83
Portable
Western Digital
20
SanDisk
23

Specifications

Western Digital SSDSanDisk SSD
Drive
Capacity
1,000
1,000
Form FactorM.2 2280M.2 2280
InterfacePCIe 4.0PCIe 5.0 x4
ProtocolNVMeNVMe
PCIe Generation45★
External✗✗
Performance
Sequential Read (MB/s)
7,000
14,900
Sequential Write (MB/s)
5,300
11,000
Random Read (IOPS)
1,000,000
2,300,000
Random Write (IOPS)
720,000
2,300,000
Hardware
NANDTLCTLC
DRAM Cache—✓★
Reliability
Endurance (TBW)
600
4,800
MTBF (hours)
1,750,000
1,750,000
Warranty (years)—1★
Features
Heatsink✓★✗
Hardware Encryption—✗

Pros & Cons

Western Digital SSD

  • Strong social proof (95th percentile)95th %ile
  • Strong random (92nd percentile)92nd %ile
  • Strong speed (79th percentile)
  • Strong feature (79th percentile)

SanDisk SSD

  • Strong random (99th percentile)99th %ile
  • Strong endurance (99th percentile)99th %ile
  • Strong speed (98th percentile)98th %ile
  • Strong social proof (95th percentile)95th %ile

Verdict

★ Winner: SanDisk SSD

Scores 89 overall, wins 6 of 6 usage categories and 8 of 17 specs.

SanDisk SSD Better at:

BudgetGamingLaptopConsolePortableWorkstation