Western Digital WD_BLACK SN8100

Western Digital WD_BLACK SN8100

Western Digital
90 Overall Score
vs
ADATA SSD

ADATA SSD

ADATA
32 Overall Score

Scores

Laptop
Western Digital
96
ADATA
31
Workstation
Western Digital
92
ADATA
29
Gaming
Western Digital
90
ADATA
19
Budget
Western Digital
88
ADATA
40
Console
Western Digital
86
ADATA
10
Portable
Western Digital
24
ADATA
8

Specifications

Western Digital WD_BLACK SN8100ADATA SSD
Drive
Capacity
2,000
256
Form FactorM.2 22802.5"
InterfacePCIe 5.0 x4SATA III
ProtocolNVMeSATA
PCIe Generation5★—
External✗✗
Performance
Sequential Read (MB/s)
14,900
520
Sequential Write (MB/s)
14,000
450
Random Read (IOPS)
2,300,000
No data
Random Write (IOPS)
2,400,000
No data
Hardware
NANDTLCTLC
DRAM Cache✓★✗
Reliability
Endurance (TBW)
1,200
No data
MTBF (hours)
1,750,000
2,000,000
Warranty (years)33
Features
Heatsink✗—
Hardware Encryption✓★—

Pros & Cons

Western Digital WD_BLACK SN8100

  • Strong speed (100th percentile)100th %ile
  • Strong random (99th percentile)99th %ile
  • Strong feature (97th percentile)97th %ile
  • Strong endurance (81st percentile)81st %ile

ADATA SSD

  • Below average speed (16th percentile)16th %ile
  • Below average capacity (17th percentile)17th %ile
  • Below average random (22nd percentile)

Pricing

ADATA SSD is $262 cheaper (2.9x less).

Western Digital WD_BLACK SN8100

ADATA SSD

Verdict

★ Winner: Western Digital WD_BLACK SN8100

Scores 90 overall, wins 6 of 6 usage categories and 9 of 17 specs.

Western Digital WD_BLACK SN8100 Better at:

BudgetGamingLaptopConsolePortableWorkstation

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