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Western Digital WD_BLACK SN850 500GB PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe M.2 2280
Capacity 500GB
Form Factor M.2 2280
Interface PCIe 4.0 x4
Read Speed 7,000 MB/s
NAND TLC
DRAM Cache Yes
Endurance 300 TBW
65 Overall Score
Price $350
Snapshot
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Strong feature (94th percentile) 94th
- Strong random (90th percentile) 90th
- Strong speed (78th percentile) 78th
- Strong endurance (71st percentile) 71st
Cons
- Below average social proof (23rd percentile)
- Below average capacity (26th percentile)
The proof
Performance
Specifications
Full Specifications
Drive
| Capacity | 500 |
| Form Factor | M.2 2280 |
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x4 |
| Protocol | NVMe |
| PCIe Generation | 4 |
| External | No |
Performance
| Sequential Read (MB/s) | 7000 |
| Sequential Write (MB/s) | 4100 |
| Random Read (IOPS) | 810000 |
| Random Write (IOPS) | 680000 |
Hardware
| NAND | TLC |
| DRAM Cache | Yes |
Reliability
| Endurance (TBW) | 300 |
| MTBF (hours) | 1750000 |
Features
| Heatsink | Yes |
vs Competition
| Spec | Western Digital WD_BLACK SN850 | Samsung 9100 PRO | Kingston FURY Renegade G5 SFYR2S/4T0 | Crucial T500 | SanDisk WD_BLACK WDS400T2XHE | Seagate FireCuda 530R |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capacity | 500GB | 4TB | 4TB | 2TB | 4TB | 4TB |
| Form Factor | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 |
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x4 | PCIe 5.0 x4 | PCIe 5.0 x4 | PCIe 4.0 x4 | PCIe 4.0 | PCIe 4.0 x4 |
| Seq Read | 7,000 MB/s | 14,800 MB/s | 14,800 MB/s | 7,400 MB/s | 7,300 MB/s | 7,400 MB/s |
| Nand Type | TLC | TLC | TLC | TLC | TLC | TLC |
| Dram Cache | true | true | true | true | true | false |
| Endurance | 300 TBW | 2400 TBW | 4000 TBW | 1200 TBW | 2400 TBW | 5050 TBW |
| Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare |
| Product | Speed | Random | Feature | Capacity | Endurance | Social Proof |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Western Digital WD_BLACK SN850 | 77.7 | 90 | 93.5 | 26.3 | 71 | 22.9 |
| Samsung 9100 PRO Compare | 99.1 | 99.8 | 99.7 | 92.5 | 85.8 | 99.6 |
| Kingston FURY Renegade G5 SFYR2S/4T0 Compare | 99.4 | 98.7 | 90.4 | 92.5 | 93.4 | 86.8 |
| Crucial T500 Compare | 93.8 | 96.5 | 98.9 | 78.3 | 82.8 | 95.2 |
| SanDisk WD_BLACK WDS400T2XHE Compare | 88.5 | 95.2 | 93.5 | 92.5 | 80.7 | 95.2 |
| Seagate FireCuda 530R Compare | 92.5 | 96.4 | 53.4 | 92.5 | 95.6 | 77.4 |
Price
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