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Western Digital Red SN700
Capacity 500GB
Form Factor M.2 2280
Interface PCIe 3.0 x4
Read Speed 3,430 MB/s
Endurance 1000 TBW
55 Overall Score
Price $163
Snapshot
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Strong endurance (97th percentile) 97th
- Strong random (84th percentile) 84th
- Strong social proof (71st percentile) 71st
Cons
- Below average user sentiment (2nd percentile)
- Below average feature (14th percentile)
- Below average capacity (26th percentile)
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The proof
Performance
Specifications
Full Specifications
Drive
| Capacity | 500 |
| Form Factor | M.2 2280 |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x4 |
| Protocol | NVMe |
| PCIe Generation | 3 |
| External | No |
Performance
| Sequential Read (MB/s) | 3430 |
| Sequential Write (MB/s) | 2600 |
| Random Read (IOPS) | 420000 |
| Random Write (IOPS) | 380000 |
Reliability
| Endurance (TBW) | 1000 |
| MTBF (hours) | 1750000 |
vs Competition
| Spec | Western Digital Red SN700 | Samsung 990 PRO | Crucial T710 | SanDisk WD_Black SN8100 WDS100T1X0M | Corsair MP700 Elite | Seagate Game Drive for PS ZP2000GP3A1001 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capacity | 500GB | 2TB | 2TB | 1TB | 2TB | 2TB |
| Form Factor | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x4 | PCIe 4.0 x4 | PCIe 5.0 x4 | PCIe 5.0 x4 | PCIe 5.0 x4 | PCIe 4.0 x4 |
| Seq Read | 3,430 MB/s | 7,450 MB/s | 14,900 MB/s | 14,900 MB/s | 10,000 MB/s | 7,300 MB/s |
| Nand Type | - | TLC | TLC | TLC | TLC | TLC |
| Dram Cache | - | true | true | true | true | - |
| Endurance | 1000 TBW | 1200 TBW | 1200 TBW | 4800 TBW | 1200 TBW | 1275 TBW |
| Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare |
| Product | Speed | Random | Feature | Capacity | User Sentiment | Endurance | Social Proof |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Western Digital Red SN700 | 58.3 | 83.7 | 14.3 | 25.9 | 1.5 | 96.7 | 70.8 |
| Samsung 990 PRO Compare | 93.2 | 96.9 | 99 | 78.4 | 79.3 | 86 | 95.6 |
| Crucial T710 Compare | 99.3 | 98.7 | 97.4 | 78.4 | 0 | 83 | 79.7 |
| SanDisk WD_Black SN8100 WDS100T1X0M Compare | 97.4 | 99 | 90.6 | 54.6 | 0 | 99 | 95.6 |
| Corsair MP700 Elite Compare | 94.6 | 96.4 | 99.8 | 78.4 | 79.3 | 87.3 | 39.1 |
| Seagate Game Drive for PS ZP2000GP3A1001 Compare | 82 | 91.4 | 78.5 | 78.4 | 0 | 90 | 88.5 |
Price
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