WD blows hinges off PCIe 4.0 SSD doors, the new champion to beat?

WD comes out like a wrecking ball, has Sabrent, Samsung and most importantly -- your wallet in its sights, check these results!!

@anthony256

Published Nov 6, 2020 10:03 PM CST
Updated Dec 7, 2020 7:15 PM CST

56 seconds read time

Everyone is talking about Samsung's 980 Pro, and Phison's E18 Gen4 SSDs. However, everyone kind of forgot about the WD Black SN850 (reviewed here). Well, everyone will be paying close attention going forward. In our most important metrics, Western Digital's Gen4 Black SN850 2TB SSD is serving up numbers that we've not seen before from a Gen4 SSD. Take a look for yourselves:

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Starting with Anvil's, new scoring record for any flash based SSD. MAX IOPS, random read IOPS, new record for any flash based SSD. Gaming, best we've ever seen from a flash based, high-capacity SSD. And consumer workloads, by FAR the best we've seen from any flash-based SSD.

Sabrent Rocket Q4 4TB NVMe SSD -- 21,040
Samsung 980 PRO 1TB NVMe SSD -- 23,101

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Our full review is coming very soon!

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Anthony Garreffa

Anthony joined the TweakTown team in 2010 and has since reviewed 100s of graphics cards. Anthony is a long time PC enthusiast with a passion of hate for games built around consoles. FPS gaming since the pre-Quake days, where you were insulted if you used a mouse to aim, he has been addicted to gaming and hardware ever since. Working in IT retail for 10 years gave him great experience with custom-built PCs. His addiction to GPU tech is unwavering and has recently taken a keen interest in artificial intelligence (AI) hardware.