WD Black SN850 Black Friday Sales 2023: The time has come for gamers and other aficionados of technology who are hungry for storage to upgrade their devices at a price that is affordable to them. Even if many PC components, such as the latest generation of DDR5 memory, are still hard to come by as a result of the global shortage of microchips, Best Buy in the United States is currently offering a fantastic Black Friday discount on a highly speedy 1TB SSD manufactured by Western Digital.
WD Black SN850 SSD Black Friday Sales 2023
WD Black SN850 SSD: Review
Western Digital has unveiled the second iteration of their in-house NVMe SSD controller design to achieve this level of performance. We don’t know exactly how this controller differs from their original design, but it’s safe to assume that nearly every component of the chip has undergone significant improvement. The SN850 benefits from an upgrade to the NAND flash memory from 64-layer to 96-layer TLC when compared to the earlier WD Black SN750. Although Western Digital’s retail consumer Gen 3 drives didn’t receive a corresponding refresh, their client OEM SSD product line had already adopted the 96L TLC with the PC SN730.
The capacity with the highest performance requirements is the 1TB WD Black SN850, which is the sample we are reviewing. We are testing the less expensive plain version of the SN850 from Western Digital, which is available as either a standard M.2 SSD or an M.2 SSD with a heatsink and RGB lighting. We found that both the earlier WD Black SN750 and the rival Samsung 980 PRO perform well without additional cooling, so we anticipate that the SN850 with the heatsink will only be a cosmetic upgrade. However, the stylized heatsink and RGB lighting significantly increase the price.
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