WD_BLACK SN770 2TB M.2 2280 Game Drive PCIe Gen4 NVMe up to 5150 MB/s

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We should also point out that a huge part of the winning combination for the SN770 is the 512Gbit 112 Layer BiCS 5 flash it's arrayed with.

Copying the Steam folder for Counter-Strike Global Offensive from an external SSD to the system drive. heatsink and even with a 1-minute cool-down between each test, the SSD reached the 60 degrees mark very quickly. The WD Black SN850, the Crucial P5 Plus, and the Samsung SSD 980 Pro match its rated 600TBW for the 1TB model and 1,200TBW for 2TB, while the Kingston KC3000 has slightly higher ratings of 800TBW for 1TB and 1,600TBW for 2TB.By entering your mobile phone number, you agree to receive communication via text message from Western Digital that includes news, offers and updates and acknowledge Western Digital's Privacy Statement. BiCS 5 is true 4-plane flash and, as we've pointed out previously and provided it's managed by a controller running firmware that plays nice with it, is by far the best-performing flash currently adorning consumer SSDs. We put the WD Black SN770 through our internal solid-state drive benchmarks including PCMark 10 Storage and Crystal DiskMark 6. Crystal DiskMark's sequential speed tests provide a traditional measure of drive throughput, simulating best-case, straight-line transfers of large files. You can not really fault the WD Black SN850 SSD in terms of what Western Digital has said this drive can do, as it not only meets those expectations consistently but also exceeds it more often than not by a few degrees.

Up to 40% faster and up to 20% better power efficiency at maximum speed as compared to our last gen product, the 1TB WD_BLACK SN750 SE SSD. It will not backup or pull data hosted remotely in Cloud Services such as Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, OneDrive.

Its PCMark 10 overall score was better, though the Atom beat it in loading Windows and launching Adobe programs and games.

By far, the best of this new class of value-centric hyper-performing SSDs is Western Digital's SN770. Western Digital first coined the colours system of differentiating their HDD/SSD ranges a decade ago and although a few brands have attempted to emulate this simple but effective means to understand the intended purpose of a drive quickly, no one has quite nailed it as well as WD and their portfolio colours system (Red = NAS, Blue = Domestic/Home PC, Purple = Surveillance, Gold = Data Center, Green = Power Efficient and Black = Gamer and Content Creator). After all, the SN770 is the overall most powerful consumer SSD WD has ever brought forth in terms of real-world performance.Recording a 1080p gameplay video at 60 FPS with OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) while playing Overwatch. So, if you are running a middle of the road PC that perhaps was never going to max out the WD Black SN850 SSD, the WD Black SN550 makes a compelling argument as a more realistic choice.