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Western Digital has announced its first PCIe 4.0 M.2 NVMe SSDs, the WD Black SN850, and they will offer fast read / write speeds of up to 7,000MB / s and 5,300MB / s which should help reduce load times on your PC. and in games.
Those speeds are a notable increase from the SN750’s 3,100MB / s and 1,600MB / s read / write speeds, and are on par (with a slightly faster write speed) with the recently announced PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs. Samsung.
Because they are standard M.2 NVMe SSDs, the SN850s should work in most gaming PCs, as long as you have a compatible motherboard. In theory, they could double as storage expansions for the PlayStation 5, but Sony has yet to say which units will be certified as compatible with its next-gen console. (The Xbox Series X / S, on the other hand, has proprietary expandable storage.)
Western Digital’s new SSDs will come in 500GB, 1TB and 2TB capacities and should be available for purchase “before the end of October 2020,” according to the company.
