WD Black SN850 NVMe SSD: Fantastic sustained write speeds via PCIe 4.0
The WD Black SN850 gives you a second great choice when it comes to pick-of-the-litter NVMe SSDs—Samsung’s 980 Pro being the other. This assumes, of course, that your motherboard sports a cutting-edge PCIe 4.0 interface. Currently that means late-generation AMD Ryzen with Intel’s next-gen piling on soon. If that’s not you, a PCIe 4 SSD is still a good way to future-proof your performance.
The 2280 (22mm), 1TB (), and 2TB (the capacity we tested, ). That’s pricier than the average entry-level drives, but in the same ballpark with the Samsung 980 Pro. DDR4 cache is used to the tune of about 500MB for 500GB, 1GB for the 1TB, and just over 2GB for the 2TB drive.
