8TB of Speedy SSD at an Epic Low Price
For most people, even a 4TB SSD seems luxurious. But, if you need more storage and you don’t want (or aren’t able to) combined multiple drives in the same system, an 8TB drive is ideal. There aren’t many 8TB drives on the market, but WD Black’s SN850X is available in this spacious capacity and its now on sale for just $549 at Amazon, reduced from $694.
The SN850X 8TB is a PCIe Gen 4 drive that’s rated for 7,200 MB/s sequential reads, 6,600 MB/s and 1.2 million IOPS for read and write. It has a five year warranty and write endurance of 4,800 TBW (terabytes written).
| Product | 8TB |
|---|---|
| Pricing | $549.99 |
| Form Factor | M.2 2280 DS |
| Interface / Protocol | PCIe 4.0 x4 / NVMe 1.4 |
| Controller | Proprietary (Triton MP16+ B2) |
| DRAM | DDR4 |
| Flash Memory | Kioxia 162-Layer TLC (BiCS6) |
| Sequential Read | 7,200 MB/s |
| Sequential Write | 6,600 MB/s |
| Random Read | 1,200K IOPS |
| Random Write | 1,200K IOPS |
| Security | TCG OPAL 2.01 |
| Endurance (TBW) | 4,800TB |
| Part Number | w/HS | WDS800T2X0E WDS200TXHE |
| PS5-Compatible HS | Yes |
| Dimensions w/HS | 80mm (L) x 24.46mm (W) x 10.31mm (H) |
| Warranty | 5-Year |
The WD Black SN850X is also the fastest 8TB drive we’ve tested, easily outpacing competitors on both latency and bandwidth tests.
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In short, this is a high-performing, high-capacity drive at an epic low price.
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