In late 2023, storage company Western Digital announced plans to split itself into two companies. One, which would still be called Western Digital, would focus on spinning hard drives, which are no ...

Sandisk's WD Blue SN5100—a DRAM-less PCI Express 4.0 internal SSD with QLC NAND flash memory—has a lot of strong points. It performed well in our testing, especially in our general-storage and ...

Sandisk launches WD_BLACK SN8100, a flagship Gen5 SSD. It offers high-speed performance for desktops and workstations. The SSD targets power users with demanding tasks. It is available in 1TB, 2TB, ...

At the right (low) price, this drive will deliver the PCIe 4.0 goods and deliver them Consistently. It’s new QLC also offers a significantly faster native write rate than previous generations. When ...

Gamers have a new Gen 5 SSD to consider for their next upgrade. Sandisk released its WD_Black SN8100 NVMe SSD, which, it claims, offers sequential read speeds up to 14,900MBps. Sandisk says that its ...

The WD Black SN8100 (starts at $179.99 for 1TB, $279.99 for 2TB as tested) is the first WD-branded PCI Express 5.0 solid-state drive (SSD) to come to market, but it was well worth the wait. The SN8100 ...

Just as we thought we'd seen the last of the WD brand in the SSD world, a brand new WD Black SN8100 gaming SSD has now reared its head in a number of places. According to the sources, the new drive ...

WD’s Black SN850 was already one of our favourite M.2 SSDs. This new WD Black SN850X isn’t a revolutionary step forward by most measures. It’s even a little disappointing when it comes to 4K random ...

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WD's Red series of products such as hard disks has long been seen as premium and high-performing products with an emphasis on network attached storage use, but the company has finally released a ...

When something from Western Digital is designated WD_BLACK, it tells you the product is held to WD's highest performance standards. On our bench today, we have the newest member of the WD_BLACK family ...

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