Sandisk Reveals New WD_Black SSD, After Split From Western Digital

Despite Sandisk separating from Western Digital, the institution is inactive making and selling SSDs nether the WD brand. The institution conscionable revealed the WD_Black SN8100, a PCIe 5.0 SSD with lightning-fast work and constitute speeds.

This is simply a high-end NVMe SSD, offering awesome work and constitute speeds of up to 14,900 MB/s and 14,000 MB/s for the 2TB and 4TB models. Its random show goes beyond 2,300,000 IOPS, showing a large upgrade compared to older versions. The thrust comes successful sizes ranging from 1TB to 4TB, with an 8TB exemplary expected aboriginal this year.

The WD_Black SN8100 NVMe SSD is faster and uses overmuch little powerfulness than Sandisk’s earlier PCIe Gen 4.0 SSDs, with implicit 100% amended efficiency. This improved powerfulness ratio and an mean operating powerfulness of 7W oregon little assistance boost strategy show and trim the request for dense cooling solutions. The drive’s durability is besides impressive, with the 4TB exemplary rated for up to 2,400 TBW, meaning it tin grip demanding tasks similar high-resolution video editing, gaming, and AI applications.

Sandisk offers the WD_Black SN8100 successful 2 versions: a modular exemplary and 1 with a heatsink. The heatsink mentation uses a low-profile passive cooling strategy made of anodized aluminum, truthful it doesn’t request large fans oregon other power. A customizable RGB LED lets users lucifer the drive’s look to their PC setup.

Sandisk’s continued usage of the WD_Black marque aft splitting from Western Digital is interesting. Even though Sandisk is present autarkic and gathering its ain brand, it seems to beryllium taking vantage of the beardown estimation and lawsuit spot linked to the WD_Black brand, particularly successful gaming and high-performance computing.

This could mean that this instrumentality was already successful production, and the woody stated it could beryllium finished. In different words, this could beryllium the effect of existing licensing deals oregon impermanent agreements betwixt the 2 companies. If this continues, past determination whitethorn beryllium an ongoing partnership, adjacent aft the divided into its ain publicly-traded company. So Sandisk decidedly has the wealth to marque a caller line, but it's a bully thought to proceed an established victor for arsenic agelong arsenic possible. Either way, we'll person to hold and spot if much SSDs volition travel successful the WD_Black line.

You tin bargain each the models connected the authoritative Sandisk website. The modular WD_Black SN8100 SSD starts astatine $179.99 for the 1TB model, $279.99 for the 2TB model, and $549.99 for the 4TB model. The heatsink versions outgo a small more, with the 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB models priced astatine $199.99, $299.99, and $569.99, respectively.

Source: Sandisk