WD_BLACK SN770 2TB M.2 2280 Game Drive PCIe Gen4 NVMe up to 5150 MB/s

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This drive clearly demonstrated that power-hungry, fire-breathing 8-channel controllers and expensive onboard DRAM are no longer required for hyper-class performance. com is a leading authority on technology, delivering lab-based, independent reviews of the latest products and services.

Conversely, QLC-based drives like the Mushkin Delta and the Sabrent Rocket Q4 are less durable, rated at just 200TBW for 1TB, 400TBW for 2TB, and 800TBW for 4TB.Gaming is a performance metric that matters to the majority of DIY consumers, especially to the enthusiast crowd that TweakTown caters to. It is quite impressive that the 2TB SN770 is the fastest of the Gen4 5,000 MB/s class SSDs, even outpacing several 8-channel drives with onboard DRAM and its smaller sibling to boot. The sequential read speed benchmark gives an indication of the SSD performance when reading large files.

The SN770 offers the admirable WD Dashboard drive management software, but lacks the desirable 256-bit AES encryption of the Atom 50. There is also support for standard SSD management components such as Trim, SMART and secure erase capability via the Format NVM command.The 2TB model is almost as fast as the 1TB model, our current performance champion for the Americas, but offers twice the capacity. Plenty of highlighting of the performance, lots of branded logos shining and a very confidently presented retail kit. internal SSDs using a desktop testbed with an MSI X570 motherboard and AMD Ryzen CPU, 16GB of Corsair Dominator DDR4 memory clocked to 3,600MHz, and a discrete graphics card. So operations that are larger in scope of sustained over a longer period of time result in the memory-flushing that this smaller area on onboard memory needs to be too low in frequency for higher performance to be maintained. Nevertheless, 9,000 points still lands our 2TB test subject in pretty good company, especially considering this is a DRAMless SSD.