have a wd black 1tb 850x for the os drive and a 1tb cardea z440 for the secondary. I have had them for over a year now but good to see that all my time reviewing parts online back then wasn't completely wrong lol
SShhhh! Don't share this video too far and wide or my discount source in the US(walmart) will have supplies drying up. This is by far the best performing nvme I can get off the store shelf in my area for under $100 per TB.
At the same price for 2TB, would you recommend as a laptop main drive this sn850x or the Samsung 990 EVO? I know the Samsung doesn't have DRAM but it is well positioned on your charts.
There are actually 2 different versions of the SN850X. They are WDBB9G0020BNC-WRSN and WDS200T2X0E. I have no idea which version to buy or avoid. There is very little information on the internet regarding the difference. Can someone please help? I see both of these listed on Amazon and the WRSN version is usually a little less expensive.
Read online that they’re the exact same besides the “wdbb9g0020bnc-wrsn” one is a best buy model number exclusive while the other is all other online retails so they don’t have to keep price matching each other
Absolute mad question, but do you need to download and drivers / firmware / software for this specific SSD to work properly? I have 1 in my system which I think is under-performing.
Also, I have 1 of these (4TB version), that I installed my OS onto and also download all of my games onto etc, I am seeing stuttering in games, should I have 2 drives. 1 for OS, and 1 for Games?
@@jonathanpilmore7140 I'd personally always use a small drive for purely Os and a big one for data. If something happens with Os then there is less chance of data loss. And preferably backups.
Hi PLS SAY, i want to take ryzen 9 7900 cpu which supports maximum 5200Mt/sec, should I choose 5200mhz ram maximum or can i go with 5600 or 6000mhz. Is there any use of taking extra MHz. Pls say this final doubt. Thanks a ton.
i think SSD reviews should change and people should look other specs not just the speed since it doesn't matter anymore, you wouldn't feel any difference between a gen 3 and gen 4 if we're talking about general use or gaming, all these benchmarks for the best scores are just worthless, for me the most important specs are TBW, dram and the memory module technology, these specs are all hidden in marketing, they just push the speed which is so misleading, but also the price and what size you get for that price, that's more of a choice according to what is it that you need it for, personally i got the lexar NM800 pro for the OS, which is so similar to the sn850x and 990 pro but with a better TBW and a cheaper price, also no one was talking about this drive for some reason!!?? and i got the Crucial P3 plus as a secondary drive, also a very cheap ssd that does what i need for a secondary drive to do
@@SupraSav i don't understand what do you mean, which nvme? where did you hear this? i've done a lot of research, i'm pretty sure it would've popped up somewhere if it was commun or even a thing, both those drives have great reviews from users in every website that sells them
Hi,I have a question i just purchase wd sn850x, and i have inserted this nvme in pcie gen 4 slot in the motherboard, my motherboard is gigabyte auros pro B550M, on cristal diskmark software i am getting 7300 read 6300 write speed, but when i actully coping any file in this nvme i am getting 530 to 550mbps why?
can you do the same sort of review for some of the AliExpress vendors? I recently bought the Fanxiang 2tb and as far am I'm aware, seems very good in the PS5 and decent speed
If you really want to test disks you should be using something a lot more granular like fio. It would also be nice to see an enterprise drive for comparison, none of the workstations I've built for really data intensive work have used M.2 for anything but OS drive, at the least we'd use Intel D7-P5510 drives, there is no comparison for latency and iops and TBW under sustained workloads. Not to discount M.2 for the typical creator system, I own WD, Seagate and Solidigm M.2's that I picked up at various times when they were on sale and for my PC needs they have been fine.
If I needed the VRAM, certainly I'd just go for the A6000, performance of the 4090 is very good. You may know you can do more tasks or heavier ones with more VRAM.
@@rallyscoot maybe yep, but im surprised as when look at the WD Black, they did a WD Black 850 and then later on brought out a 850X, thought they would of done the same 950 and then 950X, bit like Corsair brought out a 700 then a Pro 700 and then a Pro 700 SE all Gen 5 SSD’s
The very high-end speedy NVM-e 4.0 4x are very limited. Most of these drives performance as average.. Which isnt great. I dont hope this will happen every new pci-e generation drive. I really miss those SATA ssd days, where almost every sata drive performance like the max what sata 600 could do.. So there was actually more choice to pick from. PCi-e 3.0 x4 wasnt a great generation too. Nowdays harder or hard to find when you still have a motherboard with pci-e 3.0 x4 lanes on that board.
The problem is manufacturers have to 'cheat' with faster NVME consumer drives. They are fine so long as you don't totally fill cache but once you do performance drops a lot and sustained workloads are also not as good as enterprise NVME. Gen 3-4 were/are great if you work with enterprise drives though.
After your Reyiew some Weeks ago i buy a Sabrent Rocket 1 and 4 TB. And also 64 GB Sabrent RAM because of maybe a Good/better compatibility when i built a new system at my new minisforum UM790 Pro. Now after this Review i get the Feeling that i made a complete wrong decision.
It becomes worth it when it's sub $100.00 per TB - which it is. It's as low as $86.00 on Amazon right now. I made every mistake with these M.2 at first on my Corsair Asus Rog Strix X570 Hero IIIV Wifi These SN850x will punish you for so much as overheat or an unsafe shut down. The trick is to keep them at 35c to 40c idle and no hotter than 50c to 60c under load.
It is a pity that radiators cannot be removed from top-end drives. In most cases, they are worse than radiators for $10. And until the warranty ends, you will have to endure high temperatures or put a fan next to it 😢
@@deadselect - Today I install NewHail brand M.2 Coolers on both of my M.2 SN850x NVMe SSDs The fans won't matter because they have 3 heat pipes and fins large enough to work in my large volume TT900 chassis with full complement of 2000RPM Noctua and TT fans. I've got a good performing set of M.2 at the moment. They've logged about 15 unsafe shutdowns. Yet no overheats logged. That was because of some PrimoCache 4.3 testing. Everything is ok now after proper cooling. They're spitting out 2250+ read and 33000+ write using PrimoCache 4.3
The Lexar NM790 1TB is cheaper than WD 850X 1TB at the lace where I come from, also the Lexar is faster, refer to table above. You pick viewers. End of comment.
@@Games-Ah46 My friend has been using this SSD on a gaming computer for almost 2 years now. If you use it on a PC, make sure you have a good 3.3V mains voltage. I recommend purchasing the version without a heatsink.
@@donnydarko7624 jm jm, thanks bro, I am looking for a portable workstation and I would mainly like to work fluently with Premiere and After Effects. That the PC does not make noise, and can work unplugged for at least 5 hours. They still need to launch the ProArt performance tests, we will have to wait
have a wd black 1tb 850x for the os drive and a 1tb cardea z440 for the secondary. I have had them for over a year now but good to see that all my time reviewing parts online back then wasn't completely wrong lol
Have been waiting g for this review.
Thank you my friend.
I've used the WD Black drives a few times but lately I've moved to the Crucial T500 NVMe drives for my creator PCs. Great video, thanks Lauri.
Any reason in particular for moving to T500? I am confused b/w both the drives.
SShhhh! Don't share this video too far and wide or my discount source in the US(walmart) will have supplies drying up. This is by far the best performing nvme I can get off the store shelf in my area for under $100 per TB.
At the same price for 2TB, would you recommend as a laptop main drive this sn850x or the Samsung 990 EVO? I know the Samsung doesn't have DRAM but it is well positioned on your charts.
SN850x is better for gaming performance. Depends on your use case. Techtesters did a good video too. I recommend checking that one.
@@JamieRHi, pls say, Is this SSD for content creators or for video editing as the name on the product is about game drive.
could you plz review crucial t500 with updated firmware?
There are actually 2 different versions of the SN850X. They are WDBB9G0020BNC-WRSN and WDS200T2X0E. I have no idea which version to buy or avoid. There is very little information on the internet regarding the difference.
Can someone please help? I see both of these listed on Amazon and the WRSN version is usually a little less expensive.
Read online that they’re the exact same besides the “wdbb9g0020bnc-wrsn” one is a best buy model number exclusive while the other is all other online retails so they don’t have to keep price matching each other
Sn850x is the best gen4 gaming NVMe but the firecuda 530 is good too if the price is better
KC3000 / Fury Renegade top for price, imho
Are Gen 5 affordable already?
No, you can get a 4tb gen 4 with 7000/6000mb/s for less than a 2 tb gen 5. like fifty dollars less.
Absolute mad question, but do you need to download and drivers / firmware / software for this specific SSD to work properly?
I have 1 in my system which I think is under-performing.
Also, I have 1 of these (4TB version), that I installed my OS onto and also download all of my games onto etc, I am seeing stuttering in games, should I have 2 drives. 1 for OS, and 1 for Games?
WD has firmware updates you want to update. You use the software they have. It'll give you lots of good info in one interface.
@@jonathanpilmore7140 I'd personally always use a small drive for purely Os and a big one for data. If something happens with Os then there is less chance of data loss. And preferably backups.
Still using KC3000 4 TB and 2 TB version of it and happy so far.
How long u been using kc3000 ?
Hi PLS SAY, i want to take ryzen 9 7900 cpu which supports maximum 5200Mt/sec, should I choose 5200mhz ram maximum or can i go with 5600 or 6000mhz. Is there any use of taking extra MHz. Pls say this final doubt. Thanks a ton.
For running games?
i think SSD reviews should change and people should look other specs not just the speed since it doesn't matter anymore, you wouldn't feel any difference between a gen 3 and gen 4 if we're talking about general use or gaming, all these benchmarks for the best scores are just worthless, for me the most important specs are TBW, dram and the memory module technology, these specs are all hidden in marketing, they just push the speed which is so misleading, but also the price and what size you get for that price, that's more of a choice according to what is it that you need it for, personally i got the lexar NM800 pro for the OS, which is so similar to the sn850x and 990 pro but with a better TBW and a cheaper price, also no one was talking about this drive for some reason!!?? and i got the Crucial P3 plus as a secondary drive, also a very cheap ssd that does what i need for a secondary drive to do
If I'm not mistaken that NVME has a controller that is notorious for bricking the drive.
@@SupraSav i don't understand what do you mean, which nvme? where did you hear this? i've done a lot of research, i'm pretty sure it would've popped up somewhere if it was commun or even a thing, both those drives have great reviews from users in every website that sells them
Just bought this from Amazon, free shipping to Malaysia. Still cheaper option compare to adata 980 legend, crucial t500
Great review! Hope to see the Crucial T500 in your mix at some point. Curious to see how it compares with the other Gen 4 drives.
Hi tech notice, is this ssd 850x useful for editing aslo or only is it for gaming needs.
Yes, very good for editing!
@@theTechNotice are u sure sir, this SSD for content creators too. Thanks fr reply 😃
For what its worth, its good. Other comparable m.2 ssds are more higher in price
Hi,I have a question i just purchase wd sn850x, and i have inserted this nvme in pcie gen 4 slot in the motherboard, my motherboard is gigabyte auros pro B550M, on cristal diskmark software i am getting 7300 read 6300 write speed, but when i actully coping any file in this nvme i am getting 530 to 550mbps why?
Yes I have PC Mark 10 but I don't see any drive test results after running the benchmark.. where are they?
On the expensive version/license.
why there is no MSI spatium M480 pro???
can you do the same sort of review for some of the AliExpress vendors? I recently bought the Fanxiang 2tb and as far am I'm aware, seems very good in the PS5 and decent speed
If you really want to test disks you should be using something a lot more granular like fio. It would also be nice to see an enterprise drive for comparison, none of the workstations I've built for really data intensive work have used M.2 for anything but OS drive, at the least we'd use Intel D7-P5510 drives, there is no comparison for latency and iops and TBW under sustained workloads.
Not to discount M.2 for the typical creator system, I own WD, Seagate and Solidigm M.2's that I picked up at various times when they were on sale and for my PC needs they have been fine.
do you need intel arc control on igpu uhd770 paired with nvidia graphics card?
i love my crucial T705 ITS BEAST!!!
Any chance to review the Fikwot FN970?
A6000 gpu have 48 gb vram
In what case the 4090 24gb will bottleneck so that buying 48gb card is reasonable ?
If I needed the VRAM, certainly I'd just go for the A6000, performance of the 4090 is very good. You may know you can do more tasks or heavier ones with more VRAM.
Really good NVMe, but i very surprised that WD Black dont have a Gen 5 SSD out considering all their competitors have one out there
maybe they are working on it.
@@rallyscoot maybe yep, but im surprised as when look at the WD Black, they did a WD Black 850 and then later on brought out a 850X, thought they would of done the same 950 and then 950X, bit like Corsair brought out a 700 then a Pro 700 and then a Pro 700 SE all Gen 5 SSD’s
Are you gonna test Ryzen 9000 series?
sure am! :)
@@theTechNotice cool I'll be waiting.
thank you.
The very high-end speedy NVM-e 4.0 4x are very limited. Most of these drives performance as average.. Which isnt great. I dont hope this will happen every new pci-e generation drive.
I really miss those SATA ssd days, where almost every sata drive performance like the max what sata 600 could do.. So there was actually more choice to pick from.
PCi-e 3.0 x4 wasnt a great generation too. Nowdays harder or hard to find when you still have a motherboard with pci-e 3.0 x4 lanes on that board.
The problem is manufacturers have to 'cheat' with faster NVME consumer drives. They are fine so long as you don't totally fill cache but once you do performance drops a lot and sustained workloads are also not as good as enterprise NVME. Gen 3-4 were/are great if you work with enterprise drives though.
After your Reyiew some Weeks ago i buy a Sabrent Rocket 1 and 4 TB.
And also 64 GB Sabrent RAM because of maybe a Good/better compatibility
when i built a new system at my new minisforum UM790 Pro.
Now after this Review i get the Feeling that i made a complete wrong decision.
2TB is single sided; I have a few ....
Good to know!
The Seagate 530s are better than those WDs with a better TBW as well ...
Except they are prone to sudden death syndrome.
After having 3 Seagate hard drives failing and 0 WD drives i would never get any Seagate products.
I got the kingston 1TB reengage
Too bad the sn850 and sn850x have problems being recognized on x670 chipset especially. My msi x670e does not like these drives at all.
It becomes worth it when it's sub $100.00 per TB - which it is.
It's as low as $86.00 on Amazon right now.
I made every mistake with these M.2 at first on my Corsair Asus Rog Strix X570 Hero IIIV Wifi
These SN850x will punish you for so much as overheat or an unsafe shut down. The trick is to keep them at 35c to 40c idle and no hotter than 50c to 60c under load.
It is a pity that radiators cannot be removed from top-end drives. In most cases, they are worse than radiators for $10. And until the warranty ends, you will have to endure high temperatures or put a fan next to it 😢
@@deadselect - Today I install NewHail brand M.2 Coolers on both of my M.2 SN850x NVMe SSDs
The fans won't matter because they have 3 heat pipes and fins large enough to work in my large volume TT900 chassis with full complement of 2000RPM Noctua and TT fans.
I've got a good performing set of M.2 at the moment. They've logged about 15 unsafe shutdowns. Yet no overheats logged.
That was because of some PrimoCache 4.3 testing. Everything is ok now after proper cooling. They're spitting out 2250+ read and 33000+ write using PrimoCache 4.3
@@ZeekMX Hm... Would you like to try ZFS?
309 now, so roughly 77 bucks a terabyte 👌
White backgrounds look so bad.
Got 3, 2tb. One for game, one for blender
Recently got the sk Hynix p41 2tb and it’s nice
Hi, pls say Is this SSD for content creators or for video editing as the name on the product is about game drive.
The Lexar NM790 1TB is cheaper than WD 850X 1TB at the lace where I come from, also the Lexar is faster, refer to table above. You pick viewers. End of comment.
except you are completely wrong
@@toseltreps1101 why, I did my research?
I do know the NM790 is DRAM-less which can't handle heavy writing but for everyday use will do just fine
Me with my samsung 990 pro🗿
How is it so far?
Have you used it for your Ps5
and does it cause any heat?
Would you recommend it?
@@Games-Ah46
My friend has been using this SSD on a gaming computer for almost 2 years now. If you use it on a PC, make sure you have a good 3.3V mains voltage. I recommend purchasing the version without a heatsink.
Comparing SSDs by sequential write is completely idiotic.
I would like to see a performance comparison between the MacBook PRO m3 Pro 14' 18gb vs Asus ProArt px13
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I feel like the macbook would be better for davinci, and adobe, but everything else the asus would probably win.
@@donnydarko7624 jm jm, thanks bro, I am looking for a portable workstation and I would mainly like to work fluently with Premiere and After Effects. That the PC does not make noise, and can work unplugged for at least 5 hours.
They still need to launch the ProArt performance tests, we will have to wait