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Western Digital has announced its first PCIe 4.0 M.2 NVMe SSDs, the WD Black SN850s, and theyll offer fast read / write speeds of up to 7,000MB/s and 5,300MB/s that should help reduce load times on your PC and in games.
Those speeds are a notable increase from the SN750s 3,100MB/s and 1,600MB/s read / write speeds, and on par (with a slightly faster write speed) with Samsungs recently announced PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs.
Because theyre standard M.2 NVMe SSDs, the SN850s should work in most gaming PCs, as long as you have a compatible motherboard. Theoretically, they could also work as storage expansions for the PlayStation 5 but Sony hasnt actually said what drives will be certified as compatible with its next-generation console just yet. (The Xbox Series X / S, on the other hand, have proprietary expandable storage.)
Western Digitals new SSDs will come in 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB capacities and should be available to purchase