Low-cost PCIe 4.0 SSDs in capacities up to 4 TB.
PCs have evolved over time and we have seen all the changes in hardware, software and peripherals. If you’ve been using computers for years, you probably remember those IDE cables that took up much more space than today’s cables and were used to connect hard drives or CD/DVD readers. Today, not only do we have much smaller SATA cables, but hard drives have become less of a priority and SSDs have taken over most people’s interest.
Western Digital now launched SSD SN5000which have PCIe 4.0 and offer up to 4 TB storage for affordable price.
About 10 years ago, SSDs started appearing in the consumer market, meaning we could buy them in stores and install them in our PCs. The problem is that in those early years, SSDs were very expensive to buy, and they had little capacity. Purchase A 64 GB or 128 GB SSD can cost us more than 100 euros. easily, a figure that is very far from what we have now. SSD drives have become much cheaper, to the point that buying a 1 TB SSD seemed more profitable than an HDD of the same capacity.
Western Digital releases new PCIe 4.0 SN5000 SSDs in capacities up to 4TB
The price of an SSD will be determined by the features it offers, and these in turn are determined by the type of memory and controller used. There are SLC, MLC, TLC, and QLC memory SSDs, with the latter typically offering the most capacity but less durability, so these SSDs typically come out cheaper and are designed for use as storage devices rather than data storage. speed. . However, a few months ago we saw Western Digital launch SN5000S Solid State Drive with QLC Memory This was 16.5% faster than SN740 with TLC memory.
Given this progress, there is a lot of interest in an SSD with almost the same name that was just released, the SN5000, which also uses QLC memory, offering up to 4TB of memory. This is the successor to the SN580, essentially using the same NAND BiCS 5 TLCbut only in
Models from 500 GB to 2 TBsince in the 4 TB version it uses NAND BiCS 6 QLC.
The 1TB model costs $80, and the 4TB model costs $280.
This is a PCIe 4.0 SSD that delivers sequential read speeds 5150 MB/s, a noticeable increase over the 4150 MB/s of the SN580. Sequential write speed has been increased by 750 MB/s, achieving
4900 MB/s. This SSD delivers up to 730,000 random read IOPS and 770,000 random write IOPS. View 1 TB which uses TLC memory, have
600 TBWand the 4TB model with QLC memory doubles it with 1200 TBV.
The WD SN5000 SSD is compatible with Encryption TGC Pyrite 2.01 for greater security and offers us a 5-year warranty if we want to buy it. Now it’s time to talk about price, since at the moment the model 1 TB costs $80
which is not bad at all, i.e. 2 TB costs $140, 4 TB costs $280..