Just picked this drive up, installed it in a new build with: i9-13900k slightly OC, 32GB DDR5-6000 and a 3090 OC. I didn't think I would see much of a difference between my old off brand M.2 and my new SN850x but I'm here to say it was well worth the $199 I picked it up for. Pcie gen 5 is on the horizon so there are some great deals out there for the top drives. 100% would recommend.
What about reliability? I need a highly reliable SSD for my next rig. I'm torn between this and Firecuda 530 but I'm leaning towards WD because I've bought a bunch of external WD drives during these years and I've only had some minor problems. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
The 4TB version is sold only without a heatsink for a reason: the chips on top are very different in height, so you have to use relatively thick thermal pads to make the heatsink sit properly flat on top. To make it worse: on the bottom, chips are on one half only, which makes it even harder to fit double-sided heatsinks easily, because you can’t use even pressure to make the top side a snug fit.
i have the exact one yes you use thicker thermal pads but all you have to do is cover the chips only with the thermal pads its been working great for me. i use the BEQUITE BZ002 MC1 M.2 SSD
@@bosbarz5772I have been using 850x in my PS5 with the Sabrent Heatsink(rose gold/black plate). At first boot-up, I wasn’t sure it wasnt allowing me to transfer my games from my PS5’s internal SSD then all of a sudden 10-15min later I was able to move everything and fast. Haven’t had any issues.
What a difference 2 or 3 months make. In the video the WD Black 1TB SN850X w/o heatsink is selling at $159.99. I just picked up, in a Black Friday special, the 2TB SN850X for $154.99.
I use this drive on my production desktop. The difference between this drive and the stock SK Hynix that was in it, is night and day. Very pleased with it.
It is a legit drive for gaming. Replaced the drive in my Beelink Ser5 and huge speed difference. I play on a 50 inch Vizio 4k TV that has AMD Freesync.
I have always wondered why is the 4TB the same speed as the 2TB, but the 2TB is faster than the 1TB? The 4TB has more DRAM package on the back so you would think it would also increase speed.
Re: specs on the flash modules - I've been researching drives for a new build for multiple hours now. I'm in the US, where KIOXIA doesn't sell their consumer grade stuff, but after looking into it, I'm like 90% sure that this is, essentially, almost a rebrand of the KIOXIA exceria pro. The specs are almost identical, and WD's flash is made by Toshiba's (kioxia's) chip fab. In the rest of the civilized world, you can just buy the kioxia drive if you want the speed, but I think in the US, for ... marketing reasons (?), you are expected to settle on the WD Black.
Yes believe you are right. It has been impossible for example to get Plextor's M10P here in the states with BiCS 4. And that drive is highly desirable (TweakTown called it the best, eclipsed only by the SK Hynix P41 recently). You would think with a new Rev. 2 controller and BiCS 5 (possibly BiCS 6??) this drive would beat those.
Pity that WDC dropped backward compatibility (nvme 3, 2 and 1) clearly included in the nvme 4 specification. Now I can only spec Crucial for those currently with older versions that want speed and capacity now with an upgrade path.
Good review thank you Heat likely killed mine..had a heat sink. Installed as a drive to house simple data for VST libraries used in audio software. Installed retail box version on Nov 28, 2022. Dead March 6, 2023. BIOS no longer sees any drive in the allocated M. 2 slot on a Z390 Gigabyte MOBO. Original Intel 2TB M2 and Samsung Ssd SATA from Dec 2019 still there no issues. This is shameful. Some Amazon users rated this drive as 1 star listing failure after failure. In IT for 30 years, this is a first in this short of timeframe. Avoid.
i have ben saving for a pc good gaming pc for the past 6 years now and yea the wd black sn850x 4TB ssd is something i will have as my C drive. whenni first found out about the drive it was a bit too expensive but now the prices has dropped to acceptable levels which is a relief as my budget is at around 4k$ which means yes i will have a RTX 4k series GPU but also get the benefits of high read and write speeds with that ssd. which is required as not only do i do a lot of modded gaming.. but i also do 3d modeling in blender and coding and such things and yea that ssd together with a RTX 4080 16GB will be a huge upgrade from the 10+ year old setup i currently am working with. not to mention that the new pc will have a much better cpu (a Ryzen 9 7950x 4.5 GHz 81 MB so even better then the one used in the benchmark testing of that ssd) then my current one.. as my current one do not have AVX support.. which has become a big problems when i wanna play games like subnautica BZ and slime rancher 2 as now game devs assume that all computers that ppl are using has that as standard.. but nope.. my current pc do not.. nor do my current motherboard support a newer cpu either due to how old everything is.. so yea i am looking forward to finally getting a new modern gaming pc
I have to agree with this except I would add that these M.2 SN850X operate in a temperature envelope of 0c to 70c or 32F to 158F - At least according to the spec sheet. The M.2 SN850X also records every evil thing you do, Including when you perform an unsafe shutdown. Critical Overheat is punished by lower health numbers. I suggest idle temp of 35c to 45c and not a drop over 120F I prefer the term Pro Gaming Enthusiast. I can still make a make pro gamer run home to mama if it's a battle of 5ms of random difference in ping.
good in debt video, thx.. a bit of a shame that your system isnt powerfull so it can give the true maximum performance .. - that is a thing Id like to see, since I do have a 5950X, with a SN750 1TB + SN850 1TB, - and Iam considering upgrading the SN750 to a SN850X 2TB..
Hello; thank you for your vidéo and thank you for all of them. What you do is very interesting to compare and chooose the ssd we want for your bugdet. And your vidéos about the heat on SSD are very interesting for learning. Have a good week and see you soon.
Still be nice in my PS5. I only just got a 2Tb 850 on prime day, but I'll be looking at the 850X in November. I can offload my 850 to the mrs, mates rates so be both win.
i personally have never found appealing the value of WD's ssds. always 10-15% pricier where i live than samsung/crucial/kingston counterparts. i like the hdds though
Hi! I have a quick question: would this WD Black SN850X with the heatsink fit in my laptop Predator Helios 300 (2022 version) or should I buy the model without heatsink? Your reviews are always so helpful, thanks! :)
@NASCopares May you or anyone else could please tell me if you have seen SN850X 4TB in your hand that, is 4TB single sided or it is double sided SSD? I am seeing conflicting comments, some says it is single sided and some saying it is double sided! Even in official data sheet they have mentioned exactly same thickness of SN850X regardless the capacity, that means according to data sheet 1TB and 4TB has same thickness, my laptop cannot accept double sided NVMe that's why I want to be sure if 4TB is one sided (I know 1 or 2TB are one sided)
Regarding WD Black SN850X vs. Crucial P5 Plus, I'm a little confused regarding the random read speeds. In the 1st random read test, the SN850X is 3 times faster than the P5 Plus. In the 2nd random read test, the SN850X is 3 times slower than the P5 Plus. So which one is more likely to be faster overall?
Feeling quite happy with myself I just negotiated a 2tb version for £200 on ebay only worry is I don't think the warranty will be valid as its brought through ebay eeek
Hey Nas! I just bought this m2 but i am unable to install windows. I installed the harddrive, and using the windows on my SSD it's possible to see it in diskmanagement and as storage in "computer" However, i am unable to see it in my windows installation (USB bootable) I have tried just about everything and i searched google thin without hope, even asked on a forum but no luck.. Please be my saviour
WD Black SN850X over the SN850 we'll only see an improvement in write output, but otherwise it's the same. So whatever is at a better price is worth it. Firmware - WD Black SN850 611100WD - 01.2021 612100WD - 03.2021 613200WD - 07.2021 614300WD - 09.2021 614600WD - 11.2021 614900WD - 02.2022 Firmware - WD Black SN850X 620241WD - 06.2022 620281WD - 08.2022 620311WD - 01.2023 620331WD - 03.2023 - fixed the problem with \Device\RaidPort1 error.
Hi, thanks for the informative videos. Have you checked if the 850x comes with the latest firmware since it impacts performance when using enclosures like orico? I have the 4TB version, I tried to check firmware on pc using dashboard but couldn’t get the software to install properly, blank window, I’ll contact WD for that. I got 2450/2700 with the shipped firmware, on mac mini thunderbolt 3, APFS format. Thanks
hi there! just wanted to double check using the WD Black SN850X 4TB... how do you have it running on your mac-mini? I have a sabrent dual TB3 casing and waiting for my 2x 4tb nvme's but there is not alot of clarity online whether SN850X 4TB works on a mac (thru thunderbolt)
@@jftvrwk I use Orico NVMe SSD Enclosure 40 Gbps, and Orico M.2 NVME SSD, both works with mac mini, currently I use them with Mac Studio M1, slightly faster than the 2018 Mac mini. They run warm, but not hot, which means they work well. Bought both enclosures from amazon. Test speed about 2800 MB/s for Studio and over 2000 on mini.
Very true, the Rocket 4.0, but they were not the first to bring a 7K SSD to the market (that's why I always make the 7K commercial distinction in my videos - like a pedantic dick! I know)
Thank you! Can you please expand on why you don't feel this is a great drive for PS5 application? 4TB currently $450. Every Amazon review is CONSISTENTLY showing PS5 read speeds of just over 6,500 MB/s; highest I've seen registered for PS5 application (i.e., Firecuda PS5 read speeds ranging 5,200 - 6,500 MB/s)
Tbh my view on this drive with PS5 has certainly changed since the original review..the main reason being the price drop! When WD managed to get official approval of their SN850 drive (it was always compatible, but only around summer 2022 did it get an official Sony license), it resulted in the price of it being increased and/or no longer on such good value offers. Whereas, the SN850X (which arrived In the market almost 20% more expensive than the SN850) has seen consistent price drops/offers. When I made this (and a few other Vids) on the SN850X, I said it was less/not suitable than the 850 because you would be paying much more for a similar level of performance. Fast forward to now and the X is cheaper in many places AND now we are starting to see development on the PS5 extended storage support increase 'write' utility. Basically, I now have a different opinion of what I said in the video because WD went wierd on the pricing! Hope that helps bud
I have the 4TB version and can only get 3475 MB/s on CrystalDiskMark. I have a Dell Latitude 5591 laptop with an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8850H CPU @ 2.60GHz, 2592 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s), and 32 GB of RAM. Is something wrong, or is this a reasonable speed?
Stuck it into a PCIe 3.0 with half the max speed, and still faster than high quality fastest PCIe 3.0 drive with similar max speeds. Due to bigger faster DRAM on WD drive, random read writes are faster. Always buy WD, quality and reliability not found in any other. Not Samsung, not Kingston, not Seagate.
@@irwin976monblach get bigger TB, as you fill up, the performance of bigger one will be more useful. There is raw speed, and there is reduced overhead. Go with reduced overhead.
Ive Just got this ssd for christmas and have now bought an orico M.2 ssd enclosure with nvme m.2 ssd compatibility, however im unable to initialise the drive and it only appears in disk manager as one that cant be initialised and it appears in device manager but other than that it doesnt work even though its brand new adn it working on some pc's ive tried but not my own. The conclusion ive come to is either theres something wrong with the drive or my pc having had its operating system upgraded to windows 11 rather than a full clean install and so is having issues detecting it properly, Ive made sure the BIOS is updated and any outstanding updates for my os is installed as windows has a tendancy to disable certain functionality based on if youve updated it or not but low and behold it doesnt work still does anyone know how to fix it?
One thing is that this (850x) has dram cache and the (sn770) does not For gaming purpose it is better to go with dram one, it is also better for the life of an ssd
Looking at the fingers, not even it has hit the magical 7000 finger I am positive cpu and ram and motherboard have influence in final speeds , 🤔 even my gigabyte nvme has better stats than your wd .
WD’s dashboard app is absolute dogshit. Never use it except for updates or maintenance, other than that uninstall it when you don’t need it. It absolutely destroys your pc’s performance. It maxes out your cpu usage no matter your settings or how good your cpu is. I contacted their customer support and they installed the app on their pc and were shocked at how much it destroyed their cpu usage also. They even had another rep that had a way more powerful pc try it too and same thing. They had no idea what to do about it. Such a weird pathetic issue. Even if you turned off the background process settings for it and didn’t have the program open there was still processes it was doing destroying your usage. You had to uninstall it completely to get your perf back. It’s been a year now so I’m hoping they maybe fixed it? Idk the whole thing seemed so negligent, careless, and ignorant.
This drive sucks. Every single game crashes The game mode is so stupid I can't even believe it if game mode is off game stutter if game mode is on games crash Rtx4090 i9 14900ks Rog Maximus Apex motherboard I have a 980 pro Samsung and every time I suffer from crashing problems on the WD black I transferred the game over to the 980 and it works and doesn't crash I'm sending the stupid drive back to Newegg Piece of garbage do not buy Tried tested and true okay maybe I have a faulty drive But my Samsung drive wasn't faulty I'm had it with this stupid WD black 8 50x garbage
