The WD Black SN850X is one of the most popular SSDs on the market. It leads the Gen 4.0 category alongside the very popular Samsung 990 Pro. The SN7100, on the other hand, is a mid-range DRAM-less SSD targeting more of the budget-segment audience. It is suitable for light workloads, while the SN850X is targeted […]
Just search for the Best Gen 4.0 SSD anywhere, and you’ll see the WD Black SN7100 at the top. However, you can also see the SN770 nearby, as both are top competitors in the mid-range NVMe category. In terms of performance, the SN7100 outperforms the SN770, although the prices are similar across all storage capacities.
2025 is an amazing year with many new SSDs released in the Gen 5.0 category. We saw many amazing releases like Crucial T705, T710, Kingston Fury Renegade G5, Micron 4600, Samsung 9100, and now the latest Sandisk WD Black SN8100. We have done some SSD comparisons for the Gen 5.0 category, and today we are
Recently, I have been reading many forum posts, articles, and watching YouTube videos about the fake SSDs. They are packaged in the same product boxes and designed to imitate the real ones. I am not talking about those unnamed portable drives that can be detected easily at first glance. This is happening with popular brands
There is already a revolution in the computer storage standards. The ecosystem is now blazing fast, durable, and energy efficient. But every great revolution is backed by a cache. Storage; the more it’s improving every year, the more we hear about certain things going wrong. The most common negatives we hear are that they wear
The most recent series of NVMe storage, which offers extreme read/write speed, on paper reachable up to 14000 MB/s, is the Gen 5 SSDs. It is a significant jump from Gen 4.0, which offers 7000 MB/s, and Gen 3 ~ 3500 MB/s. If we compare them theoretically, the new generation looks like a game-changer. But
