If you’re still looking for more storage after the recent Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, you’re in luck – especially if you’re looking for one of the fastest Gen 4 SSDs around. Whether you’re expanding the storage available on your PlayStation 5 console or increasing the storage capacity in your laptop or gaming PC, the WD Black SN850X is a great choice and one of our favorite drives we’ve had the chance to review. A few deals popped up just before the holidays, and this one is one of the most interesting.
this WD Black SN850X reduced to $259 on Amazon. While it’s not an all-time low, or even close to the $249 lowest price seen during the Black Friday sales, it’s pretty close, and certainly beats the $304 average asking price.
we reviewed WD black SN850X We were impressed with the drive’s performance in our benchmark tests, giving it a 4 out of 5 stars and awarding it an Editors’ Choice badge. Performance results put the WD Black SN850X over the top and at the top of our survey. Best SSD for PS5 list.
WD Black SN850X uses 112-layer BiCS5 TLC memory and WD’s proprietary controller. This 2280 M.2 SSD uses PCIe Gen 4×4 and is capable of impressive sequential read/write speeds of up to 7300/6600 MBps, easily meeting the PlayStation 5 spec list.