If you’re still on the hunt 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. Whether it’s for expanding the available storage on your PlayStation 5 console or boosting the storage capacity in your laptop or gaming PC, the WD Black SN850X is a great choice and one of our favorite drives that we’ve had the chance to review. In the run-up to the holidays, a few deals are popping up, and this is one of the more interesting.
TheWD Black SN850X is back down to $259at Amazon. It’s not an all-time low or even as low as when it was featured at $249 in the Black Friday sales, but this is really close and certainly beats the average $304 asking price.
We reviewed theWD Black SN850Xand were very impressed with the performance of the drive in our benchmark testing, rating it at 4 out of 5 stars and awarding it an Editor’s Choice badge. The performance results placed the WD Black SN850X near the top of the charts and earned it a top spot on ourBest SSDs for the PS5list.
WD Black SN850X (4TB) SSD:now $259 at Amazon(was $699)The SN850X is a speedy PCIe 4.0 SSD for PCs, laptops, and the PlayStation 5. The drive boasts a sequential performance that peaks at 7,300 MB/s reads and 6,600 MB/s writes. See our review of theWD Black SN850Xfor more information.
The WD Black SN850X features 112-layer BiCS5 TLC memory with a WD proprietary controller. This 2280 M.2 SSD is PCIe Gen 4x4 and is able to reach impressively high sequential read/write speeds of up to 7300/6600 MBps, easily meeting the PlayStation 5 specifications checklist.
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Stewart Bendle is a deals and coupon writer at Tom’s Hardware. A firm believer in “Bang for the buck” Stewart likes to research the best prices and coupon codes for hardware and build PCs that have a great price for performance ratio.
