WD Black SN7100 2 TB Performance Review - The Best Gen 4 SSD?

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In this review we're checking out the WD Black SN7100 2 TB, which is the company's newest consumer M.2 NVMe PCI-Express 4.0 solid-state drive. As the "Black" name suggests, this is a drive targeted at the high-end crowd, gamers in particular. I'm not sure why they changed the model number to be thousands now instead of hundreds (SN7100 vs SN770), but at the end of the day it doesn't matter—we only care about performance and pricing, too, of course. Under the hood we found a new WD in-house controller, the Polaris 3 A101-000172-A1, a 4-channel design optimized for DRAM-less operation. The NAND flash is Kioxia's brand-new BiCS8 TLC with 218-layers. The WD Black SN7100 is available in capacities of 500 GB ($60), 1 TB ($85) and 2 TB ($140). Endurance for these models is set to 300 TBW, 600 TBW and 1200 TBW, respectively. WD offers a five-year warranty with the SN7100. https://www.techpowerup.com/review/wd-black-sn7100-2-tb/ Klevv Genuine G560 2 TB Corsair MP700 Pro 2 TB Kioxia Exceria Plus G4 2 TB Corsair MP700 Elite 2 TB PNY CS2150 2 TB Samsung 990 Pro 2 TB WD Black SN7100 2 TB Klevv Cras C925 2 TB Corsair MP600 Elite 2 TB Kingston KC3000 2 TB Klevv CRAS C930 2 TB Lexar NM790 2 TB Team Group G50 2 TB Team Group G70 Pro 2 TB Crucial T500 2 TB Team Group GE Pro 2 TB Orico O7000 2 TB Team Group A440 Lite 2 TB Corsair MP600 Mini 2 TB Kingston NV3 2 TB Neo Forza NFP495 2 TB Team Group MP44Q 2 TB Kioxia Exceria Plus G3 2 TB Corsair MP400 2 TB XPG Atom 50 2 TB Kioxia Exceria Plus G2 2 TB