If you’re looking for a high‑capacity NVMe SSD aimed at sustained high speed performance in demanding workloads, the WD_BLACK SN7100 4 TB is definitely worth a closer look as it is currently on sale for its lowest ever price (purchase link down below).
The SN7100 uses 3D TLC NAND and an in‑house controller and promises excellent performance under heavy, mixed read/write activity. Speaking of which, sequential read speeds are listed at up to 7,150 MB/s, with sequential writes up to 6,900 MB/s, according to the official datasheet. Random performance is rated at up to 1,200 K IOPS for reads and 1,100 K IOPS for writes (measured at queue depth 32, 16 threads).
Endurance is specified at 2,400 TBW (terabytes written), which should be sufficient for multi‑year use in write‑intensive environments. This is expected from TLC-based drives like this one.
While the SN7100 does not have dedicated DRAM cache, which helps in faster metadata caching and access and thus improves random access times, the drive supports the NVMe 1.4 specification and thus it should be efficient in using the system DRAM as cache via the HMB (host memory buffer technology). On the topic of features, the SN7100 includes the usual S.M.A.R.T. monitoring, TRIM, and secure erase support. Operating temperature is rated from 0 °C to 70 °C, with built‑in thermal throttling to protect against overheating.
Get it at the link below:
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WD_BLACK 4TB SN7100 NVMe Internal Gaming SSD Solid State Drive - Gen4 PCIe, M.2 2280, Up to 7,000 MB/s - WDS400T4X0E [New Version]: $209.99 (Sold and Shipped by Amazon US)
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