Review Sandisk WD Black SN8100 2TB SSD Review: The fastest overall consumer SSD ever made

[Admin]

The Sandisk WD Black SN8100 is the dream drive everybody wants. It was worth the wait, now it just has to be worth the price.

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[cyrusfox]

Chart topping performance, perhaps the premium price is warranted, still 2x more than I would want to pay for storage (even fastest on the market NAND which this appears to be). I love WD, They have done well with the sandisk line, they make the best small form factor drives (22x30). And it looks like they have tamed gen 5 and are showing a performance and latency lead nearly everywhere. But on the real world task, they are all overkill, so I don't see myself paying extra per TB just for the milli-seconds of gains on display.

Times like these make me wish Optane could have survived a couple years longer to truly push the boundaries on each new connection standard. Although I am bet the power consumption of such a device would rival that of a sff GPU.

 

[josmat]

Typos: on 1st page there are some places where it says Samsung instead of Sandisk.

 

[dwd999]

Hoping for a future 3-way shootout between WD SN8100, Samsung 9100 Pro, and newly announced Crucial T710. Hopefully each with their own heatsinks. Please! (Would be nice to buy on Labor Days sale).

 

[Loadedaxe]

Why are you using a Hynix P41 in this .... ?
The P51 is the Gen 5 model from SK Hynix, not the 41, that's Gen 4

 

[Albert.Thomas]

I wish this had included some comparisons with Intel Optane drives, but nonetheless - this product looks GOOD!

 

[Makaveli]

This drive looks great and will most likely be a replacement for my current OS drive WD SN850X 2TB. No rush though will wait to see what prices of this drive will be like in the fall.

 

[SimonNVC]

Would the Samsung 9100 Pro not have made a better choice for comparison than the Gen 4 Samsung drives included in the results?

 

[mac_angel]

Your title says 2TB, but your links are for the 1TB models.

As for Sandisk's history, I give it 6 months, tops, before they start swapping out the various chips on the m.2 drive.

 

[Makaveli]

As for Sandisk's history, I give it 6 months, tops, before they start swapping out the various chips on the m.2 drive.

This is my only concern with SD. That is something western digital never did.

So I may have to grab one in the first 3 months.

 

[DavidLejdar]

That is what I kept a M.2 slot free for. But, here in Europe, unemployed for a few weeks now, as U.S. corporate profits of more than $3,500 per U.S. inhabitant and per month (after tax), apparently isn't enough... And now I have less money to spend with U.S. companies - as that somehow is what the U.S. wants? Not sure I understood it all, including the part, why inclusion of civil war veterans and their widows, is now considered a bad thing? But anyhow, maybe some time in the future.

 

[MisterZ]

Why does your review list this as the "Sandisk WD" when it doesn't mention Sandisk at all on the product label or box?

 

[sjkpublic]

Gotta love competition between this company and Samsung. Still concerned about TBW. The faster the storage is, the faster it can wipe itself out.

 

[ak47jar3d]

I wonder if games can even make proper use of the level of speed from the drive. I am guessing not.

 

[JayGau]

Why does your review list this as the "Sandisk WD" when it doesn't mention Sandisk at all on the product label or box?

Scroll down to the slideshow on the first page of the review and go to the last slide. Sandisk is written in capital letters on the back of the drive.

 

[m3city]

Typos: on 1st page there are some places where it says Samsung instead of Sandisk.

Because this review is a copy paste. Nothing really wrong with that. But what i feel wrong is:
- first sentence that we've been waiting. No, there are plenty of fast ssd. This one is Just faster, till next week when another one comes up.
- parameter comparison table, where first 9 rows of 14 present exactly the same data for all ssd sizes. Those should be written above with table showing just differences.

 

[gkotse]

Few people know that Sandisk WD is a collaboration with Seagate, using Kioxia and Samsung parts, designed by Porche/Lacie and built in Transcend factories in Greenland USA.

 

[urbanman2004]

The Sandisk WD Black SN8100 is the dream drive everybody wants. It was worth the wait, now it just has to be worth the price.

Sandisk WD Black SN8100 2TB SSD Review: The fastest overall consumer SSD ever made : Read more

No need to be a WD shill, we get the point, lol j/k. I actually purchased the WD SN750 PCIe 3.0 SSD twice (500GB & 1TB variants) since I was really satisfied w/ its performance before upgrading to a 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD of a different brand (Sabrent Rocket).

 

[JeffreyP55]

Why does your review list this as the "Sandisk WD" when it doesn't mention Sandisk at all on the product label or box?

To be fair, WD owns Sandisk. However, it is still a typo.

 

[USAFRet]

Gotta love competition between this company and Samsung. Still concerned about TBW. The faster the storage is, the faster it can wipe itself out.

The 1TB has a TBW warranty of 600TB.
The 2TB, 1200. And so on.

Of ALL your existing SSDs, what is the max TBW you've ever seen? In what time period?

 

[Maxxify]

To be fair, WD owns Sandisk. However, it is still a typo.

It's confusing because it's Sandisk and the model is WD_BLACK SN8100 (worse even, since it was originally SanDisk before lower-casing for marketing). So it should be Sandisk WD_BLACK SN8100 but the capitals are annoying (yeah, they kept those) and normally these drives under WD would just be Black, as in Black SN8100, so Sandisk WD Black SN8100 is a valid interpretation. I've just kept it as WD Black SN8100 on my SSD resources because I don't want to deal with these shenanigans. (Sandisk was spun off from WD this year btw)

 

[ottonis]

I guess this SSD might be the pinnacle storage for large, extensive sample libraries such as deep sampled orchestral instruments or huge pianos.
It's impressive to see how the SSDs are evolving in speed and overall performance while actually ot going overboard with power consumption and thermal problems.
Let's hope that in 1-2 years the steep prices are going to plummet a bit.

 

[mkx808xx]

The Sandisk WD Black SN8100 is the dream drive everybody wants. It was worth the wait, now it just has to be worth the price.

Sandisk WD Black SN8100 2TB SSD Review: The fastest overall consumer SSD ever made : Read more

Temperature chart is missing from "Power Consumption and Temperature" section.

 

[itsrunny]

No Samsung 9100 in the comparison charts?

 

[Loadedaxe]

To be fair, WD owns Sandisk. However, it is still a typo.

WD does not own Sandisk any longer that 2015 acquisition was dropped end of January of this year.

SanDisk is now a separate public company, distinct from Western Digital. The only Sandisk disks that carry a WD branding are those that were in development before Feb 2025.

So no, while developed and designed in part by WD, these drives and future versions are manufactured by Sandisk.