News Sandisk's new WD_BLACK SN8100 claims to be the world's fastest NVMe SSD – 14,900MB/s read speeds and up to 8TB in capacity

[Admin]

Sanisk has just unveiled its new Sandisk WD_BLACK SN8100 NVMe with 14,900MB/s read speeds and up to 8TB of capacity.

Sandisk's new WD_BLACK SN8100 claims to be the world's fastest NVMe SSD – 14,900MB/s read speeds and up to 8TB in capacity : Read more

 

[dwd999]

I clicked their Notify Me option because I would prefer the heatsink version when it becomes available. I need it because I bought the Arctic Freezer III Pro cpu cooler which doesn't allow me to use my motherboard's m.2 cooler. Theoretically I can request that Arctic send me the low profile m.2 cooler that they offer for free. Or I could just buy one on Amazon for $6. But I would really prefer WD's own. Hopefully I won't have to wait too long.

 

[JTWrenn]

When will we slow down on the speed and crank up that capacity? 4TB has been the max for too long. We need a two tier system like we used to have with most spinning drives at different speeds.

 

[Aurn]

When will we slow down on the speed and crank up that capacity? 4TB has been the max for too long. We need a two tier system like we used to have with most spinning drives at different speeds.

More endurance per capacity would also be good

 

[thestryker]

When will we slow down on the speed and crank up that capacity? 4TB has been the max for too long. We need a two tier system like we used to have with most spinning drives at different speeds.

Welcome to the world of M.2 this is basically never going to happen at a reasonable cost like it did with 2.5" drives. Increasing capacity generally means using the latest NAND and more packages of it. Double sided drives are also harder to cool so we see limited numbers of them. If client stuck with 2.5" drives we'd have already seen 16TB and 8TB probably wouldn't carry the premium it currently does.

 

[Aurn]

Welcome to the world of M.2 this is basically never going to happen at a reasonable cost like it did with 2.5" drives. Increasing capacity generally means using the latest NAND and more packages of it. Double sided drives are also harder to cool so we see limited numbers of them. If client stuck with 2.5" drives we'd have already seen 16TB and 8TB probably wouldn't carry the premium it currently does.

I don’t know a lot about it, but I wonder if U.2 might come to desktop PCs sometime ? I’ve always dreaded having to replace M.2 drives because you often need to remove the CPU cooler and graphics card, so maybe it would also be more convenient

 

[thestryker]

I don’t know a lot about it, but I wonder if U.2 might come to desktop PCs sometime ? I’ve always dreaded having to replace M.2 drives because you often need to remove the CPU cooler and graphics card, so maybe it would also be more convenient

Never going to happen unfortunately. Some desktop boards had U.2 connectors in the Z170-Z390 era, but as far as I'm aware nothing newer than that. HEDT/Workstation boards have had them (or SlimSAS) since X99 (AMD as well). The only option for U.2 for most client users is going to be adapters in M.2 or PCIe slots.

Of course this isn't necessarily a bad option as used enterprise drives tend to be reliable enough and much cheaper than client drives (downside being idle power consumption).

 

[Jame5]

That's what M.2 to U.2 adapters are for these days. I use one to run my Optane drive.

I have to admit I'm tired of all of the SSD announcements this year being "We are releasing new 8TB PCIe5.0 generation models!!!*" With the asterisk always being "8TB model coming at the end of 2024 or 2025".

Maybe wait for it to be ready before you try and sell it?