Review WD Black SN7100 SSD Review: The power efficiency king, with caveats

[Admin]

The WD Black SN7100 is the successor to the popular SN770 in the budget SSD market segment. It’s power efficient and generally competent, but it's otherwise unimpressive compared to the rest of the PCIe 4.0 market.

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[usertests]

Typo: 1,2000K

No 4TB option at launch

Off-topic: Will we see intermediate capacities like 12 TB take off instead of going straight from 8 to 16?

 

[Notton]

WD is still making new SSDs? I thought they split off their SSDs into Sandisk?

I guess it's good they are still making new products, but the SN770 was plenty fast and efficient for laptops.

 

[JarredWaltonGPU]

Typo: 1,2000K

Fixed, thanks!

Off-topic: Will we see intermediate capacities like 12 TB take off instead of going straight from 8 to 16?

We really ought to, as the doubling of capacities starts to break down beyond a certain level. I don't know if there's any special reason consumer SSDs have traditionally stuck to powers of two, but it seems like there shouldn't be a serious technical limitation. Sort of like how GPUs are still doing it but now we have 24Gb (3GB) GDDR7 chips...

WD is still making new SSDs? I thought they split off their SSDs into Sandisk?

I guess it's good they are still making new products, but the SN770 was plenty fast and efficient for laptops.

Yeah, the SanDisk / WD thing is a bit weird. I guess the WD Black branding is stronger, so we're likely to still see new WD branded SSDs. I'm not sure that's 100% correct, but obviously the SN7100 got WD branding.

 

[HideOut]

It's a little odd. They're spending this division off to SanDisk and this is basically out of date already. I mean it's Gen 4 and doesn't go any higher than 2 TB. I mean that was decent 3 to 4 years ago maybe.

Someone here posted about the 24 GB video cards so we should see intermediate capacities of ssds like 12 gigs but that's two different things. 24 GB memory capacities on video cards have to do with the memory bus with. 128-bit with and 256 have the even numbers like 8 or 16 or 32. If itt has a 356-bit bus. It can have the 11/14/36 etc. there are new types of memory that are 3 gig per chip instead of two coming. And that may allow us hopefully to get what you're asking for. I know that video cards are going to start to see it possibly soon

 

[SyCoREAPER]

All relevant. Temperatures play a big part in choosing a drive based on the application.

I'd take the SK Hynix Platinum P41 at 0.16 watts higher slightly lower performance and virtually or at least comparatively cooler temps to similar drives I tested.

 

[Notton]

I mean it's Gen 4 and doesn't go any higher than 2 TB. I mean that was decent 3 to 4 years ago maybe.

Gen4 is still relevant, especially if it's power efficient, runs cool, and cost effective.
Most people aren't going to notice the difference between Gen4 vs. Gen5, even in games.

I'm sure they'll release a 4TB later on, as they did that with the SN5000.

 

[Frozoken]

It's a little odd. They're spending this division off to SanDisk and this is basically out of date already. I mean it's Gen 4 and doesn't go any higher than 2 TB. I mean that was decent 3 to 4 years ago maybe.

Someone here posted about the 24 GB video cards so we should see intermediate capacities of ssds like 12 gigs but that's two different things. 24 GB memory capacities on video cards have to do with the memory bus with. 128-bit with and 256 have the even numbers like 8 or 16 or 32. If itt has a 356-bit bus. It can have the 11/14/36 etc. there are new types of memory that are 3 gig per chip instead of two coming. And that may allow us hopefully to get what you're asking for. I know that video cards are going to start to see it possibly soon

Lol basically out of date?? Have you seen its random read latency? That matters 100x more than being pcie gen 5 direct storage has just proven even further that sequential speeds will never matter more than random read speeds in the remotely near future. It causes more problems than it solves in 90% of games with it

 

[Mindstab Thrull]

Off-topic: Will we see intermediate capacities like 12 TB take off instead of going straight from 8 to 16?

I will simply point out that for hard disk drives, capacities of 3, 6, and 12TB exist, and RAM is now coming in 24 and 48GB sticks. So I think it's very likely that 12 and 24TB capacities will come out.

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