News WD Black SN850X PCIe 4.0 PS5 SSD Hits Retail: 4TB for $820

[Admin]

Western Digital's latest WD Black SN850X PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs are finally available.

WD Black SN850X PCIe 4.0 PS5 SSD Hits Retail: 4TB for $820 : Read more

 

[kalakaur]

This drive on paper seems like a real nothing burger. Same endurance, possibly same controller, we don't know what flash it uses, and there are approximately zero details about "Game Mode 2.0".

 

[spongiemaster]

$820? I'm sure these will be flying off the shelves costing 60-100%+ more than the PS5 it's getting installed into. Even the $700 MSRP is ridiculous.

 

[toooooot]

I have a 1000 ideas how to spend 800 dollars. Each one better than this ssd.
The speed difference compared to a basic ssd would be very small.

 

[jackt]

I noticed 2 bad trends: when performances increase the power increase (overclock?), and the prices stopped to lower (around 1 year ago?), i mean, we are close to pcie5 and they are not lowering !

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Wonder how many people said "I'm going to be smart and buy a console for less than the price of a PC GPU!", only to find out how much the required "optional" extra storage is...