When it comes to storage, the latest NVMe storage is the popular choice among gaming enthusiasts for its fast performance and capability to adapt to the most demanding games and applications.
With growing demand for rich content, PCs must have the capability to run intensive applications and enable the 4K/Ultra HD graphics and video content experiences. To move this immense amount of data quickly and seamlessly, Western Digital developed a new breed of SSDs to help remove the traditional storage bottleneck. This M.2 drive features a new NVMe architecture and controller, which optimally integrates with Western Digital 3D NAND. Western Digital’s new vertically integrated SSD platform was engineered from the ground up, specifically architected to help maximize performance for NVMe SSDs, with advanced power management, durability, and endurance for the growing range of applications benefiting from NVMe technology.
If your PC is NVMe compatible, then you can experience exceptional sequential read (up to 3,400 MB/s[1] for 1TB and 500GB model) and write performance (up to 2,8001MB/s* for 1TB model) combined with up to 1TB capacities. The new drive is ideal for enhancing user experiences in gaming environments that benefit from acceleration of intensive fast data.
Furthermore, the drives feature up to 500,000 random-read IOPs (for 1TB model) to deliver extreme throughput, which is ideal for multi-threaded applications and data-intensive multitasking environments.
“Today’s gaming applications require increasing capability from their PCs, and this will only continue to advance. With our new architecture and controller, the Western Digital WD Black SSD integrates our 3D NAND technology with the NVMe interface to enable new levels of performance. Whether it’s a new gaming rig or a video-editing workstation, our innovative NVMe drives will power many existing and future environments that enable data to thrive,” said, Mark Grace, senior vice president, Devices Business Unit, Western Digital.
NVMe SSDs are now growing in popularity over the past 2 years, now that it’s more affordable today, we highly encourage you to prioritize SSD storage in any new PC. Price starts at 250GB (PHP4900), 500GB (PHP8500) and 1TB (PHP9100).
While the gap between the 500GB and 1TB is a bit dumbfounding, we think it’s just a strategy to jump to the 1TB option. Nevertheless, we guarantee that your PC experience both gaming or even normal won’t be the same using this kind of SSDs.
