WD Black SN850X 8TB

All of the terabytes all of the time.

Zak Storey

PRICE $1,338 WEB www.westerndigital.com We’ve done it, people; we’ve hit maximum SSD. 8TB of gloriously fast NAND flash baked into a single M.2 stick. Let’s be clear: from a purely practical perspective, it’s hard to justify a drive like this. On the one hand, yes, you can store a lot of data on it; on the other, if you did hypothetically fill up 70 percent of it, if that drive failed without a backup, you’d be in a world of hurt. It’s a lot of capacity to house on a single stick, that’s for sure. WD’s not pulling its punches. The SN850X initially launched at the tail end of 2022. However, its maximum capacity was limited to a paltry 4TB. This modern SN850X, however, is a different beast. WD’s managed…

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