Western Digital WD_BLACK NVMe SSD 2018 250GB, M.2 2280 / M-Key / PCIe 3.0 x4

Mit der WD Black NVMe gehört Western Digital zu den wenigen Unternehmen, bei denen die komplette Entwicklung der SSD und teilweise auch die Fertigung der essentiellen SSD-Bestandteile im eigenen Haus erfolgt und somit eine optimale Abstimmung der einzelnen Komponenten erfolgen kann. Den DRAM muss WD allerdings noch einkaufen, während er bei Samsung auch noch aus eigener Entwicklung und Produktion kommt.

The WD Black 2018 NVMe SSD is the company's flagship offering for demanding gamers and enthusiasts. Looking at our averaged real-life performance results, it is the fastest SSD we ever reviewed. The differences to other high-end NVMe drives are small, though—most of these drives are within a few percent of each other. Compared to 2.5 SATA drives, the WD Black is about 15% faster because of its much higher read/write speeds. While theoretical speeds of NVMe drives are generally much higher than their SATA counterparts, real-life differences are small because even with normal SATA drives, disk activity is no longer the main reason for application slowdowns and the bottlenecks shift to other tasks.

The WD Black is available in three capacities, 250GB, 500GB and the model we have for review here, the 1TB. With 5 year warranties and extremely attractive speeds coupled to affordable pricing, the Western Digital Black 1TB NVMe wins our OC3D Performance Award.