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Appeared on: Thursday, April 5, 2018
Western Digital Releases New Gaming SSD with NVMe Performance

Western Digital today introduced a high-performance Western Digital Black 3D NVMe SSD featuring the company's own SSD architecture and controller.

The drive supports a sequential read of up to 3,400 MB/s for 1TB and 500GB model) and a write performance of up to 2,800 MB/s for 1TB model. Additionally, the drives feature up to 500,000 random-read IOPs (for 1TB model) to deliver extreme throughput.

The drive offers a five-year limited warranty with up to 600TBW endurance (for 1TB model).

The Western Digital Black 3D NVMe SSD is available in the U.S. in capacities of 250GB ($119.99 USD), 500GB ($229.99 USD) and 1TB ($449.99 USD). The new drives will be available by late April 2018.

Specifications

Capacity: 250GB, 500GB, 1TB

Interface: PCIe Gen3 8 Gb/s, up to 4 lanes

Form Factor: M.2 2280 

Sequential Read/Write

1TB
Up to 3,400 MB/s Read
Up to 2,800 MB/s Write

500GB
Up to 3,400 MB/s Read
Up to 2,500 MB/s Write

250GB
Up to 3,000 MB/s Read
Up to 1,600 MB/s Write 

Random Read/Write

1TB
Up to 500,000 IOPS Read
Up to 400,000 IOPS Write

500GB
Up to 410,000 IOPS Read
Up to 330,000 IOPS Write

250GB
Up to 220,000 IOPS Read
Up to 170,000 IOPS Write



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