Western Digital Black 3D NVMe M.2 SSD for PC Gaming Systems
$120 (250GB), $230 (500GB), and $450 (1TB), with sequential read up to 3,400MB/s read for 1TB and 500GB model, 2,800MB/s write for 1TB model
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on April 11, 2018 at 2:10 pmPC gaming is increasingly immersive, with richer and more intense visual content, and gamers are faced with making technology choices to maximize their experience.
To push performance, lower power consumption and extended durability for PC gaming systems, Western Digital Corporation (WDC) introduced a the Black 3D NVMe SSD featuring the company’s own SSD architecture and controller.
The drive accelerates data for PC applications to enable users to quickly, access, engage and capture high-resolution video, audio and gaming content.
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, the company developed a newf SSDs to help remove the traditional storage bottleneck. This M.2 drive features a new NVMe architecture and controller, which optimally integrates with the firm’s 3D NAND. The company’s vertically integrated SSD platform was engineered and architected to help maximize performance for NVMe SSDs, with power management, durability and endurance for the growing range of applications benefiting from NVMe technology.
“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 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, SVP, devices business unit, Western Digital.
Black 3D NVMe SSD – Built to boost gaming systems
With sequential read (up to 3,400MB/s for 1TB and 500GB model) and write performance (up to 2,8001MB/s (1) for 1TB model) combined with up to 1TB capacities, this drive is for enhancing user experiences in gaming environments that benefit from acceleration of intensive fast data. Additionally, the drives feature up to 500,000 random-read IO/s (for 1TB model) to deliver extreme throughput, which is for multi-threaded applications and data-intensive multitasking environments. The drive offers a five-year limited warranty with up to 600TBW endurance (for 1TB model).
The 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). These drives will be available by late April 2018 in select company’s retailers, e-tailers, resellers, system integrators and distributors.
(1) 1MB/s = one million bytes per second. Performance will vary depending on hardware and software components and configurations.
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