Western Digital goes for sheer speed with new WD Black NVMe SSD

Western Digital has a new SSD on the block, and information technology's quite the speedster. The visitor today took the wraps off of its new WD Black NVMe SSD, which offers up incredibly fast speeds at relatively affordable prices.

According to Western Digital, the Black NVMe SSD can reach sequential read speeds of up to 3,400 MB/s and write performance of up to 2,800 MB/s. You'll merely achieve those top speeds on the 500GB (read) and 1TB (read and write) options, but that's all the same exceptionally fast. The drive is also available in 250GB option, which can reach up to three,000 MB/s read and up to 1,600 MB/southward write speeds. Here'south the total breakup:

1TB: Up to 3,400 MB/s Read, Up to 2,800 MB/due south Write
500GB: Up to 3,400 MB/s Read, Up to 2,500 MB/south Write
250GB: Up to iii,000 MB/s Read, Up to ane,600 MB/s Write

Western Digital says that it took advantage of a new NVMe architecture and controller to drive performance upwardly to levels intended primarily for the gaming crowd and those looking to eke out the best performance from their video editing rigs.

"Today'south gaming applications require increasing capability from their PCs, and this will only continue to advance. With our new architecture and controller, the Western Digital Blackness SSD integrates our 3D NAND engineering science with the NVMe interface to enable new levels of operation. Whether it'south 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 organization Unit of measurement, Western Digital.

All three variants of the WD Black NVMe SSD are upwardly for order now, starting at $119.99 for 250GB, $229.99 for 500GB, and $449.99 for 1TB. The drives are expected to exist available by "late April."

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