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The WD Black SN750 is a super-fast PCIe 3.0 SSD – and the 1TB model is down to £87 at Amazon UK, a historic low price. That’s a fantastic price for what was once among the fastest NVMe SSDs on the planet, with read speeds up to nearly 3500MB/s… before the advent of faster (and more expensive) PCIe 4.0 drives in the last couple of years.
Still, in terms of value for money, this TLC drive with a DRAM cache is going to be hard to beat – especially as the only real competitors tend to come with QLC NAND or without a DRAM cache, both of which sacrifice performance to hit lower price points!
Let’s take a look at some competitors then. The SN750 costs £86.99 for a 1TB drive, so what else can we get for that kind of money on Amazon? The Crucial P2 is a great budget NVMe drive, but it’s actually more expensive right now at £92.63. We could get the SN550 for £20 less, but this drive offers read speeds of around 2400MB/s – some 1100MB/s slower than the SN750. Based on this alone, I’d say the SN750 is worth the extra money, and that’s before we look at writes – particularly sustained writes – where the SN550 is comparatively weaker.
What about going for a faster PCIe 4.0 drive – how much would we need to spend to get a significantly better drive? Right now, the WD SN850 is the best value option with a cost of around £133, with read speeds of 7000MB/s – so you get more or less a doubling of maximum performance for £46 more, or around 1.5 times the price of the SN750. This could be worthwhile if you’re copying around massive files – think 4K video footage if you’re a YouTuber, for instance – but you’ll see smaller gains in other workloads thanks to the drives’ relatively close random read and write speeds.
So overall then, I think the WD SN750 and SN850 are the best value options for most people – with the SN750 getting the nod for folks on PCIe 3.0 systems, while SN850 being a decent but not essential upgrade for those with motherboards that support PCIe 4.0.
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