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4TB WD Blue SN5000 NVMe Internal SSD

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Various Retailers have 4TB WD Blue SN5000 NVMe Internal SSD on sale for $199.99. Shipping is free.

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Available Retailers:Specs:
  • Maximum Read Speed: Up to 5,500MB/s (4TB)
  • Maximum Write Speed: Up to 5,000MB/s (4TB)

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Various Retailers have 4TB WD Blue SN5000 NVMe Internal SSD on sale for $199.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member Suryasis for finding this deal.

Available Retailers:Specs:
  • Maximum Read Speed: Up to 5,500MB/s (4TB)
  • Maximum Write Speed: Up to 5,000MB/s (4TB)

Editor's Notes

Written by RazorConcepts
  • This matches a previous frontpage deal.
  • About this Product:
    • This is rated 4.8 out of 5 stars based on over 2,000 ratings at Amazon.
  • About this Store:
  • Please see the original post for additional details & give the WIKI and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.

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For us less technical folks, basically it has a comparatively lower "TBW", "total bytes written", the amount of data that can be written before it'll likely fail. It's also theoretically worse performance than "TLC", but it kind of depends what you'll be using it for.

This is a "DRAM-less" SSD, so it uses part of the drive itself as a cache, and when that fills up during writing a lot of files at once or very large files, your performance is going to tank. So instead of those 5000 MB/s speeds you'll end up with something more like 500 MB/s.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/wd-sn5000-4tb-ssd-review

As a basis for comparison, here's a TLC PNY drive:

https://www.tomshardware.com/revi...ssd-review

The TBW is 3000 TBW instead of 1200 for the WD. And performance is a bit better, and it has a DRAM cache. But it also costs $100 more for the same amount of storage.

But for a lot of folks, they'll possibly never hit that TBW or even the performance once the cache is full will be fine. Depends what your budget is and what you'll be using it for! But it's a pretty good price for a lot of SSD storage that we haven't seen in awhile.
4TB model is 3d nand QLC according to wd spec sheet
The MP44 also sits there for only $26 more and still TLC so you can meet in the middle but even the 850x is only $60 more and is a vastly superior drive. For $200 this isn't really slick but more in line to what it should be and even then for QLC it should be much cheaper but prices have been out of wack and might only get worse.

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Amazon same price, just got 2 of them.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product...X0DER&th=1
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And WD:

https://shop.sandisk.com/products...B0E-00CNZ0

I could be wrong, but I think there are discounts from WD for students. I'm not a student.
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Quote from ISKRA87 :
And WD:

https://shop.sandisk.com/products...B0E-00CNZ0 [sandisk.com]

I could be wrong, but I think there are discounts from WD for students. I'm not a student.
Quote from ethanweisinger :
Amazon same price, just got 2 of them.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product...X0DER&th=1 [amazon.com]
Thanks. I have added both the links to the deal as well.
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Quote from ISKRA87 :
And WD:

https://shop.sandisk.com/products...B0E-00CNZ0

I could be wrong, but I think there are discounts from WD for students. I'm not a student.
15% for students, teachers/educators, as well as seniors (55+). Email sign-up 10% off (discount codes won't stack).

https://shop.sandisk.com/promo
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4TB model is 3d nand QLC according to wd spec sheet
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Quote from FancyPlastic329 :
15% for students, teachers/educators, as well as seniors (55+). Email sign-up 10% off (discount codes won't stack).

https://shop.sandisk.com/promo
I don't think any of those codes stack with the existing discounts
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Quote from Yiiiiii :
4TB model is 3d nand QLC according to wd spec sheet
Is that good or bad?
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Is that good or bad?
QLC SSDs are a cost-effective for high-capacity storage, but their lower endurance might make them less suitable for write-intensive applications.
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Quote from IB3431 :
QLC SSDs are a cost-effective for high-capacity storage, but their lower endurance might make them less suitable for write-intensive applications.

For us less technical folks, basically it has a comparatively lower "TBW", "total bytes written", the amount of data that can be written before it'll likely fail. It's also theoretically worse performance than "TLC", but it kind of depends what you'll be using it for.

This is a "DRAM-less" SSD, so it uses part of the drive itself as a cache, and when that fills up during writing a lot of files at once or very large files, your performance is going to tank. So instead of those 5000 MB/s speeds you'll end up with something more like 500 MB/s.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/wd-sn5000-4tb-ssd-review

As a basis for comparison, here's a TLC PNY drive:

https://www.tomshardware.com/revi...ssd-review

The TBW is 3000 TBW instead of 1200 for the WD. And performance is a bit better, and it has a DRAM cache. But it also costs $100 more for the same amount of storage.

But for a lot of folks, they'll possibly never hit that TBW or even the performance once the cache is full will be fine. Depends what your budget is and what you'll be using it for! But it's a pretty good price for a lot of SSD storage that we haven't seen in awhile.
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Quote from UniqueCreator907 :
For us less technical folks, basically it has a comparatively lower "TBW", "total bytes written", the amount of data that can be written before it'll likely fail. It's also theoretically worse performance than "TLC", but it kind of depends what you'll be using it for.

This is a "DRAM-less" SSD, so it uses part of the drive itself as a cache, and when that fills up during writing a lot of files at once or very large files, your performance is going to tank. So instead of those 5000 MB/s speeds you'll end up with something more like 500 MB/s.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/wd-sn5000-4tb-ssd-review

As a basis for comparison, here's a TLC PNY drive:

https://www.tomshardware.com/revi...ssd-review

The TBW is 3000 TBW instead of 1200 for the WD. And performance is a bit better, and it has a DRAM cache. But it also costs $100 more for the same amount of storage.

But for a lot of folks, they'll possibly never hit that TBW or even the performance once the cache is full will be fine. Depends what your budget is and what you'll be using it for! But it's a pretty good price for a lot of SSD storage that we haven't seen in awhile.
The MP44 also sits there for only $26 more and still TLC so you can meet in the middle but even the 850x is only $60 more and is a vastly superior drive. For $200 this isn't really slick but more in line to what it should be and even then for QLC it should be much cheaper but prices have been out of wack and might only get worse.
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I have never had a macbook before, this will work in a macbook right?

and is the model number SN5000 ?
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Quote from UniqueCreator907 :
For us less technical folks, basically it has a comparatively lower "TBW", "total bytes written", the amount of data that can be written before it'll likely fail. It's also theoretically worse performance than "TLC", but it kind of depends what you'll be using it for.

This is a "DRAM-less" SSD, so it uses part of the drive itself as a cache, and when that fills up during writing a lot of files at once or very large files, your performance is going to tank. So instead of those 5000 MB/s speeds you'll end up with something more like 500 MB/s.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/wd-sn5000-4tb-ssd-review

As a basis for comparison, here's a TLC PNY drive:

https://www.tomshardware.com/revi...ssd-review

The TBW is 3000 TBW instead of 1200 for the WD. And performance is a bit better, and it has a DRAM cache. But it also costs $100 more for the same amount of storage.

But for a lot of folks, they'll possibly never hit that TBW or even the performance once the cache is full will be fine. Depends what your budget is and what you'll be using it for! But it's a pretty good price for a lot of SSD storage that we haven't seen in awhile.
is this good for storing and playing video games on a PC?
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Quote from okaythen :
I have never had a macbook before, this will work in a macbook right?

and is the model number SN5000 ?
A new MacBook? No. It will work as external storage for one if you put it in a case.

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Quote from DannyKABOOM :
is this good for storing and playing video games on a PC?
Although not a fast performance gaming nVme, it will still best your average Sata SSD, TBH I have benchmarked different games on SSDs, Raptors and Barracudas on 10K RPM, nVme, etc across different games and sometimes the loading difference is very nominal, occasionally you'll have games that will take longer but that depends on many factors too, including the game engine to load shaders, etc, etc. If you're on a constrained budget it's a good deal and lots of storage so definitely get it.

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