The WD-Black SN850P is just an SN850X with official PlayStation 5 licensing. They come with a heatsink for cooling, due to the confines of the PS5 console's storage bay. This helps reduce the chance of SSD thermal throttling under load, giving you a much better gaming experience. The SN850P is a PCIe Gen 4 SSD with fantastic sequential speeds of up to 7,300 MB/s reads and 6,600 MB/s.
Woot is offering deals and discounts on the three capacities of the SN850P: the 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB sizes, with the 1TB drive receiving the largest price cut. This drive works perfectly fine on a PC, as with the SN850X, as long as there is enough space in the M.2 drive bay to accommodate the heatsink's girth.
The SN850P is a speedy PCIe 4.0 SSD for PCs, laptops, and the PlayStation 5. The drive boasts a sequential performance that peaks at 7,300 MB/s reads and 6,300 MB/s writes.
The 2TB SN850P also boasts fast sequential read/write speeds and is very slightly faster than the 1TB model on write speed. The 2TB drive peaks at 7,300 MB/s reads and 6,600 MB/s writes.
The 4TB SN850P is identical in performance to the 2TB model. This drive also comes with a built-in heatsink to aid in cooling. The PlayStation 5 drive boasts a sequential 7,300 MB/s read and 6,600 MB/s write.
As I briefly mentioned above, the WD Black SN850P is the same drive as the SN850X. Therefore, you can check out our review of the WD Black SN850X for more information on this fantastic PCIe Gen 4 drive. In our testing, we found the SSD to be one of the top-performing drives in this category.
(Image credit: Tom's Hardware) (Image credit: Tom's Hardware) (Image credit: Tom's Hardware) You might be waiting until next week for Amazon Prime Day to arrive, or sales from the other big retailer to start, but I don't think you're going to see the drives dip lower than this. Memory and storage prices are only holding or going up in price at the moment, and we aren't going to see a change in this pattern for some time.
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