Review: WD Black AN1500 NVMe SSD (2TB)

by Tarinder Sandhu on 24 December 2020, 10:01

Tags: WD (NYSE:WDC)

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The key performance characteristic of this model is fast sequential transfers ordinarily outside the technical remit of M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 drives. Having two pre-RAIDed SN730 SSDs does the appropriate trick for large-file transfer potential, as the AN1500 gets in the vicinity of the PCIe 4.0 x4 WD Black SN850.

Having RAID0 active is great for sequentials but worth practically nothing when examining performance of moving lots of small files around. Makes sense, as well, because the focus here is on IOPs.