Western Digital is expanding its lineup of SSDs this week with the WD Blue SN5000 Series, a new lineup of PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSDs aimed at budget users, available in capacities ranging from 500 GB to 4 TB, with the latter capable of delivering read speeds of up to 5,500 MB/s. All of these SSDs leverage WD’s BiCS 5 TLC NAND flash except for the 4 TB version, which features the company’s BiCS 6 QLC, according to their complete specifications, which can be found on an official data sheet.
Product links and capacities:
- WD Blue SN5000 NVMe SSD (500 GB)
- WD Blue SN5000 NVMe SSD (1 TB)
- WD Blue SN5000 NVMe SSD (2 TB)
- WD Blue SN5000 NVMe SSD (4 TB)
Some of their key specs, including NAND flash differences:
A promo video:
WD on its new SSDs:
The WD Blue SN5000 NVMe SSD is next-generation storage designed for creators and professionals. Fuel your AI-enabled applications and accelerate your workflow with NVMe, PCIe Gen 4, and Western Digital nCache 4.0 technology. Plus, create without limits with up to 4TB capacity. No matter your creative process, the WD Blue SN5000 NVMe SSD makes every step easier – and shortens the time between ideating and finalizing your creative vision.
Discussion (4 replies)
Join Discussion →We'll see what pricing looks like but I am for affordable, name brand SSDs! I think I dropped over $300 on the 4tb black I put in the PS5. If I could see a 4tb blue for $200 or less, I would retire my ancient 5tb spinner/game drive
?that's a whole lot of games
Western Digital has been good to me over the years, so I normally look their way for drives when I can. So it's nice to see this budget lineup.
A nice 100TB SSD to offload games to... Man if I could do tiered storage and promote games I want to play up to my NVME and games I am taking a break from to the SSD. That would be REALLY nice. I know there are some hardware solutions that are capable of hosting your steam library on your local network. That might be nice if I had like a 10 gig pipe locally.