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WD_BLACK’s 7,300MB/s SN850X PS5 SSD with heatsink now starts at $100, 4TB variant at $290

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We just spotted a deal at Amazon that drops the WD_BLACK 4TB SN850X SSD with heatsink down to $289.98 shipped. This particular unit has fetched as much as $349 in recent months, and it’s now seeing a $60 markdown to land at one of the lowest prices we have tracked for it. This drive is now within $20 of its all-time low price, and you’ll also find its other variants down at some of their best prices to date with the 1TB model at $99.99 shipped. Head below for more details.

The WD_BLACK SN850X is a high-performance SSD designed specifically for gamers and power users. It’s available in 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, and 8TB capacities, all of which boast incredibly fast transfer speeds of up to 7,300MB/s. This unit comes with a pre-installed heatsink and it’s fairly easy to install it in both PlayStation 5 consoles and modern PCs with compatible slots. It offers features like predictive loading, overhead balancing, and adaptive thermal management to deliver a reliable experience, and it even has an RGB light which can be controlled via the WD_BLACK Dashboard when installed in a PC. You can check out our hands-on review of the non-heatsink model to learn more about it in detail.

If you don’t want to spend much on a 4TB drive, then the WD Blue SN5000 SSD is $200 right now, down from its usual price of $300. It doesn’t come with a pre-installed heatsink, but it’s still very capable with transfer speeds of up to 5,500MB/s.

WD_BLACK 4TB SN850X NVMe SSD features:

  • Get the ultimate gaming edge over your competition with insane speeds up to 7,300 MB/s(1) for top-level performance and radically short load times.date transfer rate:7300.0 megabytes_per_second.Specific uses: Gaming
  • A range of capacities from 1TB to 4TB(2) means you get to keep more of today’s games that can take up 200GB(2) or more of storage.
  • The WD_BLACK Dashboard monitors your drive’s health, controls your RGB style and can automatically detect games to turn on Game Mode 2.0 (Windows only).
  • Predictive Loading, Overhead Balancing, and Adaptive Thermal Management features come to the SN850X to juice up your gaming performance.(3)
  • Supports future games developed for Microsoft’s DirectStorage technology for faster load times.

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