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Posted 5 June 2023
4TB - WD_BLACK AN1500 PCIe Gen3 technology NVMe SSD Add-in-Card Up to 6500/4100MB/s R/W - £238.99 delivered @ WD Shop
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10% extra off with abandoned cart method.
Meaning, you leave it in the cart for a day and you will be sent the 10% code works on sale items.
5-Year Limited Warranty
Plug, Play, Destroy. With a WD_BLACK NVME PCIE SSD
Experience lightning fast gameplay with this bootable, plug and play add-in-card that reaches extreme velocity with minimum effort. Includes customizable RGB lighting and heatsink.
Reach Extreme Velocity
Get in the game faster with the WD_BLACK AN1500 NVMe SSD Add-in-Card. Internally powered by two SSDs using PCIe Gen3 technology, reach up to 6500MB/s read speed and up to 4100MB/s write speed to minimize load times.2
More Capacity for Your Games
Keep numerous games and your rig running smooth with the WD_BLACK AN1500 NVMe PCIE SSD Add-in-Card, allowing you to save up to 4TB1 of data.
Plug and Outplay
Reaching extreme velocity has never been easier. The bootable WD_BLACK AN1500 NVMe SSD Add-In-Card simply connects into your PCIe expansion slot, requiring no external power or cables. Primed with an enterprise grade RAID controller, this plug and play add-in-card can run your entire operating system while you game, giving you solid reliability and effortless performance that holds nothing back.
Light up Your Station with RGB
Enhance your gaming station with fully customizable RGB lighting controlled through the WD_BLACK Dashboard (Windows® only), designed to match your style with various colors and thirteen different LED pattern effects to choose from. Or, seamlessly integrate with your existing ASUS Aura Sync on Armoury Crate, GIGABYTE RGB Fusion 2.0, MSI Mystic Light, or Razer Chroma™ RGB ecosystem.
Throttle the Enemy. Not Your Rig.
Help keep your rig running at top speeds with the WD_BLACK AN1500 NVMe SSD Add-In-Card, featuring a fanless and silent heatsink to sustain performance and help keep you from throttling down.
Optimized with the WD_BLACK Dashboard
Take total control with the downloadable WD_BLACK Dashboard, allowing you to monitor the health of your drive and optimize performance using gaming mode to ensure you’re firing on all cylinders during intense gaming sessions.
Meaning, you leave it in the cart for a day and you will be sent the 10% code works on sale items.
5-Year Limited Warranty
Plug, Play, Destroy. With a WD_BLACK NVME PCIE SSD
Experience lightning fast gameplay with this bootable, plug and play add-in-card that reaches extreme velocity with minimum effort. Includes customizable RGB lighting and heatsink.
Reach Extreme Velocity
Get in the game faster with the WD_BLACK AN1500 NVMe SSD Add-in-Card. Internally powered by two SSDs using PCIe Gen3 technology, reach up to 6500MB/s read speed and up to 4100MB/s write speed to minimize load times.2
More Capacity for Your Games
Keep numerous games and your rig running smooth with the WD_BLACK AN1500 NVMe PCIE SSD Add-in-Card, allowing you to save up to 4TB1 of data.
Plug and Outplay
Reaching extreme velocity has never been easier. The bootable WD_BLACK AN1500 NVMe SSD Add-In-Card simply connects into your PCIe expansion slot, requiring no external power or cables. Primed with an enterprise grade RAID controller, this plug and play add-in-card can run your entire operating system while you game, giving you solid reliability and effortless performance that holds nothing back.
Light up Your Station with RGB
Enhance your gaming station with fully customizable RGB lighting controlled through the WD_BLACK Dashboard (Windows® only), designed to match your style with various colors and thirteen different LED pattern effects to choose from. Or, seamlessly integrate with your existing ASUS Aura Sync on Armoury Crate, GIGABYTE RGB Fusion 2.0, MSI Mystic Light, or Razer Chroma™ RGB ecosystem.
Throttle the Enemy. Not Your Rig.
Help keep your rig running at top speeds with the WD_BLACK AN1500 NVMe SSD Add-In-Card, featuring a fanless and silent heatsink to sustain performance and help keep you from throttling down.
Optimized with the WD_BLACK Dashboard
Take total control with the downloadable WD_BLACK Dashboard, allowing you to monitor the health of your drive and optimize performance using gaming mode to ensure you’re firing on all cylinders during intense gaming sessions.
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Edited by Brutes, 5 June 2023
36 Comments
sorted byYou see, high end flash is NOT for gaming or boot drives. It is for continuous I/O on high performance servers, or pro/semi-pro video editing where massive files need to be constantly moved between TWO or more flash drives. In the business world, time is money, and the 'life' of a storage device matters little.
Anyway, the truth is that most ordinary motherboards used by peeps here are badly designed for high end flash applications. Too few PCIe lanes, meaning clashes between everything in your PC, since EVERYTHING uses this horrible Intel designed bus. And Windows exasperates the problem- not being designed to use multiple storage devices at the same time reliably (you ever wonder why Linux exists?).
The move from PCIe3 to 4 to 5 fixes almost nothing, offering a crude boost in braindead continuous read or write, and nothing else. For gaming use, a MB with two NVMe slots, one for the boot drive, one to run games from, is pretty much as good as it gets. Any fast NVMe is fine for the gaming slot, the boot drive should be chosen with a strong mixed I/O and high transaction rate.
Did you actually write that comment specifically for this product, or do you keep a file of nonsense to copy and paste in where half-way fitting, like some sort of a weird customer service bot that's gone massively wrong?
I would suggest avoiding.
then
"I would suggest avoiding"
I'm assuming the first paragraph is not linked to the second...?
Turns out I was right - the 4TB has 2x2TB SN750, which have 1200TBW each. Obviously WD won't state a figure, but back of a napkin would suggest a total of 2400TBW for the 4TB AN1500.
Kinda hard to resist at that price...