Western Digital India has officially launched a new SSD range in the country, with the WD Black SN750 being the main product, built for gamers and professionals. Having capacities from 250GB to 2TB, the SN750 offers a read speed of up to 3,470MB/s.
The WD Black SN750 runs with the NVMe standard instead of SATA, making it much faster comparatively. For gamers, how this matters is that the performance of installation, loading, and playing are all made faster with the NVMe SSDs.
The company also has introduced the WD Blue SN500 with the sequential read of 1700 and sequential write of 1400 MB/s. The WD Black SSDs come with the WD BLACK SSD Dashboard with the ability to optimize performance by enabling the gaming mode feature. This disables the low power mode function on the SSD, which keeps your drive firing on all cylinders during intense gaming sessions.
Following are the different SSDs that are now available in India.
WD Black SN750 NVMe SSD (options with and without heatsink)
- Read speeds of up to 3470 MB/s
- Write speeds of up to 3000 MB/s
- Models with 500GB, 1TB, 2TB
- M.2 NVMe SSD
- Priced from Rs. 25000
2TB Model with heatsink: WDS200T3XHC
2TB Model without heatsink: WDS200T3X0C
1TB Model with heatsink: WDS100T3XHC
1TB Model without heatsink: WDS100T3X0C
500GB Model with heatsink: WDS500G3XHC
WD Blue SN500 NVMe SSD
- Read speeds of up to 1700 MB/s
- Write speeds of up to 1450 MB/s
- Models with 250GB, 500GB
- M.2 NVMe SSD
- Priced from Rs. 22000
WD Blue SN500 NVMe SSD
- Read speeds of up to 1700 MB/s
- Write speeds of up to 1450 MB/s
- Models with 250GB, 500GB
- M.2 NVMe SSD
- Priced from Rs. 8000
WD Blue 3D NAND M.2 SATA SSD
- Read speeds of up to 560 MB/s
- Write speeds of up to 530 MB/s
- Models with 250GB, 500GB, 1TB, 2TB
- M.2 SATA SSD
- Priced from Rs. 9500
WD Blue 3D NAND 2.5″ SATA SSD
- Read speeds of up to 560 MB/s
- Write speeds of up to 530 MB/s
- Models with 250GB, 500GB, 1TB, 2TB, 4TB
- 2.5″ SATA SSD
- Priced from Rs. 9800
Speaking on the announcement, Khalid Wani, Director– Channel Sales India, Western Digital, said, “We have witnessed a gradual shift towards SSDs among consumers with a rising demand for high-end computing systems. Our SSD product portfolio is spread across categories, and caters to every consumer segment, whether it is the high-end gamer or even the first time PC buyer. The WD Black SN750 NVMe SSD is built to deliver unrivaled performance with an architecture designed for gaming and other high-performance activities. We hope the gaming community and high-performance PC enthusiasts across the country, take this opportunity to optimize their PCs into performance beasts, and enjoy a computing performance which is at par to none.”
Additionally, the SSD features up to 515,000 random-read and 560,000 random-write IOPS (for 1TB model) for extreme throughput, allowing the SSD to manage multi-threaded applications and data-intensive environments. This eventually enables higher responsiveness when accessing multiple files in various locations to load new levels or games efficiently while saving in-game progress during gameplay.
Speaking of Western Digital’s focus on expanding the SSD market, Jaganathan Chelliah – Director, India Marketing, Western Digital said, “There is a healthy growth in high performance PCs fueled by increasing interest in gaming. Western Digital WD Black and WD Blue SSDs based on the latest NVMe technology offer top level performance to gamers and creative professionals. SSDs give a performance boost even on every day computing needs. WD Blue SSDs delivers high performance with efficient powerconsumption. It’s a perfect solution for creative professionals and content creators.
