Still, in terms of value for money, this TLC drive with a DRAM cache is going to be hard to beat - especially as the only real competitors tend to come with QLC NAND or without a DRAM cache, both of which sacrifice performance to hit lower price points!
Get the WD Black SN750 1TB for £86.99 (RRP £190.99)
What about going for a faster PCIe 4.0 drive - how much would we need to spend to get a significantly better drive? Right now, the WD SN850 is the best value option with a cost of around £133, with read speeds of 7000MB/s - so you get more or less a doubling of maximum performance for £46 more, or around 1.5 times the price of the SN750. This could be worthwhile if you’re copying around massive files - think 4K video footage if you’re a YouTuber, for instance - but you’ll see smaller gains in other workloads thanks to the drives’ relatively close random read and write speeds. So overall then, I think the WD SN750 and SN850 are the best value options for most people - with the SN750 getting the nod for folks on PCIe 3.0 systems, while SN850 being a decent but not essential upgrade for those with motherboards that support PCIe 4.0. I hope this deals post was helpful! Thanks for checking it out and making it all the way to the end, if indeed you did, and generally thanks for reading and supporting RPS!
