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Published: 2021-02-12, Author: Ford , review by: gamesradar.com
Easy to install, One of, if not the fastest SSDs available, WD dashboard software is great
Good grief it's expensive
Hands down one of the best SSDs on the market right now it's got everything from simple use to serious speeds - and a serious price tag...
Faster than a single M.2 slot, Easy to install, Colourful LEDs, Doesn't need M.2 slots
On the expensive side, No drive encryption, RAID 0 config can't be changed
What is excellent about the AN1500 is that it enables older systems to have NVMe performance even if they have no M.2 slots. I recently retired an Intel X79 series system that was still remarkably powerful but lacked modern features like M.2 slots, and th...
Excellent sequential speeds, Great build quality and RGB, Five-year warranty from big name
Expensive, Reduces GPU-to-system bandwidth, High power consumption
Thinking outside the regular M.2 box, WD introduces an add-in-card SSD which breaks through the sequential bandwidth shackles normally imposed by PCIe 3.0 storage support on most motherboards available today.Sequential read speed of over 6GB/s is achi...
Needs 8 PCIe lanes for full performance, Couldn’t match official 4K figures under testing, Power consumption,
WD's new Black AN1500 drive has been designed to cater for the needs of gamers/enthusiasts who are wanting a drive with PCIe Gen 4 levels of performance but are using a motherboard with only PCIe 3.0 architecture. There are three capacities of AN1500 curr...
Not quite as fast as native Gen4 SSDs, Takes up 8 PCIe lanes for full performance, Power hog, Runs hot, but not too hot, Expensive
WD's Black AN1500 delivers high bandwidth and speed that rival's Gen4 competitors, thanks to an enterprise-grade RAID controller, and comes with a price tag to match...
Published: 2020-10-08, Author: Jon , review by: pcworld.co.nz
PerformanceThe AN1500 performs as advertised, at least on synthetic benchmarks. Real-life 48GB transfers generally didn't stack up to PCIe 4.0, though our PCIe 3.0 testbed (see below) is now quite a few generations older than our PCIe 4.0 testbed. Because...
Published: 2021-03-05, Author: Jonathan , review by: aphnetworks.com
Is the Western Digital WD_BLACK AN1500 2TB the greatest PCIe 3.0-based NVMe SSD ever made? As with almost every product we look at here at APH Networks, the answer is not so simple. What I can tell you is by linear read and write performance, the WD_BLACK...
Abstract: Games have a huge data of assets, usually running in couple of gigabytes, that need to be loaded into the RAM for easy access time and again. A fast drive will ensure that you spend minimal time waiting between levels, lost in loading screens.We are wel...
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, Rating: 5 out of 5, The WD_Black AN1500 is simply one of the best SSDs in the market you can get right now, and certainly the finest SSDs we've ever used. It offers the fastest transfer speeds, without the need of an M.2 connector, which old mother
We won't deny that we just can't hate this card. Firstly, it is a unique item since it's been a while since we really saw any SDD in the Add-In Card form factor. That might really appeal to a specific crowd who are solely looking for a PCIe SSD. Secondly...
Abstract: Western Digital is one of the leading brands when it comes to modern-day storage solutions. The company makes various types of storage solutions, including pen drives, internal and external storage devices. One of the well-known gaming-centric storage pro...
