Introducing the
WD_BLACK™ SN8100
NVMe™ PCIe® Gen 5 SSD 

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Power your game and fuel your creativity with a drive that’s engineered for excellence.  Perfect for high-level gaming, professional content creation, and 3D Rendering.

  • NEXT-GEN performance

Experience PCIe® Gen 5

Load into games faster. This internal SSD drive reaches sequential read speeds up to an astonishing 14,900MB/s1, sequential write speeds up to 14,000MB/s1, and over 2,300,000 IOPS1 of random performance (2TB – 4TB2 models).

  • Advanced Reliability

Designed to Perform

Our latest TLC 3D CBA NAND technology provides our most advanced combination of speed and reliability to help ensure your experience is at top performance,  no matter if you’re gaming or working.

  • Future-Proof Your PC

Twice as Fast as PCIe® Gen 4 — Same Power Consumption3

Level-up your workflow with over 100% more power efficiency than PCIe® Gen 4 at twice the speed3. Thanks to an average operating power of 7W1, you can run your machine at optimal performance.

  • Heatsink available soon

Built for the Bold

The WD_BLACK™ SN8100 NVMe™ SSD with Heatsink featuring the signature WD_BLACK design , and customizable RGB lighting arrives June 2025.

  • Future-Proof Your PC

Room for Revolution

Live-edit your biggest projects and still have room for OS updates, models for AI-powered applications, and your game library, thanks to capacities up to 4TB2.

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CapacityUp to 4TB2Up to 8TB2Up to 4TB2Up to 4TB2
InterfacePCIe® Gen 5x4PCIe® Gen 4x4PCIe® Gen 4x4PCIe® Gen 4x4
Sequential Read14,900MB/s17,300MB/s17,250MB/s15,150MB/s1
Sequential Write14,000MB/s1 (2-4TB)6,300MB/s16,900MB/s14,850MB/s1
Average Power Consumption17W7W--
Use CaseGamingGamingGamingContent Creation

 

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1TB

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2TB

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4TB

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Disclosures
1. 1MB/s = 1 million bytes per second. IOPS = input/output operations per second. Based on internal testing; performance may vary depending upon host device, usage conditions, drive capacity, and other factors.
2. 1GB = 1 billion bytes and 1TB = 1 trillion bytes. Actual user capacity may be less depending on operating environment.
3. Over 100% more power efficient than 2TB WD_BLACK SN850X NVMe™ SSD.

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