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As a gamer, one of the most important things to consider in any setup is your storage. It holds your vital data, including your precious saved files🥂. You need your drives to be fast, reliable, and robust, without breaking the bank. This is where Sandisk’s and SSDs come in.

Often, when considering how to make games faster and smoother, focus falls on the memory, processor, or graphics card, but storage plays a far greater role in the🤪 performance of your games than you’d think. The majority of devices run everything from the machine these days, meaning all the data you need to play games has to be read and loaded from the drive. NVMe SSDs are the fastest type of drive you can get, helping to avoid a huge bottleneck in your gaming performance.

Sandisk’s DRAM-less PCIe® Gen 4.0 WD_BLACK SN7100 NVMe SSD is designed with performance in mind, especially for laptops and handheld devices, with speeds of up to 7,250 MB/s read an✅d 6,900MB/s 🅺write (1 – 2TB models)ᶦ giving them a 35% performance boost compared to the last generation equivalentᶦᶦ.

The WD_BLACK SN8100 NVMe SSD with PCIe Gen 5.0 technology is even more impressive, boasting breakneck speeds o🅠f up to 14,900 MB/s sequential read speed and 14,000 MB/s sequential write🍎 speed (2TB – 4TB) with an average operating power of 7W or underᶦᶦᶦ.

These drives are built for gaming, no matter what you play. The WD_BLACK SN7100 NVMe SSD is PCIe Gen 4x4 🐎interface, while the WD_BLACK SN8100 NVMe SSD is PCIe Gen 5x4 but both products utilize Sandisk’s latest TLC 3D CBA NAND, making both drives up to 100% more power efficient than previous generationᶦᵛ, respectively, meaning higher performance and less drain on your power supply, or even more crucially, your laptop battery. They also boast a 5-year limited warranty.

They are built to last, and to be future-proof, regardless of if they are used in a new setup, or to upgrade an existing one. Gettin👍g ahead of the game with a fast and efficient SSD means you’ll be ready for next-generation gaming, and the rigoℱrs of AI applications.

If you prefer to play on a desktop, then Sandisk’s WD_BLACK SN7100 NVMe SSD and WD_BLACK SN8100 NVMe SSD are two SSDs which are also perfect for your gaming PC. The technology is engineered with laptops in mind, meaning there’s not a single device which can’t benefit from the fast read and write speeds and the power efficiency. Windows® PC users can also access the WD_BLACK Dashboard, allowing you to monitor your drive’s health an🧸d performance, manage firmware updates, and optimize the drive for gaming.

Game size꧙s continue to grow, which is why the drives come in up to four sizes. For the WD_BLACK𝓡 SN7100 NVMe SSD these are: 500GB, 1TB, 2TB, and 4TBᵛ. The WD_BLACK SN8100 NVMe SSD has 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB options, with 8TB5 coming later this year.

High levels of endurance also help ensure your machine can handle the most intense of tasks, be it games,ღ video editing, data processing or AI workloads, without your SSD becoming a bottleneck for performance. The WD_BLACK SN7100 NVMe SSD 2TB⁵ model has up to 1,200TBW endurance to aid smooth and loss-free streaming and content capture. For hardcore users, the WD_BLACK SN8100 NVMe SSD 4TB⁵ model has an incredible 2,400TBW endurance (4TB model)ᵛᶦ.

📖No matter what your setup, these competitively priced SSDs were built to obliterate load time🌳s, increase game performance, help future-proof your gaming rig, and always have room for those essential updates.

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