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WD Blue SN5000 PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2 SSD 1TB $75 + Delivery ($0 VIC, NSW, SA C&C) @ Centre Com

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WD Blue SN5000 PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2 SSD 1TB $75 + Delivery ($0 VIC, NSW, SA C&C) @ Centre Com
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L8bitsperbyte on 14/06/2025 - 12:59 centrecom.com.au (2002 clicks)
Last edited 21/06/2025 - 07:37 by 1 other user

For those who missed the earlier 1TB deal. The WD SN5000 1TB for $6 more. The SN5000 is basically a minor refresh of the SN580 and uses the same TLC NAND chips (but probably with a different controller). On the spec sheet for the 1TB model, there's a bump in seq read/write performance, and a drop bump in random read/write performance. But I think for most users, the real world difference is negligible between them.

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Controller WD In-House: 4 Channel, DRAMless
NAND Flash WD / Kioxia BiCS 5 112L 3D TLC NAND
DRAM Cache None, HMB Supported
Sequential Read 5,150 MB/s
Sequential Write 4,900 MB/s
Random Read 730,000 IOPS
Random Write 770,000 IOPS
Write Endurance 600 TBW
Warranty 5 Years

Data Sheet, Review

Don't use the review of the SN5000 4TB model, because that capacity uses completely different memory chips (QLC NAND).

Thanks to Meteor Anarcom for telling me post this as a deal.

Update 21/07/2025: Deal is active again.

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Comments

  • Fergy1987 on 14/06/2025 - 13:15
    +1

    Would this be suitable for a boot drive in a new build? My current boot drive is a 500gb 970 evo plus, should i just move that over?

    • heef on 14/06/2025 - 13:32
      +3

      If you have another NVMe slot, keep your Samsung as your boot drive as it is fast enough already. Most people won't even saturate PCIe Gen3.

      TLC is better than QLC in terms of performance and durability, so a nice bonus.
      As for not having DRAM, this is not a big deal on PC as it can use your system RAM (not all the time, mainly for large writes such as installing a game) through HMB support. This would matter if it was going in a PS5, as they don't support HMB.

      • 8bitsperbyte on 14/06/2025 - 14:12
        +2

        Just to clarify: the 500GB, 1TB (this), and 2TB models of SN5000 are TLC. Only the 4TB model of the SN5000 is QLC.

    • whats up skip on 14/06/2025 - 13:33

      No on board DRAM, so it will likely be slower in real world applications as I believe your current one has DRAM.

      • vid_ghost on 14/06/2025 - 13:54
        +7

        The "NEW" WD Black SN7100 has no on board DRAM but its much faster then any 2 year old NVME that does have DRAM :) .. its even just as fast as the Samsung 990 Pro in everything but uses way less power to do it. Its even great in sustained writes where DRAM helps the most. I think that way of thinking is in the past now.. the new controlled designed specifically for dramless nvme drives has resolved their shortcomings

        • whats up skip on 14/06/2025 - 13:56
          +1

          I find it hard to believe that a non-DRAM drive can be faster, particularly for high IO operations as consumer flash is an order of magnitude slower than the DRAM. HMB helps, but it doesn't replace DRAM.

          • vid_ghost on 14/06/2025 - 13:58
            +6

            @whats up skip: Well believe it.. we are in 2025… The new controllers are specifically designed for DRAMless drives and are amazing.. they have produced some crazy results and super efficient NVME drives. YES its hard to believe but new Nvme drives with Large SLS Cache's are now just as good or better then NVME drives with DRAM.

            WD Black SN7100 2 TB Review - The New Best SSD
            https://www.techpowerup.com/review/wd-black-sn7100-2-tb/

            WD Black SN7100 SSD Review: The power efficiency king, with caveats
            https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/wd-black-sn7…

            • 8bitsperbyte on 14/06/2025 - 14:19
              +3

              @vid_ghost: Agree with everything you've said - DRAMless SSDs have improved so much that they can compete closely with DRAM SSDs.

              I just wonder whether DRAM SSDs still have an upper hand on latency. In this review of the SN580 (DRAMless), they have charts comparing its latency with SN850x (DRAM). Even the old 970 EVO Plus has much better latency than the SN580. I also don't know how this translates to real world performance.

              • FujinShu on 14/06/2025 - 15:01
                +1

                @8bitsperbyte: Random speeds and latency are pretty much good enough for most people nowadays, so you can’t go wrong with any modern NVMe SSD, even with QLC chips.

            • whats up skip on 14/06/2025 - 15:09
              +2

              @vid_ghost: May be the switch to DDR5 in most systems is making the difference, such that the HMB is now faster.

              It would be interesting to see how this DRAM less drives go in a USB enclosure where they can't use HMB.

            • bjt on 14/06/2025 - 15:48
              -1

              @vid_ghost: The SN7100 however is a 4 channel drive, whereas most of the high end DRAM drives are 8 channel.

          • Nom on 14/06/2025 - 15:19
            +3

            @whats up skip:

            particularly for high IO operations as consumer flash

            One key thing to remember is that the vast majority of consumers aren't doing any kind of high IO operations.

            For the "normal" user who boots Windows, edits some photos, plays some games etc then they're never going to notice the difference between modern drives - DRAM or otherwise.

    • 8bitsperbyte on 14/06/2025 - 14:09
      +3

      While the SN5000 is a mid-range SSD, it is much newer than the 970 EVO Plus. The 970 EVO Plus was high-end for its time, but its performance is starting to show its age.

      So I think the SN5000 will be faster than the 970 EVO Plus in most scenarios.

      I know we shouldn't take manufacturer's words at face value, but here are their data sheet figures:

      WD SN5000 1TB 970 EVO Plus 500GB
      Sequential Read 5,150 MB/s 3,500 MB/s
      Sequential Write 4,900 MB/s 3,200 MB/s
      Random Read 730,000 IOPS 480,000 IOPS
      Random Write 770,000 IOPS 550,000 IOPS
      Write Endurance 600 TBW 300 TBW

      However, the 970 EVO Plus should beat the SN5000 in heavy write sustained workloads (~850 MB/s vs ~500 MB/s).

      I'm not too sure of the latency between the two, but I think the 970 EVO Plus being a DRAM SSD has a slight edge there too.

      I think the answer to your question boils down to whether you need the extra capacity, because I don't think most typical users actually notice any performance improvements beyond a decent gen 3 SSD (like your 970 EVO Plus).

    • jpeg-jpg on 14/06/2025 - 14:14

      If your build has more than 1 NVMe slots, I’d just use both tbh. Keep your current one as a boot drive, put this as a secondary storage drive. Shouldn’t matter too much, if at all.

      • garage sale on 15/06/2025 - 08:38

        if you use bitlocker and uefi and swap slots it might ask for the encryption key which is a pain to type in.

    • Nom on 14/06/2025 - 15:14
      +1

      Would this be suitable for a boot drive in a new build?

      Yep - boot times barely change between the fastest and slowest modern drives, any modern drive is fine 👌

  • vid_ghost on 14/06/2025 - 13:52

    :) not too bad of a drive.. great for laptops

  • AeymothSky on 14/06/2025 - 13:55
    +1

    I really want my next drive to have DRAM

    • vid_ghost on 14/06/2025 - 14:07
      +6

      People need to get over the past technology where dram was needed to alleviate issues with SSD controllers.

      You will start to see DRAM drives phased out soon with how good the dramless controllers with Large SLS Cache's are these days.
      We may still see some DRAM drive's in enterprise SSD's for specific applications needs but as for desktops and workstations DRAM maybe a think of the past.

      • AeymothSky on 14/06/2025 - 14:12
        +1

        idk man…

        i got this shitty sp a55 ace,

        once it's cache runs out it goes to sub 20mb/s

        worse than me using my portable hdds.

        • Switchblade88 on 14/06/2025 - 14:21
          +4

          Silicon Power is about the worst possible brand.

          Even getting a used SSD of notable branding (Samsung, WD, Crucial etc) would be a better option than a new SP.

          • AeymothSky on 14/06/2025 - 14:23
            +3

            @Switchblade88: yep, one and done never SP again.

            2tb thought it was a deal, i brought it in 2023 but only unboxed it recently to put my steam library on it and yeh it takes forever to download n transfer past 20/30 seconds.

            i own a couple m.2,

            one wd blue as my boot drive n a samsung evo plus 970

            one pcie 4.0 drive which is some pcie 4.0 hp drive from one of those ozbarg deals in my ps5!

          • FujinShu on 14/06/2025 - 15:02
            +1

            @Switchblade88: SP SSDs are definitely decent if you’re bottlenecked by networking infrastructure (such as in a NAS).

          • heef on 14/06/2025 - 15:31

            @Switchblade88: Touch wood, and anecdotal, but I put a cheapo SATA3 Silicon Power 500GB SSD in a family member's office PC and its still going strong over 6 years later. It has been powered on 99% of that time too.

            • AeymothSky on 15/06/2025 - 06:57

              @heef: Look at previous ozbargain posts for the Silicon Power A55 2TB.

              I finally unboxed that drive that I have to put games on it but I'm keeping it strictly for steam gsmes / non important files…

              and sure it can work fine in an office pc not doing much that's quite different.

        • vid_ghost on 14/06/2025 - 17:08

          Thats an old drive old design

  • dualcore on 14/06/2025 - 15:28

    This versus MSI SPATIUM M450 1TB which is just $10 more? I do heavy sequential transfers of hundreds of gigabytes very often (video editing)

    • 8bitsperbyte on 14/06/2025 - 15:41

      The SN5000 is quite a bit better than the M450.

      Both are DRAMless TLC SSDs.

      WD SN5000 1TB MSI SPATIUM M450 1TB
      Sequential Read 5,150 MB/s 3,600 MB/s
      Sequential Write 4,900 MB/s 3,000 MB/s
      Random Read 730,000 IOPS 420,000 IOPS
      Random Write 770,000 IOPS 550,000 IOPS
      Write Endurance 600 TBW 600 TBW

      Also, I think I've seen the M450 sell for less than $85 recently.

      • dualcore on 14/06/2025 - 17:21

        You are looking at max speeds. Those are only really appropriate for little files.

        I'm 250GB to 500GB single files transferring files from/to my 512GB CFExpress B card all the time, and I see the SN500 drops to a pitiful, HDD-level of 300MB/s or so after you exhaust the fake SLC cache.

        Generally speaking, manufacturers can either tune their drive for max peak throughput at the cost of sustained throughput; or vice versa. The former looks better on a spec sheet, but it's never the bottleneck anyway. The latter is what matters when you are actually waiting around transferring files.

        • 8bitsperbyte on 14/06/2025 - 19:55
          +2

          You're right - those are peak speeds.

          TechPowerUp doesn't have a review of the SN5000, but they have tests of the older SN580 and the M450. Since the SN5000 is a minor refresh of the SN580 with the same NAND, I think we can extrapolate some results to the SN5000.

          Comparing the 1TB models of these two (SN580 and M450) in TPU's sustained tests:

          • the SN580 allocates a bigger portion of its capacity as pSLC cache than the M450: 341GB and 90GB, respectively.
          • when writing to pSLC cache, SN580 is faster than the M450: ~3,800 MB/s and ~3,200 MB/s, respectively.
          • after exhausting the pSLC cache, SN580 is much slower than the M450: ~400 MB/s and ~1500 MB/s, respectively.

          SN580's bigger pSLC cache allows it to write at its fastest speed longer than the M450. But the bigger cache also penalises the write performance of the SN580 more than the M450 after exhausting the cache and the drive enters a folding state.

          In other words, SN580 can write >3,000 MB/s for 341GB before slowing down to 400 MB/s. M450 can write >3,000 MB/s for only 90GB before slowing down to 1500 MB/s. This is all assuming the drive is mostly empty. As a drive fills up, it will have less pSLC. This effect affects SN580 sooner than the M450.

          I see the SN500 drops to a pitiful, HDD-level of 300MB/s or so

          I think that 300 MB/s figure in the ServeTheHome review is inaccurate, because the speed fluctuates between 300 MB/s and 550 MB/s during folding mode. I guess the actual average speed is around 400 MB/s during folding mode.

    • Meteor Anarcom on 14/06/2025 - 15:41
      +2

      Is the M450 even more? I'd still buy SN5000 if M450 is $10 less

  • Mattyjames on 14/06/2025 - 15:48
    -1

    Can this be used for PS5?

    • WhyAmICommenting on 14/06/2025 - 16:43

      Get something with a heatsink

      • AeymothSky on 14/06/2025 - 17:11

        it can but you need a heatsink attachment

      • Shaolinking on 15/06/2025 - 20:22

        Nah I’ve been using it without heatsink for over 2 years no issue at all. Heatsink don’t do much

  • Laziofogna on 14/06/2025 - 19:32
    -1

    Would this be suitable to replace the PS4 hdd? I'm a bit confused with the dimensions

    • combatant on 14/06/2025 - 20:39
      +1

      Need 2.5" SATA drive for PS4, this is nvme.

  • drasticmeasures1337 on 14/06/2025 - 20:04
    +1

    Thanks OP, got two, should be good enough for write cache on my Synology

  • motion2082 on 14/06/2025 - 20:43

    WD Blues have always been slow haven't they? Bit like Greens

    • Meteor Anarcom on 14/06/2025 - 21:23
      +2

      WD Green SSD is much worse, using flash drive grade components while WD Blue SSD uses capable components to be an M.2 SSD

    • 8bitsperbyte on 15/06/2025 - 11:49

      The current WD Green NVMe SSD offering is the SN3000 which uses inferior QLC NAND memory and has abysmal endurance - 150 TBW for the 1TB model. I can't find any reliable reviews of this SSD, but the fact that its own datasheet omits mentioning any random read/write performance seems like a red flag to me. I would avoid getting this SSD.

      The WD Blue NVMe SSDs are a large step up from the Green, with most models using TLC NAND memory. The endurance for the 1TB model is four times of the equivalent Green. And at least they mentioned random read/write performance on the datasheet.

  • furyou on 14/06/2025 - 23:02

    Do you get warning b4 ssd die? I have a Samsung 970 Evo 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME from 2018 as my boot drive.
    wow it's almost 10yr.

    • Nom on 14/06/2025 - 23:39

      Nope, usually no warning at all, just like mechanical hard drives.
      One day they work fine, the next day you power on the computer and the drive is cooked.

      That drive might last another 10 years with no issue. Or it might not…

    • AeymothSky on 15/06/2025 - 06:54

      check crystaldiskinfo

      and also to be honest i haven't had any of my m.2 or ssds die yet…

      but I'm worried some may soon or show signs that it could be.

      i believe samsung has some software to check too ?

      • furyou on 15/06/2025 - 10:12

        loked at crystaldiskinfo it has 90tb writes
        So I guess it's a third of the way in from the info above it has 300 tbw

        • AeymothSky on 15/06/2025 - 10:14

          Yeah!

          also just things to keep in mind if it's running at high temps with no heatsink or if you're pushing the drive constantly etc

          • furyou on 15/06/2025 - 11:31

            @AeymothSky: It's my boot drive, with win 11 and all the programs. I think it didn't come with a heatsink. What's considered pushing it? Is it worth getting a heat sink anyway I assume I could put it on a new Drive when this one finishes

            • AeymothSky on 15/06/2025 - 22:10

              @furyou: Actually now that i've re read your comment its a pcie 3.0 drive…

              I think the temps on those are fine, no need for a heatsink but it's completely optional if you wanted to have a heatsink if ya paranoid.

              Theres a way to check the temps pretty sure it shows in crystaldiskinfo as well.

              The main idea is to keep it below like 60 or something cause with these newer 4.0 drives they got throttled if you push it too hard hence why some motherboards come with built in heat sinks or spreaders.

              Up to you if you wanted to get an optional heatsink but it's not necessary for pcie 3.0 drives.

              Both of my m.2 drives are 3.0 and in my old motherboard it didn't run with any.

              Since i swithced to a msi b550 motherboard though they are covered by the built in heatsinks of the motherboard.

  • Shaolinking on 15/06/2025 - 20:24

    If I’m using as storage only playing 4K videos via plex, is this overkill or just fine? No need pro

    • Wheresmyspaceship on 15/06/2025 - 20:43

      Overkill, friend.
      Regular HDD totally fine for this purpose.

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