WD Black SN750 NVMe Heatsink SSD Review: Speedy And Cool

Name: WD Black SN750 NVMe Heatsink
Brand: WD

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, June 04, 2019, 01:00 PM EDT

Performance Summary: The updated WD Black SN750 NVMe SSD with Heatinsk performed well throughout most of our benchmark suite. Read speeds are competitive with some of the top NVMe-based SSDs on the market and its write performance is among the best we’ve seen as well – in a few of the sequential write workloads, the WD Black SN750 finished at the top of the charts. With the exception of the HD Tune benchmark, which did not play well with this drive (save for the burst speed test) the WD Black SN750 also offered competitive latency characteristics and in the trace-based tests, the drive finished in about the middle of the pack, on-par with the Samsung SSD 970 EVO.

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Like last year’s model, the WD Black SN750 NVMe SSD does a number of things well. Sequential transfers are strong, especially in terms of writes, and latency and endurance are good too. The drives carry a healthy 5-year warranty and the “Heatsink” editions, like the drive we reviewed here, should eliminate any worry of thermal throttling in a properly cooled system.

That said, we got a couple of quizzical performance results, but we suspect WD will further optimize this drive with future firmware updates and performance is still strong overall. Pricing is also good, but not great, on the heatsink-adorned drives at least. The 1TB model featured here is available for about $249, which works out to approximately $.024 per gig. That’s just a touch higher than the Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus, which offers better overall performance. Opting for the standard SN750, however, currently knocks $25 off the price, which puts it somewhere in-between the 970 EVO and 970 EVO Plus, which is about what we’d expect. If your motherboard includes some M.2 cooling hardware, and your use-case would benefit from a drive with speedy writes and fast sequential transfers, the WD Black SN750 should be on your short-list of considerations. All things considered, the price on the Heatsink edition is a little steep in the current landscape, but if you don’t mind paying the premium, it certainly looks great and is much cleaner than any aftermarket cooling setup.


Built-In Cooling Strong Sequential Transfers Good Warranty and Endurance	Some Performance Anomalies Big Premium For Heatsink

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Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com