Western Digital Black NVMe – WD’s Acquisition of Sandisk Made This Possible

Test Rig & Setup

For the test platform, we went with the Intel 8700K on the Asus Maximus X Formula with Corsair Vengeance running at 3200MHz CL 15. We are running a Thermaltake Triple Radiator cooling solution on the CPU to make sure we don’t get any throttling on the CPU. The operating system is Windows 10 Pro X64 with updates disabled. We make three runs at each test then average those three runs and report the results here. If we hit a run that we consider being far away from the norm we dismiss that result and run a 4th test. The 8700K has been delidded and liquid metal applied to be sure we get as low of temps as possible to ensure we do not have any thermal throttling issues.

NOTE: We fully update our test platforms for the most current patches same way most users would. So the detriment in storage performance is known and expected from some of the Spectre/Meltdown firmware and OS updates.

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