1TB WESTERN DIGITAL BLACK SN850 PCIE 4.0 M.2 SSD $180

So as we said earlier, our plucky little Core i5, supports PCIe

4.0 where the Ryzen 7 5700G does not. Advantage Intel. And we’re going to take advantage of that advantage with this speedy little number from Western Digital. A counterpart to the SN750 featured in the AMD build above, the SN850 packs in 1TB of high-speed PCIe 4.0 NAND Flash goodness for just under $180.

Performance is better than you’ll see in its predecessor PCIe 3.0 part. We’re talking sequential read speeds of 7,000 MB/s and writes at 5,300 MB/s. For IOPS? 1 million 4KB Random Read and 720K Random Write—even the failure rate is impressive at 1.75M hours of use. What’s not to love? www.westerndigital.com