Western Digital Black 3D NVMe SSDs for PC gamers launched

[HEXUS]

M.2 2280 drive with read speeds of up to 3.4GB/s is available in 250GB, 500GB, 1TB capacities.

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[philehidiot]

Oh c'mon. They've just added gaming on there to widen their product range and probably add a little more to the price tag. This won't do anything for your frame rate unless you're coming from an exceptionally slow HDD and playing a game that loads parts of a giant map on the fly and your storage can't keep up. This is an insult to the intelligence of PC gamers. Any decent SSD will load levels faster than a HDD and you don't need one tuned for gaming.

This is akin to having a "gaming" CD drive back in the day when levels were loaded off the CD. You just need a faster one, not one supposedly better for gaming.

[DanceswithUnix]

Oh c'mon. They've just added gaming on there ...

If they called it "big price tag edition" it wouldn't sell as well, but tbh I can't think of anyone who *needs* that level of performance but at least gamers might *want* it and some have the money.

[SUMMONER]

No RGB LEDs ?¿ What were they thinking!

[DaMoot]

Samsung is still king. I'll still only buy Samsung NVMe drives due to the _actual_ no-compromise on speed and endurance. I still don't fully trust WD, even though I have a couple of their spinning drives.

Hard to shed the reputation of having 1 out of every 3-4 drives on the shelf statistically guaranteed to fail (WD; mid-90s to about 2005).

[Xlucine]

Samsung is still king. I'll still only buy Samsung NVMe drives due to the _actual_ no-compromise on speed and endurance. I still don't fully trust WD, even though I have a couple of their spinning drives.

Hard to shed the reputation of having 1 out of every 3-4 drives on the shelf statistically guaranteed to fail (WD; mid-90s to about 2005).

How bout the reputation of the 840 evo? That's a lot more recent, and relevant.

[ksdp37]

Oh c'mon. They've just added gaming on there to widen their product range and probably add a little more to the price tag. This won't do anything for your frame rate unless you're coming from an exceptionally slow HDD and playing a game that loads parts of a giant map on the fly and your storage can't keep up. This is an insult to the intelligence of PC gamers. Any decent SSD will load levels faster than a HDD and you don't need one tuned for gaming.

This is akin to having a "gaming" CD drive back in the day when levels were loaded off the CD. You just need a faster one, not one supposedly better for gaming.

Hear hear!!