{"id":5368,"date":"2025-05-16T23:40:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T15:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/sandisk-launches-fastest-gumstick-ssd-yet-blocks-and-files\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T23:40:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T15:40:56","slug":"sandisk-launches-fastest-gumstick-ssd-yet-blocks-and-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/sandisk-launches-fastest-gumstick-ssd-yet-blocks-and-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandisk launches fastest gumstick SSD yet \u2013 Blocks and Files"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Sandisk just launched the SN8100 from its WD_BLACK range, currently the fastest M.2-format (gumstick) drive available.<\/p>\n

It is a PCIe Gen 5 drive and succeeds the PCIe Gen 4 WD_BLACK SN850X with twice the read speed, twice the power efficiency, and the same 8 TB\u00a0maximum capacity. The old drives used the BiCS4 3D NAND generation with 96 layers, whereas the new drive is built with BiCS8 218 layer chips, formatted as TLC (3 bits\/cell), like the SN850X.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Eric Spanneut, Sandisk VP of devices, stated: \u201cThe WD_BLACK SN8100 NVMe SSD with PCIe Gen 5.0 delivers peak storage performance for the most discerning users.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

That means the 2 TB and 4 TB versions deliver over 2.3 million random read IOPS, while sequential read and write bandwidth numbers are 14.9 GBps and 14 GBps respectively. A comparison with other suppliers\u2019 equivalent PCIe Gen 5 M.2 drives shows that Sandisk\u2019s new drive is the fastest in terms of sequential read and write performance:<\/p>\n

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Spanneut said: \u201cWhether it\u2019s for high-level gaming, professional content creation, or AI applications, high-performance users now have a PCIe Gen 5.0 storage solution that matches speed with power efficiency to help them build the ultimate gaming rig or best-in-class workstation, enabling them to play and create with next-level performance and reliability.\u201d<\/p>\n

The SN8100\u2019s average operating power is 7 W and it offers endurance of up to 2,400 terabytes written (TBW).<\/p>\n

Sandisk could potentially build an enterprise version of this drive, perhaps with QLC formatting and the hot-swappable E1.S form factor, and reach 16 TB of capacity, which would be impressive.<\/p>\n

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This SN8100 drive is available for purchase at sandisk.com<\/a> and select retailers worldwide in 1 TB ($179.99), 2 TB ($279.99), and 4 TB ($549.99)\u00a0capacities \u2013 US MSRP amounts. The heatsink-equipped version will be available this fall in the same capacities for $20 extra.\u00a0The 8 TB version, with and without a heatsink, is expected to be available later this year.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sandisk just launched the SN8100 from its WD_BLACK range, currently the fastest M.2-format (gumstick) drive available. It is a PCIe Gen 5 drive and succeeds the PCIe Gen 4 WD_BLACK SN850X with twice the read speed, twice the power efficiency, and the same 8 TB\u00a0maximum capacity. The old drives used the BiCS4 3D NAND generation […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blog"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}