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WD_BLACK SN8100 2TB PCIe Gen 5.0 NVMe SSD Linux Benchmarks


Sandisk earlier this month announced the WD_BLACK SN8100 as what they claim is the current world's fastest PCIe Gen 5.0 NVMe SSD for consumers.

Sandisk earlier this month announced the WD_BLACK SN8100 as what they claim is the current world's fastest PCIe Gen 5.0 NVMe SSD for consumers. Using an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D desktop running Ubuntu 25.04 with the Linux 6.14 kernel, I carried out some fresh storage benchmarks with a variety of spare consumer NVMe SSDs in the lab. With not too often receiving NVMe SSD review samples, the selection is limited but enough to get an initial idea for the WD_BLACK SN8100 performance characteristics under Linux on this AMD Zen 5 desktop.

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