Western Digital's WDBlueSN5000 SSD Now Available, with Details

TapTechNews on June 19, Western Digital's WDBlueSN5000 solid-state drive is now available on the official website, including four capacities of 500GB, 1TB, 2TB and 4TB, and there is no 8TB version that was previously announced to be launched in summer.

The WDBlueSN5000 solid-state drive is in the M.2 2280 form factor and is equipped with a PCIe Gen4 x4 interface, continuing to use the nCache 4.0 cache technology from the previous-generation product WDBlueSN580.

According to the German media ComputerBase report, the WDBlueSN5000 adopts a 4-channel master control scheme without external cache and supports the NVMe 1.4 protocol.

Among them, the three versions with smaller capacity use 112-layer BiCS5 TLC flash memory, while the 4TB version is equipped with 162-layer BiCS6 QLC flash memory, and the 8TB version to be released in the future is also expected to use QLC flash memory.

TapTechNews sorts out the specifications of the existing versions of WDBlueSN5000 as follows:

Capacity 500GB 1TB 2TB 4TB Flash Type TLC QLC Sequential Read 5000 5150 5500 Sequential Write 4000 4900 4850 5000 Random Read 460K 730K 650K 690K Random Write 770K 900K Write Endurance 300TBW 600TBW 900TBW 1200TBW Warranty Duration 5 years

Western Digital also provides the right to freely download the data migration software Acronis TrueImage for Western Digital for the WDBlueSN5000 solid-state drive.