SanDisk

WD_Black SN8100 2TB

Name: WD_Black SN8100 2TB
Brand: SanDisk

WD_Black SN8100Launch price $279.99 (2TB without heatsink, suggested retail price (Tom's Hardware))

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3DMark Storage 8,100points#1 of 11 PCMark 10 Storage 7,694points#1 of 11 Sustained write 3,892MB/s#4 of 10 CrystalDiskMark sequential Read14,307MB/s#1 of 9

SanDisk's Gen5 flagship on the Silicon Motion SM2508 with Kioxia BiCS8 flash, and the fastest drive in Tom's 3DMark Storage and PCMark 10 traces when it was reviewed.

Against the line-up

3DMark Storage points

#1 of 11 · Tom's Hardware

1SN8100 2TB8,100
2Renegade G5 2TB7,337
3T705 2TB6,739
4T710 2TB6,647

PCMark 10 Storage points

#1 of 11 · Tom's Hardware

1SN8100 2TB7,694
2Renegade G5 2TB6,893
39100 Pro 2TB6,597
4T710 2TB6,583

Sustained write MB/s

#4 of 10 · Tom's Hardware

1T500 2TB4,066
2T710 2TB4,050
3T705 2TB4,029
4SN8100 2TB3,892
59100 Pro 2TB1,867

CrystalDiskMark sequential Read · MB/s

#1 of 9 · StorageReview; † another publication

1SN8100 2TB14,307
2Renegade G5 2TB14,302
3T710 2TB14,293
49100 Pro 2TB14,287

3DMark DirectStorage Storage to VRAM, GDeflate · GB/s

#1 of 8 · StorageReview

1SN8100 2TB26.1
2T710 2TB26
3T705 2TB25.8
49100 Pro 2TB23.8

LLM load time DeepSeek R1 32B · s, lower is better

#1 of 6 · StorageReview

1SN8100 2TB4.29
29100 Pro 2TB4.37
3T710 2TB4.46
4Renegade G5 2TB4.65
5990 Pro 2TB5.11
6P310 2TB5.48

The whole SSDs line-up side by side, with prices

Every benchmark

Quoted from the publications that ran them; we don't test hardware ourselves. Figures from different publications were run on different systems and scenes, so compare within a row's source.

CrystalDiskMark sequential

Setting	Result	Source
Read	14,937MB/s	KitGuru, Jun 5, 2025 AMD Ryzen 7 7700X, Gigabyte AORUS X670E Xtreme CrystalDiskMark 8 default test (SEQ1M Q8T1)
Read	14,307MB/s	Tom's Hardware, May 28, 2025 Intel Core i9-12900K Peak sequential read, 1MB QD8
Write	14,103MB/s	KitGuru, Jun 5, 2025 AMD Ryzen 7 7700X, Gigabyte AORUS X670E Xtreme CrystalDiskMark 8 default test (SEQ1M Q8T1)
Write	13,740MB/s	Tom's Hardware, May 28, 2025 Intel Core i9-12900K Peak sequential write, 1MB QD8

3DMark Storage

Setting	Result	Source
Standard run	8,100points	Tom's Hardware, May 28, 2025 Intel Core i9-12900K
Standard run	6,047points	StorageReview, May 13, 2025

PCMark 10 Storage

Setting	Result	Source
Standard run one source	7,694points	Tom's Hardware, May 28, 2025 Intel Core i9-12900K
Data Drive one source	8,644points	StorageReview, May 13, 2025

Sustained write

Setting	Result	Source
Standard run one source	3,892MB/s	Tom's Hardware, May 28, 2025 Intel Core i9-12900K Steady state: average MB/s after 15 minutes of 1MiB sequential writes at QD32

LLM load time

Setting	Result	Source
DeepSeek R1 32B one source	4.29s	StorageReview, May 13, 2025 Average of 10 loads

3DMark DirectStorage

Setting	Result	Source
Storage to VRAM, GDeflate one source	26.1GB/s	StorageReview, May 13, 2025

Specs

Capacity	2 TB
Interface	PCIe 5.0 x4, NVMe 2.0
Form factor	M.2 2280
Sequential read	14900 MB/s
Sequential write	14000 MB/s
Endurance	1200 TBW
Controller	Silicon Motion SM2508
NAND	Kioxia 218-layer BiCS8 TLC
DRAM cache	DDR4

From Tom's Hardware review spec table (SanDisk's figures) (2025-05-28).

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Sources

KitGuru (review)
StorageReview (review)
Tom's Hardware (review)

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