Western Digital WD_BLACK SN850 NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD Linux Performance
Written by Michael Larabel in Storage on 30 November 2020 at 11:36 AM EST. Page 4 of 5. 20 Comments.
With the Dbench benchmark the Optane 900p returned to the top spot while the WD_BLACK SN850 held a strong second place finish.
Likewise if running any PostgreSQL server off this consumer drive for a development workstation, SOHO setup, or other configuration, the WD_BLACK SN850 was a strong second place performer just behind the Intel Optane 900p.
The WD_BLACK SN850 also performed well for the MariaDB database server too.
To little surprise at this stage, the WD_BLACK SN850 also performed ahead of the other PCIe 4.0 NVMe solid-state drives with SQLite.