WD

WD Red SN700 250GB

PCIe 3.0 x4M.2 2280TLCDRAM cache

The WD Red SN700 250GB costs $199.00 right now, or $0.796/GB. The 2TB is cheaper per gigabyte at $0.300/GB. Stepping up to the 500GB costs -$19.01 more. It is rated for 500 TBW, about 270 GB of writes a day for 5 years.

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WD Red SN700 250GB NVMe SSD

Where to buy the WD Red SN700 250GB

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  • Amazon
    $199.00
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Specifications

Speed (rated)

Sequential read
3,100 MB/s
Sequential write
1,600 MB/s
Random read (4K)
220K IOPS
Random write (4K)
180K IOPS
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x4

Endurance

Rated writes
500 TBW
Warranty
5 years

That is about 270 GB of writes a day for 5 years. A typical gaming PC writes a small fraction of that.

Drive

Capacity
250GB
Form factor
M.2 2280
NAND type
TLC
Cache
DRAM cache
DRAM size
512 MB
Double-sided
No

Identity

Part number
WDS250G1R0C-68BDK0

Does it fit a PS5?

No. It misses one of Sony's requirements: PCIe Gen4 or faster on four lanes, M.2, at least 5,500 MB/s, and no taller than 11.25 mm with a heatsink. Every drive that fits.

Quality score

How we score →

Scored for a gaming PC from what the maker publishes: read speed against the level games are built around, capacity (under 1TB loses points), cache type, endurance per terabyte and warranty. Speed above the floor adds almost nothing.

78/ 100 among NVMe SSDsValue 51.0 for the price
High confidence · 100% of specs known

Value weighs the score against the price, compared with other 250GB NVMe SSDs: this drive costs $796.00/TB against a typical $340.26/TB. At a typical price, value equals the score. Cheaper raises it and dearer lowers it, but price counts for less than quality.

Sequential read25/30known
Cache architecture25/25known
Capacity3/20known
Endurance per TB15/15known
Warranty10/10known

A factor we hold no value for scores zero rather than being skipped, so a drive we know little about never outranks a fully documented one. A low score with low confidence means undocumented, not bad. This is a specification index, not a benchmark, and it only compares NVMe SSDs with each other.

See every capacity of the WD Red SN700 on one page, or compare it with every other drive on the NVMe SSDs table.

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